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The Foldable Readius Ereader Is Dead

Posted by Unknown on from the cool-gadgets-you'll-never-own dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Is this slashdot, or fuckedcompany.com? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  2. credivility? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like vaporware. The article is from 2011, has no source and no comments.

  3. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?!?

  4. Am I missing a meme here? by icebike · · Score: 3, Interesting

    officially never dead.

    Just what does that mean?

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    1. Re:Am I missing a meme here? by Cinder6 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's undead, obviously. Better get some garlic.

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  5. While the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...is pretty crap, I work in a multi-tenant building that also houses Polymer Vision and it seems pretty quiet there indeed.

  6. How is this news? by zethreal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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 ).

  7. Re:Officially.. by kelemvor4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never read the summary

    In that case I can say you're obviously not new here.