Plastic Logic's Kindle Killer Wears Newspaper-like Look
Plastic Logic's Kindle Killer Wears Newspaper-like Look
Posted 09/09/2008 at 10:04pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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The print media is under constant pressure from its more dynamic electronic counterpart. As if the idiot box and online news outlets weren't enough, it has now got blogs and podcasts to contend with. It will have to evolve quickly, so as to keep its rivals at bay. Some companies see an opportunity in that imminent need for reinvention.
Plastic Logic happens to be on of those compamies. It has developed an electronic newspaper reader that uses a plastic display. The company will be showcasing the device at an emerging devices show in San Diego. It hasn't still named its electronic newspaper reader, which has a screen size twice that of Amazon's Kindle. Pocket Logic’s reader didn’t have to pay a hefty price for the increased screen size: it weighs only two ounces more than Amazon’s reader and is thrice as slim.
It replicates the look of a newspaper, but is also meant to display business documents. The company will make key announcements regarding its reader, including its price and details of content providers, during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Talcum X
September 10, 2008 at 8:10am
You cant take your electronic news reader and, get fish wrapped in in, swat the dog on the nose, or swath that fly on the window. Heaven forbid that they switch to this and have to use your copy of MPC to do those things. Blasphemy!
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sirphunkee
September 10, 2008 at 10:22am
But what I need to know is if you use this to wrap up an old fish and call it change, will it still stink after 8 years? I read today that paper seems to have that shortcoming :(
Keith E. Whisman
September 10, 2008 at 12:05am
So where is the roll up ellectronic paper that was bragged about so much a few years ago? Sure this is interesting but devices like this cost way too much to replace paper. I believe that a simple roll up design like what was proposed a few years ago would be as cheap as it was suggested a few years ago. Perhaps that is the reason we don't have a cheap device is because they don't want to make a cheap device.
sirphunkee
September 09, 2008 at 11:22pm
wow...that blue shirt on that blue background made my eyes go all funny
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