Mustek MER-6T is another Twilight-loving touchscreen e-reader
By Joanna Stern 
posted January 26th 2010 3:50PM
posted January 26th 2010 3:50PM
Mustek isn't in the business of making out-there products, but maybe it's changing its tune by slapping the Twilight cover on its MER-6T e-reader. Just another 6-inch, e-ink reader sans a content ecosystem or wireless connectivity, we can only imagine that they want you to stab the MER-6T right in the SD card slot in a fit of vampire e-reader-hating rage. Ah, but then when the blood is slowly dripping off its .4-inch thick body and into its 3.5mm headphone jack, you to realize that it's got a touchscreen, built-in music player, and that it comes with a luring wrist strap all which make you want to ravish the device forever into the night. You sick bastards, Mustek. There's no pricing on the MER-6T, but the experience seems pretty priceless.
... and unless it cost south of US 100.00 has no chance of making even the smallest impact on the market.
@DaHarder
The blame for this device and its failures- falls directly on the mistakes of the previous administration. It's George Bushes fault.
I would pay...fifty? dollars for this device. Maybe.
Dear twilight, please die. Thanks much.
@One Love I guess the fad of tablets/e-readers using twilight inspired walpapers begins on CES of the HP slates using New moon as the background.. Details: http://bit.ly/hp-slate-tablet-details
Although, I can't agree more about your statement that twi should die.. lol
@One Love
She gets pregnant, shoots out a kid, and becomes a vampire. Now we can all move on.
Good GOD I am so sick of these tablet rumors from apple. Just fucking sick of them. Every 30 seconds is a new post about how nice it is, what it is doing. How great it will be.
erm, wait. Ok this is about Twilight.
All right, add in something about Vampires to the above rant and take out Apple and Tablet.
Sorry for the intrusion.
@Showbiz : Twilight will be available for download from iTunes to your iTablet.
@One Love Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo BURN THE DOWNLOAD!!!
@Showbiz
Wait until tomorrow, it will all be over with.
I finally get to read about my favorite sparkling vampires!!! I think that the story is actually scarier than that movie
@thesafecigarette seriously dude...who gives a shit...
@epoch24
seriously dude. Its called a sarcasm. I understand it is outside the realm of your comprehension, but it's ok.
@thesafecigarette
what's story?
that's a good looking e-reader. Is this the first with touch-screen? Any info on the response time?
@Ioannis Um. First with touchscreen? Is this another sarcastic post?
While this reader doesn't look exactly exceptional, at least they've managed to make it mostly non-ugly. I expect the touchscreen reduces contrast just like the Sony model, though...
@(Unverified)
more like ignorance. I see that ASUS announced one such as well (the DR-950)
ugh, twilight.
First thought: Holy shit! A color e-book reader!
Second thought: Stupid Adobe...
We're going to see a ton of 14-19 year olds everywhere with E-readers soon if they market them this way.
@Stephen1229
We're going to see kids wanting to read?
Oh the humanity!
Not sure why the company would choose Twilight for their promotional photo.
Can 12 year old girls afford this reader?
@BadKitty
if they can afford iPhones the answer would seemingly be of course they can.
@BadKitty Since many 12-year-old girls had ipods back in the day and iphones now, I'd guess that yes, they (their parents) can probably afford a couple hundred dollars for a cheap e-reader.
Whether they would do so just because it's marketed with a photoshop Twilight cover is somewhat open to question, though - needs official license and picture etched on back of device. :)
@BadKitty
I don't think Mustek is promoting it this way. Looks like an Engadget photoshop (the original photo shows a home-screen)
Twilight loving? So this thing is 14, female, over weight, and has a pimped out myspace profile?
Am I the only one who is sick of white cases? It also looks a mite chunkier than .4 inches thick to me, but that might just be a weird photo perspective thing. Wonder what it's running as far as an OS goes. Hope it's not yet another Android tablet. In any case, it's yet another tablet that I probably won't buy. Give me something that beats my phone, and I'm down. And I don't care that much about more screen size. I know how to push a button to flip pages and can do so more than once for every paragraph if needed. It's not that hard and you get used to it and it's a fine tradeoff for being able to carry your phone in your smallest pocket.
Sounds like someone has a vampire fetish.
Wow, I'm surprised that no ones created a crapgadget ebook reader with twighlight on it, It could sell better than any iTablet.
How many times have we seen an e-reader with a screenshot of Twilight? Every EXISTENT e-reader has a screenie of twilight. Am I the only one sick of twilight?
i would not pay >$100 for ANY e-reader. this e-reader would be great if:
1.
Go ogle: Interview with an ex-vampire
Twilight... I just threw up a bit in my mouth. Just for that it should only cost $50/