She’s on the left
Is electronic paper ready to hit the big time?
Plastic Logic is set to unveil a version of electronic paper at Demo (a tech trade show in San Diego) today, one that the reeling newspaper industry desperately wants to succeed. The device still doesn’t have a name, nor will it have a price—we’ll have to wait until CES to find out what it costs (provided it doesn’t “leak”).
The paper updates wirelessly, and is able to store hundreds of papers of content, be it from books, newspapers, magazines, whatever.
For comparison’s sake, this new device from Plastic Logic has a screen that’s 2.5 times bigger than the Kindle, which wasn’t exactly hurting for screen real estate.
The mystery screen should be available in the first half of next year.
For the sake of newspapers worldwide, I hope something like this catches on. I wonder if it will be too late, and touchscreen super-compact laptops (hiptops?) will make it obsolete before widespread adoption.
If it had the right readability, a color version would be awesome. I’d love to see something like http://StanderdOnline.com be ported to a device like this.
Finally, I Like the news paper, I have friends who work at the news paper; and ever since I cancelled my subscription and went to the RSS feeds, they don’t like me so much. What I’ve wanted is something with a larger screen, at will fit in my bag, and won’t die on my way in to work. Maybe someone has finally made all my dreams come true. One final note, color would be awesome.