nytimes.com — The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look of paper
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electricpigdiggSep 9, 2008
In the future it would be cool to read the sports section and see a brief video of the event, like someone scoring a last minute winner! But these surely won't catch on in the near future anyway.
altotusSep 9, 2008
Sony has been shipping an e-Ink based electronic book reader for a couple of years now. It's actually quite nice.
agentvladimirSep 9, 2008
Although I can understand the desire for this kind of technology, it seems completely bizarre to me. For books, ok. But for a news website? Why reduce news back to a relatively static text only format? Video: gone. Live blogging: probably gone. Links to outside content, all the advanced stuff (like Digg) that form part of our news consumption habits: gone. Even colour images they reckon are a good two years off. An iPhone alike device still seems preferable the only disadvantage being the relatively small screen size.Perhaps I'm missing the point and people want a good old fashioned black and white newspaper but I can't see why. Maybe more importantly I'm being overly pessimistic about how quickly this technology will advance. Still.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2008
Sounds neat but I want things that i can't normally get. For example European newspapers, specifically UKand Ireland. American papers are so dumbed down.Until then i'll just go without.
agentvladimirSep 9, 2008
Ok sure, I get that. But why do you want to keep consuming media in that way? Sure it makes sense for magazine and newspaper publishers because they can cling on to their old business model a little bit longer. But it keeps the delivery of news non-dynamic (sorry, that's an ugly term I know).
sarasuSep 10, 2008
This would be so great.