Plastic Logic Reader


Possibly the first Amazon Kindle killer

I never did like all the hype over Amazon's Kindle. I looked at it a few times, but it always seemed too expensive for the few things it did. Of course I had been reading books for years on my Palm.

Well, Gizmodo showed me an alternative.

Here is what the clunky Amazon Kindle should have been since the beginning: a simple, ultra-sleek full-page 8.5-inch by 11-inch electronic book and newspaper reader with a flexible plastic touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to read regular Office documents without conversion of any kind. As we said yesterday, Plastic Logic showed it at the Demo Fall 08 conference in San Diego. Seeing it up close and on its side makes me want to have one. Badly.

This is what the free market means. Someone comes up with an idea, someone else comes up with a better one. Just to keep market share, the first someone has to make their product better.

The result? Over time, better quality, cheaper price, and more capability. All without a politico or bureaucrat in sight.

Competition makes it happen.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - September 9, 2008 at 11:56 AM  Tag


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