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Paper Shredder Reinvented In Sculpture-Like Paper2Dust Concept

Paper shredders are usually simple and utilitarian-designed boring boxes, which may be why Bluelarix Designworks went to town on this reimagining of the machine. Paper2Dust is bizarrely sculptural, and works by having a "fast turning cord" spinning inside the top that literally rips the paper you slide into it into dust. The glass lid of the machine lets you see how pulped the paper's getting—when you're satisfied you simply release the power button, and the dustified paper slips down into the machine's leg. There's the usual safety features of course, but if it ever made it into a real product I think its selling power would be the therapeutic value of seeing hated paperwork being vaporized. [Yanko Design]

Blurb Introduces Premium Paper

Blurb, the creative publishing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality books, announced a new Premium Paper offering. The 100-pound text silk-finish paper is 35% heavier than Blurb’s standard paper, and features improved opacity and superior print quality – two commonly requested upgrades from Blurb’s professional users. Premium Paper is available to all Blurb users across Blurb’s Global Print Partner Network, which supports over 60 countries with access to 80 HP Indigo presses.

08/11/14 Discovery of Folk Arts -- Women Paper Cutters of Countryside

One of China's most popular folk-arts is paper-cut. Its origin should be closely connected with the invention of paper during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.). Paper-cut are used for religious purposes, for decoration and as patterns.

Effective Keyword Search for Valuable LCAs Over XML Documents

This paper studies the problem of effective keyword search over XML documents. The paper begins by introducing the notion of Valuable Lowest Common Ancestor (VLCA) to accurately and effectively answer keyword queries over XML documents. The paper then proposes the concept of Compact VLCA (CVLCA) and compute the meaningful compact connected trees rooted as CVLCAs as the answers of keyword queries. To efficiently compute CVLCAs, the paper devises an effective optimization strategy for speeding up the computation, and exploit the key properties of CVLCA in the design of the stack-based algorithm for answering keyword queries.

Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA

cheezitmike writes "According to a story in the Washington Post, 'Maryland and Virginia are going old school after Tuesday's election. Maryland will scrap its $65 million electronic system and go back to paper ballots in time for the 2010 midterm elections. In Virginia, localities are moving to paper after the General Assembly voted last year to phase out electronic voting machines as they wear out. "The battle for the hearts and minds of voters on whether electronic systems are good or bad has been lost," Brace said. The academics and computer scientists who said they were unreliable "have won that battle."'"

New Panasonic White Paper Offers a Guide to Using ?Proxy Video: From A To Ipod?

Panasonic Broadcast announces the availability of a new educational white paper entitled “Proxy Video: From A to iPod.� Download the paper at http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/p2-hd/white-papers.asp.

Samsung Forges E-Paper Out of Nanotubes

Samsung Electronics and Unidym have demonstrated the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper. Carbon nanotubes have extraordinary electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties. The EPD has distinct advantages over today's standard flat panel displays. They have very low power consumption and are highly readable even in direct sunlight. Because the EPD uses carbon nanotubes, applications can include e-paper and displays that are very thin. Samsung and Unidym showed off a 14.3-inch display, but the technology can be used for touch screens, point-of-sale terminals, games, portable computers, cell phones, personal digital assistants, and other hardware.

Video: The future of... Paper

It’s a possible fix for the reams and reams of paper that are printed, used briefly, and then tossed everyday. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes us inside the Palo Alto Research Center where scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing the paper to be used dozens of times.

XP SP3 and Vista SP1 XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack

Just as Silverlight is Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash, so is XPS a format designed to rival PDF. On November 4, 2008, Microsoft made available for download an update to version 1.0 of the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack, a package set up to enable Windows users to access, read and manage XPS files. The original bits for the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0 were served in April 2008 as a way to circumvent the need for .NET Framework 3.0.

Samsung's New Carbon Nano-Tube Color E-Paper

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that Samsung and Unidym have shown the world's first carbon nanotube-based color e-paper. Interestingly, the new film is electrically conductive while remaining almost completely translucent and only 50 nanometers thick. "The company also mentions that the EPD [electrphoretic displays] has important advantages over conventional flat panel displays. EPDs have very low power consumption and bright light readability, which means that even under bright lights or sunlight, the user would be able to view the display clearly. Furthermore, since the device uses the thin CNT films, applications can include e-paper and displays with thin, flexible substrates. Power consumption is lowered due to the EPD's ability to reflect light and therefore able to preserve text or images on the display without frequently refreshing.

Samsung shows first carbon-nanotube based display

Earlier this week in Korea, Samsung demonstrated a working e-paper display, or more accurately, a color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) and the world's first to use carbon nanotubes. At 14.3 inches, it is among the largest e-paper displays in existence. Developed in conjunction with Unidym, which created the carbon nanotubes for the prototype, the display is energy-efficient and doesn't require backlighting while remaining highly visible under direct sunlight. As with other e-paper displays, images are retained on the screen without requiring energy to constantly refresh it.

Artists' NY Times Spoof Proclaims End to Iraq War

Taking the train to class this morning, I had a somewhat curious encounter. A man standing next to me held up a NY Times paper with the headline IRAQ WAR ENDS. Having read the NY Times that morning, I knew that this was not the day's headlines, and over the course of the entire ride, I kept quizzically peeking over at his paper in an effort to figure it out. He held the paper up in such a performative way, that I sensed something was askew. As I walked from the subway, I checked my phone and read, in a mass email from artist Joseph DeLappe, that a group of artists had created a spoof version of today's times announcing an end to the Iraq War, and distributed it around New York City. Brilliant. And so perfectly serendipitous. You can view a website for the project here.

Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype

Barence writes "Microsoft has literally added another dimension to its touchscreen table technology Surface. The new table projects an image through the table itself, so that any translucent material (such as tracing paper or perspex) held above the Surface screen displays a different image to what you see on the table's display. This means you can have a satellite image of a town on the table, and have the street names projected on to a piece of paper that the user holds above the map. Or you could have a photo of a car, with the tracing paper displaying images of its innards."

US may need to insure wholesale deposits-Barclays Capital

SINGAPORE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The United States may need to insure wholesale deposits to ease the credit crisis and restore confidence because the collapse of Lehman Brothers has damaged trust among institutional investors, Barclays said on Thursday. 'What happened in September was the wholesale equivalent of an old fashioned bank run,' Laurence Kantor, head of global research at Barclays Capital, told reporters in Singapore. 'The markets are still unwinding the damage from Lehman.' He said the commercial paper market lost $200 billion in two weeks after Lehman collapsed as investors turned to safer government paper, and even after two months private investors are still reluctant to return to the commercial market. 'If you look at the commercial paper market today, it's improved mainly because the Federal Reserve is buying commercial pape

Paper Route, 'Empty House': Free MP3 of the Day

Southern indie rock, when being true to both its Southern-ness and indie rock-ness, can be a darn lovely thing. Joining the likes of MMJ and the Whigs in this dashing duality are Paper Route, blenders of wide-open vocal spaces and gleaming guitar melodies.

ProPay White Paper Outlines Risks, Challenges and Solutions of Payment Card Transactions for Mobile Businesses

ProPay White Paper Outlines Risks, Challenges and Solutions of Payment Card Transactions for Mobile Businesses

White Paper on Pandemic Preparedness Planning for Systemic Banking Organizations

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Fed has issued a White Paper on Pandemic Preparedness Planning for Systemic Banking Organizations.

Panasonic White Paper Offers Guide to Using Proxy Video

Panasonic Broadcast announces the availability of an educational white paper entitled “Proxy Video: From A to iPod.”

True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support: Edison Group White Paper

Download the Edison Group white paper, "True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support" and discover how your organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Edison believes that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support should give enterprises the full confidence they need to run all their core business, mission-critical, and risk-sensitive applications on the Linux platform. Oracle Unbreakable Linux features and benefits include:

True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support: Edison Group White Paper

Download the Edison Group white paper, "True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support" and discover how your organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Edison believes that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support should give enterprises the full confidence they need to run all their core business, mission-critical, and risk-sensitive applications on the Linux platform. Oracle Unbreakable Linux features and benefits include:

True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support: Edison Group White Paper

Download the Edison Group white paper, "True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support" and discover how your organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Edison believes that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support should give enterprises the full confidence they need to run all their core business, mission-critical, and risk-sensitive applications on the Linux platform. Oracle Unbreakable Linux features and benefits include:

True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support: Edison Group White Paper

Download the Edison Group white paper, "True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support" and discover how your organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Edison believes that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support should give enterprises the full confidence they need to run all their core business, mission-critical, and risk-sensitive applications on the Linux platform. Oracle Unbreakable Linux features and benefits include:

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