Steve Jobs, are you reading this?

You may have heard the buzz about Apple's forthcoming device that could possibly be a tablet screen dealy.
Well, I've had an idea that's even better, and I've been thinking about it for a couple of years. So, I am going to tell you all about it now, so when "they" invent it, I can say that I thought of it first.

In my line of work, we use a lot of paper to print floor plans and the like; and large too, as in 24" x 36" for the largest sheets. The problem is, we don't just print these off at the end, but we print "check sets" for meetings, mark-up's, to see it better, etc. Sometimes, to save paper, we just print off 11x17 size, but it is still a lot of paper that we go through.

I think what we need is Electronic Paper (ElPa). This could be a device that is the same size as the paper we need (11x17, 18x24, 24x36), and that we can transfer our plans to at full size...kinda like a full-sized PDF. It would look real, as if it was printed, and it would have the ability to let us write on it with special pens, and then record those mark-ups onto the PDF.

It would be able to roll up like paper, but it would stay flat when un-rolled. It could hold multiple documents, so one ElPa Device could be used at a meeting to look at all your documents. Just minimize the ones you don't want, and maximize the ones you do. This would also ease the hassle of flipping through large sheets.

Wouldn't that be nice! Who knows, maybe it's already been done.