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If I recall correctly, the movie Children of Men had several scenes with animated newsstands in the background. I highly recommend seeing the film, if only for the background environment.

Here's a short of video of some of the advertisements and interfaces created for the film: http://www.foreignoffice.com/projekts/movies/movie_com.htm

Hm, link? I thought eink would be prohibitively expensive?

Edit - found one: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/video-esquire-e/

I don't think it is that bad, probably Wired only bashes it because they are envious.

One step closer into the world of Harry Potter. Well, almost

"Magic as a Metaphor for Ubiquitous Computing" - http://www.orangecone.com/ambidextrous_i6p36_37.pdf [pdf]

and

"Wizard School" - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/07/wizard-school.html

may be of interest to you.

This is indeed interesting and amusing. Thanks.