ooo yes please...

fix global economy? hmmm.. give away more free stuff to your great readers, then we'll have more money to go out and buy more gadgets!!

arrrgg..swag me harties!!

Of the choices.... the Mobigrip is the most craptastical 'gadget'
It will, however, make someone millions of dollars in the process of being the most craptastical.
It will be hocked to companies who are looking for something cheap to give away at trade shows. There will be Mobigrips littering the streets with random company logos cheaply printed upon them, mark my words...

chefgon_ign and a few others FYI:

The Symbol # has several names, some confusing. The most common is probably 'hash'.

In the US it is sometimes called the 'pound sign' and used as a symbol for pounds weight, but this confuses the British, for whom a pound sign is £. In music, of course, it is a 'sharp'. The picturesque name 'octothorpe' has also been introduced: it is said to have been invented by an employee of Bell Laboratories in the 1960s, in honour of the American athlete Jim Thorpe. In the large form in which it appears on modern telephones it is sometimes called 'square'.

(http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/hashsymbol)

Waits on the 'It's not in color, there's no back light, I can do more on my ___insert favorite gadget that also reads eBook files here___" folks to step up to the plate. Missing of course the entire point of e-ink once again.

This is a great step forward for those of us that do get it. Can't wait to see what applications become available with this new achievement; textbooks, (school kids will have it soo much better than we did carrying around 50#'s of books between classes...) 500 different cookbooks on a thin screen that can be clipped to a cabinet to clear up workspace... Researchers that can carry hundreds of reference books at any given time...

Can't wait!

Yes, there is no color screen, no backlight, no OS, nor is it able to play games... oh wait.. it's an ebook reader... it's meant to not cause eyestrain though epaper and.. wow.. allow the user to read books. Novel idea I realize, but there you have it. Some of us still enjoy reading, shocking I know, but it beats the heck out of carrying around 200 of my favorite reference books at any given moment. This has been beyond it's value to me in just the ability to have a library full of reference materials at my finger tips in the weight of a paperback. If you don't like it, don't buy one. But what is the point in slamming a product simply because you are ignorant of it's intended use?

What's funny is the clone supports flash. Don't get me wrong, I have an iphone and love it, but I've never understood why Flash was such a big deal. *shrug*

I'd keep as much as I need, and donate the rest to less fortunate friends and family - random strangers all in the name of Mr. Block. :D