Rupert Murdoch is talking to Microsoft for a good reason - and I think I saw the reason at the recent X Media conference in Sydney.
Light-sensitive ink on a page - like a newspaper page (flexible, foldable, flickable) - with moving pictures just like a Harry Potter newspaper.
That's what August de los Reyes (Principal Design Director for Microsoft Surface) showed in his presentation.
I asked him whether it was really possible and he said the technology already exists. e-papers update themselves.
You may even get it displayed on your glasses!
So who's going to carry around a tablet?
If you can't get it on a phone or a computer/TV screen-of-the-future, it will be obsolete.
Here's a 2007 video:
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Well, maybe those who read Sports Illustrated will want tablets. (Meow!)
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The really big next thing that's a bit of a worry really is the advent of pixels that are cameras - that's what Microsoft is working on says August. Google it and there's nothing.