One reason why it should be mandatory for formats that become IETF or other standards to be generally released from all patent holders as a matter of principle. Unfortunately, the opposite is rather the case.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there is the original article.
Interesting device: There are plenty of mass storage devices for images, some also with display of stored images. But this one is special because it can also display the Nikon NEF format - i.e. the RAW images from Nikons.
Excerpts from A New Kind of Science - very interesting images and explanations about them - especially if you're interested in cellular automata and the complexity of their results. It reminds me of experiments I did in school with cellular automata - the results were often just as fascinating as exploring the Mandelbrot set, but much easier to perform on computers with limited resources. I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.