Actually the Kindle 2 shows 16 greyscales--but you're right, color isn't here yet.
Plastic Logic is working on a reader as well, and reckons they'll have color e-ink on a follow-on model within three years or so.
As for combining epaper displays with a traditional device, I hadn't heard of a laptop combo, but Polymer Vision in the Netherlands is working on a cellphone hybrid called the Readius. Very sci fi with roll out e-ink screen.
I know epaper has been around for some time, but the first advanced, mass market devices have only been out for a couple years now, so give it a couple more years and I'm sure we'll see more advancements along these lines.
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Actually the Kindle 2 shows 16 greyscales--but you're right, color isn't here yet.
Plastic Logic is working on a reader as well, and reckons they'll have color e-ink on a follow-on model within three years or so.
As for combining epaper displays with a traditional device, I hadn't heard of a laptop combo, but Polymer Vision in the Netherlands is working on a cellphone hybrid called the Readius. Very sci fi with roll out e-ink screen.
I know epaper has been around for some time, but the first advanced, mass market devices have only been out for a couple years now, so give it a couple more years and I'm sure we'll see more advancements along these lines.