Emerging technologies

While researching for our HP project I came a across a few developing technologies that may have an impact on future designs.
The first deals with power. Marin Soljacic, like all of us, was annoyed with having to find his charger for his cell phone and then go plug it in at an inconvienent time. So, he and his colleagues discovered how to use magne tic resonance coupling to power a 60 watt bulb wirelessly 2 meters from their coil. Using this application, they are working on technology that will automatically charge small electronics and even laptops.

Another technology that is up and coming is electronic paper. Like paper, electronic paper is flexible, but unlike day to day paper, it is made up of microcapsules that carry charges that are bonded to steel foil. Depending on whether charge is positive or negative the capsule will carry either a black or white pigment. Together the microcapsules with carry an image much like a newspaper.

The last technology is best discribes by this video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xptspGpkc
I think it has some great capabilites for advertizing products with out having a display model in the future when
they can make the hardware on this technology less massive.