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LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book
MikeChino writes "At first glance, e-readers offer a great set of benefits over paper-bound books – they’re light, versatile, and a great alternative to lugging around a tote full of dead tree tomes on your next trip. However these new reading mediums have one glaring fault — can you imagine the frustration of running out of juice mid-sentence and halfway through Infinite Jest? LG's new solar e-book aims to address this issue by harnessing the sun's rays to power its display. The device features a 10 centimeter wide thin-film photovoltaic panel that can power the reader for a full day's worth of reading after 4-5 hours spent sitting in the sun."
... Warranty void if left out in the sun for prolonged exposure.
) Human Kind Vs Human Creation
) It'd be interesting to see how many humans would survive to serve us.
Now all I need is a portable sun to read in bed.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
No, actually it doesn't. It feels like you want to jerk off, except you're sitting in church and the priest is looking right at you.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Running out of juice with an e-book must feel as if all the pages that you still have to read are suddenly glued together.
I hate it when that happens. That's why I never lend my copies of Playboy* out to anyone...they always come back with pages mysteriously glued together.
* For all you kids out there, Playboy was a magazine that adolescent boys used to...um...read before the invention of Internet porn.
Is it wrong to want an ebook with a little furnace to burn books as fuel?
> It feels like you want to jerk off, except you're sitting in church and the
> priest is looking right at you.
It feels like you want to jerk off, except you're sitting in church and the
priest is looking right at you while he's jerking off.
There...fixed it for 'ya!
I suspect the number of dead trees used to make such a book is less than the amount of trees necessary to manufacture and power an ebook of any kind over its usable lifespan.
I must have missed the Kindle "wood panel" edition.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Ahhh... to be thirteen agan.
Professor Karmadillo Songs of Science
minus the UV the windows filter.
Must be the Linux crowd complaining :)
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Playboy was a magazine that adolescent boys used to...um...read before the invention of Internet porn.
But only for the articles.