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PC-based Control, Software and Bus Trendsdisplays are about 75 dpi. Xerox hopes the technology will be flexibleenough to create electronic books, newspapers and even wallpaper.Xerox is also working on DataGlyphs, which is a technology forprinting machine-readable data on paper documents. The glyphs areembedded in the documents. DataGlyphs can encode text, data, orgraphics on plain paper. This can then be scanned into a computer andused for bringing up a Web site or printing documents. This process isalso known as smart paper.E Ink is an electronic ink technology that uses electrophoretic processesdeveloped by the MIT Media Lab. E Ink is an ink-like materialthat can change color using an electric field. E Ink may appear inchangeable traffic warning signs and store displays.Both E Ink and Gyricon may be used for creating electronic books.Most of these machines, which can download material from the Web,use conventional LCDs. The E Ink or Gyricon processes provides anelectronic book that is thinner, lighter and more readable compared to aLCD.A related electronic book concept is underway in a project calledFolio at the Interaction Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon University’sInstitute for Complex Engineered Systems. Folio’s display is made up of8 hinged, full-color polymer LCD panels that fold up to fit in a pocket.Unfold it once and it becomes a writing pad, unfold twice and it becomesan electronic book or Web browser. Unfolding it completely andit is large enough to display maps or work as a large-scale PC screen.As digital characters begin to look and act more human, actors inmovies are becoming increasingly digital. Automated response bots cansimulate human conversation or take human form in computer programs.The Internet will become an increasingly larger source of videocontent and it will produce high-quality digital video.Digital CharactersAnimated characters will continue to look and act more real. Muchof this visual realism is due to 3-D hardware capabilities of the computeroperating platform. The Intel Pentium chip has an instruction set calledStreaming SIMD Extensions (SSE). It is designed to speed 3-D geometrycalculations in applications that use the extensions. Many SSE instructionsmatch those found in AMD’s 3DNow!©2001 by The Fairmont Press, Inc. All rights reserved.