RADIO NEWSPAPERS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4010, 28 July 1931, Page 2

RADIO NEWSPAPERS

SELF-PRINTING JOURNALS FORECAST A radio newspaper in every home that plucks its news out of the air, is foretokl in an article in the ‘ American Magazine.’ “ Even now it is a laboratory fact. Inside a box small enough to he placed on a table or in an ordinary clothes cupboard is a miniature printing press and motor, controlled by radio impulses sent out from a broadcasting station and powered by the current from a light socket. News dispatches and photographs are put on the air by radio in the usual way. The radio-sensitised prinlerv in the box picks them up and prints them, in any size or style of type, on a sheet of paper that is fed through from a roll. It works silently, without human attention. The printing and photographs are clear-cut. There is no thought that the radio newspaper will supplant the present newspaper, but it will supplement it just. as radio broadcasting does now. TALKING BOOKS. Near by the radio newspaper in our home theatre will ho the talking book, winch reads itself aloud. Books of the future will be published in two forms. The first will be the hook as we know it. The second will be an audible edition. The entire narrative will be recorded on a film by a trained reader, perhaps by a great actor, perhaps by the author himself. Placed in a reproducer the book will read itself with all humour, pathos, and dramatic emphasis that the author intended to put into it.”