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Zink was developed by Polaroid and the Pogo was at CES.
The print quality was terrible but the concept great. Give it time.

Bravo LAArt. Beautifully explained, thank you.

Lighter and thinner means this uses less power, takes less to produce, contains less metal and plastic and overall reduces the carbon footprint.
Not that companies are making them thin for this reason, it's just the next race for distinction. Used to be bigger screens, not its thinner. Just about every company displayed a screen that's around a half inch thick. Not all are shipping them in 09, because of the economy.

I remember going to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago as a kid and talking to my father over the video phone. This was the early 1970s, and we believed every home would have this in just a few years.

Given the popularity of email and text messaging, I think we've actually gone the other way, toward a much less personal form of communication. Guess seeing each other isn't as desirable as the "futurists" of the past thought.

They take a long time to wash and dry. But because it's just one unit, you can put in a load in the morning, go to work and it's done when you come home. The LG model I had could be programmed to start up to 24 hours in advance, and timed to end close to when you'd return home so it the clothes wouldn't wrinkle.
It's not right for everyone, but if you don't have space for full size or stackables, I think they're a good option. Even if they require more maintenance than I would have liked.

I actually have that desk from Overstock (was going for similar look as the hotel). I love it and get great compliments. The lamp from Target is also on my wish list. It's part of their Global Bazaar, so I'm hoping it goes on sale soon as they clear out that merchandise.

I used to have an LG washer/dryer combo. When it worked, it was brilliant. But it often broke and the maintenance on it was nearly constant.
Strangely though, I sort of miss it now that I have larger, more conventional stackables. The smaller size and programmable features made it easy to almost never have any dirty clothes.

OLED's are nice and will be the next flat panel technology. But right now there are some color shifting problems -- think burn in issues from the early plasma day. Also very short life spans of just 3-4 years. At $2,500 for an 11 inch OLED, it's just something early adopters buy to show off.

So perfect hanging from the pot rack in my kitchen newly painted in Benjamin Moore's Anjou Pear!

I use MixIt CD stickers. There's a nice selection at the Container Store and select patterns at Seejanework.com.

There's just one drawback: some disc drives are overly sensitive (my new MacBook for one) and the label can actually cause the disc to be "unbalanced." I can only play CDs with them on an actual CD player. This also means I can't get the music from the disc to iTunes and my iPod. Sigh.