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Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the online-news-in-newsprint dept.

prostoalex writes "The e-paper is coming to reality in the form of a 6" screen with higher than usual 170 dpi and $381 price tag. It runs a customized version of Linux, and being Sony-branded, supports MemoryStick. The British journalists claim that three AAA batteries keep it up for 10,000 pages, but it's not too clear whether they've actually verified it, or just read the press-release. The manufacturers are hoping to sell 5,000 of these a month as their best-case scenario."

6 of 410 comments (clear)

  1. Uh.. by Voltiare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I have a bunch of those. I call them "books".

    1. Re:Uh.. by NivenHuH · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea.. but do your "books" run Linux? =)

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  2. yeah.. by djcreamy · · Score: 1, Funny

    You people think this is neat? Just wait until the toilet paper in public restrooms stream commercials. Try taking care of business then. Paper and monitors, please don't mix the two.

  3. Thanks for the link by null+etc. · · Score: 3, Funny
    Don't you love posters who throw all sorts of useless links into their submissions?

    Don't you also love slashdot's auto- href captions?

  4. Inspector Gadget by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    W00t! Now I can have a digital power book just like Penny in the cartoon.

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  5. Re:Can it read free content ? by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny
    3-5 books a month for 6-10USD a month for that price, I'd rather join the book club and download real books by snail-mail which I can pass on to my grand-children when I've done with them. This sounds like its about as viable as a 1999 dotcom.

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