It's been done before by philips as well. IMHO the philips one is prettier too. I just wish it had a bit higher capacity battery, apart from that it works like a charm.
http://www.consumer.philips.com/c/power-solutions/32741/cat/gb/

@Major4Play: Yeah, that's not actually the origin of that phrase, you ignorant cretin. Try to be properly informed once in a while, or if you have trouble with that, rent a Disney DVD, you seem to be in the target age group..

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mad2.htm

Not much of a deal if it's the same price....

Recently, I got an opportunity to borrow the iRex Reader 1000 for a week. Seeing as I have some of my university textbooks in pdf format, I loaded them on to see how it was. To be honest, I was very dissappointed. Not by the device itself, it really is a beauty and e-ink is a wonderful technology. But when I study, I am constantly going back and forth in my textbooks, to reread and compare. The refresh rate of these devices makes this quite a painful affair.
It is immensely frustrating when you want to have another look at a formula on a previous page, and because that page is no longer in cache, you have to wait a couple of seconds (for image heavy pdf files i'd sometimes have to wait almost 30 secoonds if the page was not cached) before the page turns. I found it too disruptive in my studying to be useful. As much as I love the concept of these devices, these kinds of limitations kept me from purchasing one. It really cannot replace the usability of a textbook (though the increased portability is absolutely wonderfull).

On the other hand, I also loaded up some novels, and that is where the device started to shine for me. Due to lack of images and predictive lookahead caching, page turns werent disruptive at all, and it was quite a pleasure to read on its amazing screen. I think I read more in that week than in the previous months combined. But for novels, you do not need a large device like this, a smaller device is much better for that purpose.

So yeah, I really don't see this new Kindle catching on. However, if it helps E-Ink technology become cheaper and more mature in the future, then it has my full support.

Please, please, please bring this to europe! Ever since these were first announced, i've been very interested in them, especially the touschscreen version. Seems like a great way to increase productivity and screen real estate, without taking up too much desk space.

Moments later, tragedy struck...

I think he's asking whether they will be USB drives?

This poll really shows who engadget's main readers are. Assuming that most people are actually using the OS that they prefer, OSX should only be getting about 10%-15% (generous) of the votes. Instead it's up at 45%.
No wonder engadget writes up a new article every time Steve Jobs scratches his ass..

That is one fine-looking lens...

I believe this meant to be used as an image tank instead of a pmp.
I have a Vosonic VP-8360, and it's really handy for long holidays to store all my photos on so I don't have to lug around a laptop. I dont care if it's ugly, as long as it's functional.

Don't be so quick to criticize every product which isn't made to win design awards. As long as it's quick to transfer files, has a lot of format support and keeps my files safe, then I'm happy. If I can buy the product a lot cheaper because the company didnt have spend a fortune researching what would make it look the prettiest, even better..