embedded paper :possible?

[Thom Gillespie]

I'd leave the cataloging for others. I'd go for the patent 8-)

--Thom



On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Barbara Stewart wrote:

> I had a dream last night that I sent a snail-mail card to a friend. I 
> spent a lot of time embedding a quasi-Java applet of a rollercoaster into 
> the card, and also embedded a tiny recording of carnival sounds. I awoke 
> and thought : would this be possible to do at some future date? Would 
> there be a market for special "cards" or even "books" with a specific 
> embedded movable graphic or video? I know that musical cards are more 
> common, and a delight to receive. Why not, say, a remembrance of a happy 
> event (wedding, birth announcement, etc.) ? I can imagine a lovely 
> embedded wailing baby on a birth announcement card.
> 
> Possible?  And...how would we catalog such a thing? 300 field please?
> 
> Barbara Stewart
> (quite aware that it's not Friday, but unable to alter her dream patterns 
> to suit the list moderators ;-)    )
>