A team of experts from the same company that gave us the laser printer and the computer mouse is making another major change to the workplace with reusable paper which erases itself after 24 hours so it can be used again

• a coating of photosensitive chemicals that turn white when hit by ultraviolet light or react to product text when scanned specific wavelength of light.


• The text can then be erased on command by feeding it through a special printer, or left to disappear on its own over a period of 24 hours.


• On the downside, the paper is apparently useless if it's been folded or wrinkled, or written on with a pen.


• Designers at Xerox believe that their reusable paper could save the world's offices at least seven trillion pages a year


• In tests they have managed to reuse the sheets "hundreds" of times.


• expected price for the paper or printer not available.

image courtesy of Xerox