They move tomorrow’s news to the coffee cup – New Technology

New Technology met KTH students who want to make carton projection screen.

In a new collaboration between Stockholm University’s journalism program, the MSc program in Media Technology at KTH and the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, students have explored the future media landscape.

On 17 December, it was time for presentation at KTH in Stockholm. Among the different concepts that the students developed were services that adapt news flow after the user’s schedule, interests and geographical location, reports to custom scent experiences and voice guided, interactive podcasting.

Olof Lindman, Åsa Linder, Johanna Sjoberg and Lucas Maupin , students at KTH media programs showed off their project Packaged Stories, a concept to show the film on various types of paper packaging. An example of how it might work out can be to a person who bought the coffee in paper cup can watch a video about how the beans to the coffee produced, directly on the mug. (See example from the presentation movie above).

– We began by reflecting on what we think is a likely future in this range. What trends do we see? And we believe that the production of cardboard will increase, says Åsa Linder.

The reasons behind this development is to the global living standards rise, with more consumption and e-commerce as a result.

– In a global world is more around the world and then you need some kind of container. And the containers that we think will win the box. Plastic is a little too expensive to produce and to some extent are not environmentally friendly, and steel, it is offset to be on the big boats, the gigantic containers, says Olof Lindman.

According to him, need to surface showing the moving picture, a circuit covered bioplastfilm, nor be costly:

– On an industrial scale will be the same cost as the press box.

Still, it is difficult to say how long time is left until a prototype could be made, but the project is fully technically possible to realize.

– All the technology that we would like to use is today, but to integrate and create such a small display at a reasonable price, it’s hard to say when it can go, says Olof Lindman.

The students, however, has begun a dialogue with wood and cardboard business about their ideas.