Everyday I hear about some new technology that is going to “change the way I consume media” or “reinvent how I gather information.” I feel like I have an illness and I’m hanging on to my multimedia lifeline fed through a Facebook Feeding Tube and RSS IV. One side effect of this digital epidemic is the slow painful death of printed media. Newspapers and magazines are going out of business as publishers desperately try to develop online media revenue to make up for what’s being lost offline. The New York Times for example only generates between 10 and 12 percent of total revenue through online channels.  Link

Recently I stumbled across a technology that I think could actually breath a little life back into paper. I don’t think that it’s going to save the industry, but admittedly it may “change the way you consume media” and quite possibly “reinvent how you gather information.”

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