New E-Readers
The leading electronic readers, Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader, have greatly increased interest in e-books but share a couple of limitations: they are rigid, and they display only in black and white.
Earlier this year, startup Plastic Logic introduced an e-reader that uses polymer electronics to create a flexible display that is the size of a standard sheet of paper. Coming next are two e-readers that will offer some benefits previously missing: one features a color display, and the other is a pocket-size gadget with a screen that rolls up.
Roll-up Reader
The Readius, made by Philips spinoff Polymer Vision of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is the size of a cell phone and sports a rollable screen that stows away. The display uses the same black-and-white microcapsule display technology that’s used in the Kindle and the Sony Reader, but the capsules are applied to paper-thin flexible plastic and controlled by electronics made of polymer organic semiconductors. The Readius is expected to reach market later this year.
Product: Readius
Cost: Not available Availability: Later this year
Source: www.readius.com
Companies: Polymer Vision
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