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October 28, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

E-notes: Like Post-its, only reusable

by Leslie Katz
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E-note (Credit: Sequoia Design)

Does the world really need Post-it 2.0? Ask those of us with Post-its habitually plastered on our monitors, walls, backs, and foreheads, and we'd probably be hard-pressed to come up with suggestions for improving the classic attachable notes.

Still, the designers at Sequoia Studio have come up with an inventive concept product called E-notes. The notes use tactile and flexible electronic paper technology and are powered by a solar captor. They can be stuck and unstuck to surfaces easily using a glue inspired by the adhesive that keeps the gravity-defying gecko in place. The best part? They can be reused, thus saving paper.

E-notes even have a visual alarm/organizing function that changes colors. That we like.

Watch a more detailed explanation of the product here. But as Yanko Design cautions in its post on the subject: whatever you do, don't call it a digital Post-it!

Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie.
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by yanchineseguy October 28, 2008 10:15 AM PDT
So, when will this thing go on sale?
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by John_Johnson October 28, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
I'm guessing that the date they enter in that video (2015) is when we might actually see this product...?
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by The-Gdog October 28, 2008 1:41 PM PDT
How thick are they-I mean surely they are not paper thin?
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by John_Johnson October 28, 2008 3:39 PM PDT
It occurs to me - there's no way this product is anything other than pure imagination. How would you ever get the whole thing to change colors? If it was possible to do that, wouldn't that technology hit (and be much more useful) for e-readers before they put it to use in so mundane an application?
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by Vonmoldy October 28, 2008 8:22 PM PDT
They require one minute of light a day to store the date time! So they are pointless if you put them in a binder or something.
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