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I am sure that the guy did put in quite a bit of work to this concept. But someone is going to have to invent a whole new material that is foldable and bendable before the masses will carry something like that around. A big metal plate no matter how thin it is will not do anyone much good.


- Josh


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-Lighting of some kind, back/side/whatever
-To not do that annoying black-white flash when changing pages
-A decent battery life
-A decent price ($199 is a good target)
-Better software]]>Mar 11th 2007 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
Signs change infrequently enough that the major comments I've heard about the Sony eBook ("It looks funny when the pages turn, and it takes too long") were not an issue.

Unfortunately, there are already pretty good (and cheaper) solutions for signs, so they ended up going out of business.]]>Mar 11th 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
Which is pretty much why the US is going down the shithole. I'm sorry but a society and a generation that is more interested in playing games, chatting online, etc then educating one self, or stimulating oneself with story that makes you THINK deserves to be flushed down the toilet with all the other failed cultures that have come and gone.

The simple fact of the matter is text in one from (textbooks) or another (novels) will always be here and as such will always need something to display it on. Personally I would give a pinky finger if Apple got into this racket. Screw the fracking iPhone. there are some pretty good phones out there already. What we don't have is a complete ecosystem for books. Think iPod and itunes but with books. I would KILL everyone within a 5 mile radius for Apple to create an ebook reader and team up with ereader.com to create a new store in iTunes for books. I got to play around with Sony's ereader at CompUSA the other day. NOT impressed. Too much shit stuffed into the reader. Too many buttons, not ergonomic enough, and I would imagine holding it for more then an hour would be a complete PITA. This is what Apple does best....design.
And while Mr. nuguns101 thinks them there word pages not no matter no more. the fact is books are still as big as ever. The problem is no one has stepped up to the plate with an offering that is really kick ass.
I'm straight and all but good god who do I have to blow?]]>Mar 11th 2007 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
I'm quite interested in an e-book reader, right now I'm using my smartphone for it, but the screen could be bigger. But the price needs to be lower.]]>Mar 11th 2007 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
If I could get my weekly copy of The Economist in e-ink it would be wonderful, I'm consistently throwing out old copies. In total it's about 5000 pages per year + printing + shipping... Feels really wasteful.]]>Mar 11th 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 24th 2007 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
I'd transcribe all of my class notes and put them on there. It'd be worth it just for that. Bonus points if I can hook a little folding keyboard up to it.]]>Mar 11th 2007 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/Mar 11th 2007 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/e-inks-bluechute-bluetooth-enabled-e-ink-concept/
That is all.]]>Mar 12th 2007 5:29PM