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The Foldable Readius Ereader Is Dead
Nate the greatest writes "One of the stranger ereader/smartphone hybrid devices ever to grace the pages of a tech blog is now officially never dead. Polymer Vision, creator of the Readius ereader, has been shut down by its parent company. This company launched in 2004 with the goal of bring an ereader with a foldable 5" E-ink screen to market. They shipped an initial production run of about 100 thousand units before going bankrupt in 2009. Wistron bought the company out of receivership and has been paying to develop the screen tech. PV has made a number of prototypes over the past few years, but they never made it out of the lab. The closest we came to ever seeing one was a render of a smartphone design which could expand to the size of a tablet."
Well according to Netcraft, Slashdot "is now officially never dead" just like this eReader. Of course, the eReader "launched in 2004 with the goal of bring an ereader with a foldable 5" E-ink screen to market". I guess the submitter (or worse the editor) doesn't know the word "bringing". But who cares, since they are never dead... Yeah, the summary is a turd.
the summary is a turd.
But hey, at least it's not a giant douche!
What happened to these, did they get buried? Is that number off an order or magnitude (or a few)?
If that many exist, there should be a constant stream of them on eBay if for no other reason than people selling broken ones for parts - but I see none current or completed.
Sounds like vaporware. The article is from 2011, has no source and no comments.
well get modding then, idiot!
The article from 2011 says that it was saved (and has the title "The Readius eReader Lives!"). The other link is to an old Slashdot story in 2007. A quick search of Google News pulls up no results. So what the hell?!?
officially never dead.
Just what does that mean?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
...is pretty crap, I work in a multi-tenant building that also houses Polymer Vision and it seems pretty quiet there indeed.
Just download the files and 3D print a copy!
Did anyone look at this? Sources? I looked at the recent section and didn't see this.
BUT the related submission below the story, which seems to have been submitted by the same person seems to have a link to a story, which has a link to a source.
I'm guessing the submitter screwed up his first submission and resubmitted it, then Unknown Lamer screwed up and picked the wrong submission.
1) The article is from mid 2011. 2) There is nothing in the article that says that it's dead. I want a news article posted on Slashdot. Let me make stuff up about it and post links to a year old article that says nothing that's in my summary. This is why I have been frequenting slashdot less and less... ( It used to be multiple times daily & is now maybe twice a week ).
I never read the summary
...and nothing of value was lost.
The LG flexible screen is in the Russian Wexler flex one ereader.
You won't get any sensible discussion here.
Around 2007, Microsoft realised tech sites like Slashdot had a significant involvement in the very public rejection of Vista as a replacement for XP. They hired several reputation management companies, including Waggener Edstrom and Burson Marsteller to manage their online presence before the W7 release.
One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit. They swamped the discussions, including those unrelated to their OS with scripted comments based on a few themes - "Have you tried it yet?" "Much faster than XP" etc etc. There was no opportunity to discuss Linux/FOSS or any other non-proprietary effort without wading through dozens of highly moderated pro-Win 7 postings. Pretty much every first post was a Microsoft-favorable pamphlet.
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
Sad, but very, very true !
I too, am about to abandon this site.
Slashdot has become more and more irrelevant.
I came to Slashdot because I got to learn so many NEW and USEFUL stuffs.
No more.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I have that.
Can you lend me a hammer?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
"They shipped an initial production run of about 100 thousand units" is a statement about products being delivered. It's not a statement that can be backed up by a link to an old Slashdot article that said something was going to ship later.
I came to Slashdot because I got to learn so many NEW and USEFUL stuffs.
The stuff on slashdot is generally quite new. It's not necessary to know all news within 20 minutes of it happening. The stuff ehre is also pretty useful. But the most important thing is that I don't know of any other site where the comments are as good. Perhaps that's a low bar, but nothing seems to clear it.
No more.
bye bye.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Whatever one may think of the editing of the blurb, or the chances of a particular company bringing a particular product to market, the idea behind the device looks interesting because it's aimed at addressing two otherwise contradictory needs - how do you get a larger screen size combined with a smaller device? Because large screens are awkward... and small screens are awkward. Just differently awkward. I can't be the only person here who has spent a fair bit of time debating over better total resolution versus larger screen size when buying a phone. (And... went for a phone with a hard keyboard. Even if the community OS for it is still pre-alpha.)
There are often - maybe usually - a number of failed tech pioneers (the more successful of which leave their own cults) before someone comes up with a good combintion. iPhone certainly wasn't the first smart phone. Amiga still has quite a few followers, at least last I checked. Maybe this particular conundrum will be worked out via of pico projectors. Or heads up displays. But it's certainly is a good thought to have in the mix, whether or not it was a winning combination.
100 thousand units
If only there was some way of writing out such huge numbers using only numerical digits to make this easier to read!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You won't get any sensible discussion here.
Around 2007, Microsoft realised tech sites like Slashdot had a significant involvement in the very public rejection of Vista as a replacement for XP. They hired several reputation management companies, including Waggener Edstrom and Burson Marsteller to manage their online presence before the W7 release.
One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit. They swamped the discussions, including those unrelated to their OS with scripted comments based on a few themes - "Have you tried it yet?" "Much faster than XP" etc etc. There was no opportunity to discuss Linux/FOSS or any other non-proprietary effort without wading through dozens of highly moderated pro-Win 7 postings. Pretty much every first post was a Microsoft-favorable pamphlet.
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
[citation needed]
Wasn't that the goal?
Invenio via vel creo