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Personally, I'm waiting for the Readius. It uses e-Ink like the Kindle, but actually rolls up into a compact portable device. It's supposed to be released in Italy 2008, so I might be in store for a long wait here in Canada, but I think it will be worth it.

It will be able to play your precious audiobooks, from the specs:
- Download and playback of music, audiobooks and audio Podcasts
http://www.polymervision.com/assets/downloadablefi le/Readius1(27)-13102.pdf

From the companys website:
http://www.polymervision.com/Technology/CurrentSpe cifications/Index.html

Current Specifications
- Contrast: 10:1.
- White reflectance: 35%-40%
- Switching time: 0,5-1s
- Optimum refresh rate: 50 Hz
- Number of pixels: 240 x 320 (quarter VGA - 4.8")
- Rolling radius: 0.75 cm

Same here. Thing is, I now see links to 'Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop" at the top, where once I used to see 'metamoderate' links. So yesterday I bothered to send in a story and it was rejected. (It was about a very cool gadget Philips has just made (the real one looks less gadgety, but is still so good I saw it on TV, all the presenters gathered round and said 'wow' and were obviously really impressed and not just parroting what they'd been told to say).

So, that's that then - no more submissions from me, and no more meta-modding either. And I don't want to take the friggin' survey! What has become of slashdot?

That's the coolest phone ever. Here's a couple of small pictures:
http://www.jjambproductions.com/images/global%20li nk2.jpg
http://www.jjambproductions.com/images/globallink4 .jpg

My Google search turned up several companies working on similar concepts. Here's one: http://www.polymervision.com/

If you look at this picture the display actually looks quite readable with quite a few lines of text. I imagine in a few years they will double the pixels, increase the contrast and use font smoothing to make it all the better.

And I too have read ebooks on a smaller 320x240 display and found it easy enough to keep using 5 hours+ in a row during reading sessions.

From http://www.polymervision.com/Technology/CurrentSpe cifications/Index.html, it seems the response time is 0.5 - 1 s with a reflectance of 35 - 40% and a contrast ratio of 10:1. Even given it's a first generation product, it's going to look a bit murky.

a press release from the screen's manufacturer can be found here:
http://www.polymervision.com/New-Center/Press-Rele ases/Article-14693.html

...here , and other images here.

...here , and other images here.

A couple of things about electronic paper. The displays are too slow to be used for anything other than static display of information at this time.

Obvious usage examples...

By the looks of the photo in the article, the curvature is nowhere near good enough