Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real

An anonymous reader writes "Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?"

Comments

Farenheit what?

[CRCulver]

So what exactly is the temperature at which e-books burn?

Re:Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

try a chiclet. works for me.

Re:Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one who has trouble getting jis in their keyboard ? Any solutions

How does that have anything to do with E-ink? Are you a squid?

I'll roll my own - thank you

[Mister Liberty]

Want a Readius?
No thanks -- I'll roll my own.
Why, you must be from Holland.
Sure, aren't you?

I'm not into any paper

[rsanta74]

you can roll, but can't smoke.

Re:Audiobooks

[Ztream]

I'd rather have a cyclist listen to an audiobook than a driver making a hands-free phonecall.

I didn't know the two were mutually exclusive.

By the way, you seem to be from The Netherlands, the country that taught me to stop watching out for cars and start watching out for deadly bicycles :). I still do this back in Sweden even though it is totally unnecessary here.