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First Mobile Device with Rollable Display

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fits-in-yer-pocket dept.

TC writes "Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision today [February 5, 2007] announced an agreement which will see the leading operator of the Italian mobile industry and the pioneers of the rollable display industry join to develop and launch the world's first rollable display enabled mobile device to market in 2007. After seven years of gestation it seems that E Ink is coming of age."

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  1. Wait a minute... by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 3, Funny

    7 years of gestation, and its suddenly coming of age? What happened to childhood? These new technologies grow up so fast... Hey! Damn kids! Get off my lawn!

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  2. Not shipping = vapourware by StrawberryFrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    so opposed to the last x years where these kinds of devices have been not available, they are now ... not available?

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    1. Re:Not shipping = vapourware by colinbrash · · Score: 3, Funny

      so opposed to the last x years where these kinds of devices have been not available, they are now ... not available?

      Yeah, but they are almoster available!

  3. Re:Too bad. by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Funny

    A successful new technology requires at least three companies to go bankrupt first. Counting 1...

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  4. Waiting for apple by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, they are just waiting for Steve Jobs to show them how to make it insanely great and find a market for them

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