Crapgadget CES edition, round 13: e-paper display actually paper
By Ryan Block 
posted Jan 11th 2008 4:52PM
posted Jan 11th 2008 4:52PM
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That's the crappiest thing I've ever seen. It looks like someone taped a picture to the back of an old RFID badge.
Wow.
It's a credit card sized mp3 player. Why does everyong keep referring to e-paper?
@Neoprimal, yeah, I just don't understand why no one else can see that it is a credit card sized DAP.
Better yet an e-paper sized DAP. The business card is taped on for a size comparison.
Thumb ring or not, this one you can knock!
lmao!
Really? HA! That's some hilarity right there. Maybe it comes with rub-on letters to display which song you're 'listening' to.
I'm buying one for the "unusual degree space function" and "switch-off memory."
I've seen this before, though. Isn't it the iSuck?
Really? HA! That's some hilarity right there. Maybe it comes with rub-on letters to display which song you're 'listening' to.
Crapgadget indeed.
FINALLY! A player that supports MP1, 2 AND 3 files!
Fess up guys, did you find this one in a toilet?
PS Sorry for the spam, never know if the thing still goes thru after displaying a 'connection error' page. alas.
thank god it supports those wmv music files I've got.
If you used an open standard to encode your files, you wouldn't have to worry about it.
lol, fail @ Andir3.0
no. The industry failed. ogg ftw!
Hah! Andir3.0 can't spot sarcasm when it slaps him in his apple-polishing face.
And just because a standard is "open" doesn't mean it's "adopted by everyone". Be less of a tool, Andir.
You all missed the goddamned point. WMV isn't audio, it's video!
Why would they present this to the scrutiny of the press when blatantly all it's good for is fobbing it of to those who don't know better.
I think they just made this up to redeem themselves after repeatedly posting things people would actually like under crapgadget.
i want one, it's all papery!
Yay, a sensible crapgadget news item!
do want!
omg,the best news ever. does it play doom, by the way?
WHOA... "unusual degree space function"!!!
MOAR DO WANT!!!
Wow, yeah, that's pretty cheeseball. I agree with the comment that it looks just like an RFID card with a picture taped to it.
they missed the feature that the screen can flip over so you can write notes on the back of it.
It also comes with a paper flipbook for watching videos.
Your comment is drenched in winsauce.
yes
i made something very similar in the 3rd grade. they will be hearing from my lawyers
Well, lads, you DO KNOW ME, right?
And I love paper!
Finally!! Epaper that looks like real paper!!! Now the Amazon Kindle Version 2 will be way better, and in color!!! (hold on a second) I have just been informed by my sibling that I'm a dumbass for thinking this is real e-paper. awaiting Engadget's response on the validity on this accusation.
(I know it's fake)
tool.
Screw you
Introducing the new iPod Paper!
Gets good battery life though.
I like how it supports WMV
"Depending on your printer quality, resolution may vary."
No MP4 support! This sucks, all my musics are in MP4
Isn't MP4 a video format?
As is WMV.
Love it! Where can I get one?!
I couldn't tell from the "spec sheet" on the gadget's website if this supports 14.4kbs modems for dial up handshaking to the internets? I've already ordered one through my aol account. I guess I can just hope and
pray. I also couldn't tell if this was "Made in the U.S.A." but I'm assuming it is. You know, judging from its quality construction.
Video Productions Las Vegas town
http://www.hiproductions.com
I couldn't tell from the "spec sheet" on the gadget's website if this supports 14.4kbs modems for dial up handshaking to the internets? I've already ordered one through my aol account. I guess I can just hope and
pray. I also couldn't tell if this was "Made in the U.S.A." but I'm assuming it is. You know, judging from its quality construction.
Video Productions Las Vegas town
http://www.hiproductions.com
LOL whoever is running a 1993-dated spambot: You need to update it man
These pages smell like a latrine at halftime. Most of you loafers poo-poo the crapgadget and swish right by the flushwriting. What is this excrement called? Who excreted it? What market do they intend to drop it into? How many yuen are they straining to squeeze out of it? Has it passed into production runs, or is it a prototype that has yet to be squeezed into its consumer form? You can't tell from one picture and a glib comment whether a product is going to sink or float. Don't eliminate the crapgadgets yet -- they could start some real movements!
It emulates GameCube so you can play Paper Mario...
mehn... what does it take to get a booth at CES cos I need to get on engadget real bad..seems like everyones doing it.
seriously tho' WTF?!?
But what happens when we go to "rip" our songs onto the thing?
Is it SSD?
Judging by the photo, I won't touch this "thorny issue".
Meh... at least the OS isn't Vista
emmm wat happens when the scotch tape loses the stickiness after a day or half? do we have to send it back for replacement tapes?
It's not user-replaceable tape. You send it back to Apple, and you get new tape for $99.
did anyone notice it has a free U disk?? wow!!
What I don't understand is this - it's not free to have a booth at CES. Why would you waste your time showing up with a product that you can't even *demo*? Sad and pathetic, and worthy of my vote.
Awesome, now I have an excellent base for my Post-It Note flip book archive, and it even supplies the sound tracks. Everything can have a use, you just have to find it.
So whats an 'unusual degree space function'?. I imagine the unusual degree is the angle the table is at because one leg is shorter than the others, and the space function is that you can place the gadget under this leg to stop the table wobbling.
How about 'switch off memory'? So it remembers that i switched it off. Glad it has that. I'm sick of every other gadget i have forgetting i switched it off and staying on and wasting the battery
"So whats an 'unusual degree space function'?. I imagine the unusual degree is the angle the table is at because one leg is shorter than the others, and the space function is that you can place the gadget under this leg to stop the table wobbling."
LMAO you made my day man
You ALL need to buy one of these! It's, It's It's AMAZING! Never seen anything like It I have to admit!!!!
What a pile of Chinese crap!!!!!
I'm not sure why the negativity. This is a new technology called e-paper. I heard about it before. It's supposed to look just like paper except the "images" or text on it can change electronically. I haven't seen it in person yet, but supposedly alot of companies are looking into using it like to replace newspapers and stuff (or have newspapers update throughout the day). They'll look pretty similar to normal regular paper newspspers.
Now, I'm not sure why the tape, but it could be to make it look more like real paper, or that's just the temporary way they mount it.
This is obviously a MOCK-UP of a product, not the actual product!
Do you guys wander around Best Buy picking up the demo cell phones wondering why they won't dial out, or why the display doesn't change, as well?
It's a concept for what the final product should look like. It's poorly done, but that's what we're seeing here.