Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper 204
Lucas123 writes "The same Xerox lab that brought us Ethernet, the GUI and the mouse has demonstrated paper that can be reused after printed text automatically deletes itself from its surface in a day. Instead of trashing or recycling after one use, a single piece of paper can be reused up to 100 times. 'The paper contains specially coded molecules that create a print after being exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from a thin bar in a printer. The ultraviolet bar itself is very small, so it can be used in mobile printers. The technology could also be useful for network printing.'"
Hacking the paper? (Score:5, Interesting)
But will the paper start to jam after a few uses? (Score:4, Interesting)
100 times is a lot of it to get jammed in the printer after a few uses.
Paper IS already "eco friendly" (Score:2, Interesting)
Ultra violet? (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in the 1980s we used UV erasable EPROMS. With the correct UV lamps you could erase them in seconds or minutes. If you had natural light coming onto your desk then they'd get erased, but it would take a few days. Many an engineer was stumped as to why his circuit that worked fine yesterday was behaving badly today.
Now the same problem will extend to accountants!
newspaper? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How can you look in to the past? (Score:2, Interesting)
OFC if your printing secrets on reusable paper your then given to your enemies, you probably have other problems.
If they can extend the lifetime of the pages to month or maybe even years, this would really help academic institudes and the such, where lots of stuff gets printed but is rarely needed for more than a couple of weeks.
Re:Ultra violet? (Score:3, Interesting)