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The Plastic Logic E-Ink Reader is looking fine...

September 18th 2008 03:07
Plastic Logic E-Reader thinner than Kindle
The Amazon Kindle came on the scene like a sex machine, threatening to burst the seams of all the magazines. It was a wireless E-Reader, a bit of fancy technology that uses e-ink.


I love e-ink. It's a fantastic idea... instead of using pixels, like your laptop screen, e-ink uses tiny coloured balls to render images. Your laptop gives off light, which is straining on your eyes, and uses a lot of power; in contrast, e-ink reflects natural light, so it feels like reading paper.

And you know I like reading on paper!

We've been waiting for years to get a decent E-Reader, and the Amazon device was the first one to make a push, but it was criticized for being ugly and cumbersome to use.


Plastic Logic's device, still unnamed, is thinner and better looking than the Kindle, as you can see in the photo above, from this Wired review.

"Plastic Logic's reader demonstrates a balance between size and convenience. Though in the gadget world, much of the craze has been over "smaller and more powerful" devices, many might appreciate that Plastic Logic's reader is longer, wider and thinner than comparable devices, making it easier to read and carry around.


The device's backplane is composed of plastic -- which could eventually be made flexible once third-party manufacturers adapt their electronics to sustain bending, Plastic Logic officials told Wired.com. On the front, the device features a touchscreen for turning pages, menu navigation and typing notes with a virtual keyboard."

I'm definitely down with a flexible plastic device... we desperately need an E-Reader with that kind of functionality, like you'd see in futuristic sci-fi flicks.

Sadly, though, the device does not have Wi-Fi enabled, so it's lacking that function, which is the Kindle's main selling point.

Are we almost there, yet?

No - I'm betting that Apple will come out with one, link it to iTunes, and knock out the competition.

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Comment by TimmyH

September 25th 2008 06:14
It's a good idea hey...

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