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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
The companies responsible for eink and flexible screens are doing a good job with their prototype showings.
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We have been seeing those roll-up and/or a4 sized, easy-as-taking-a-leak prototypes for a few years now.
Newspapers absolutely love them whenever there is no real news around.
A nice picture with the ever so popular catchy title "Paper to disappear soon".
Usualy there's a few exclamation marks in the article itself.
Sometimes there is a labcoat type of chappie in the picture as well.
...he is smiling.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
They feature less intensive simple designs, in a certain way it's more a populist approach. They would have to be because their profit margins would depend more on units sold than exclusivity markets.
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They are like the cars you get on big motorshows, with an awfully high "O wow! I want to get me one of those!!" effect.
(There's the exclamation marks again, see?)
They are sleek, they are fast, cost effective, have two exhaust pipes and in of those you absolutely positively know you'll get the chicks.
They are also a con.
Study models they are called and one of the highly paid executives from the motorcompany itself is going to ride in them and he'll have one arm hanging loosely out of the window, the other arm around a supermodel of a very different kind.
The bastard!
The real model that will be coming out the next year has 6 cupholders, enough room for three kids and a dog, it has an adjustable ashtray and a cd-player as an optional extra.
It is also boring as hell and is mainly bought by secretaries who buy the thing because "it looks so cute in its standard pink colour and its ever so cheap".
You wouldn't want to be found dead in any one of them.
My point is ( I do tend to get lost in my own head, sorry) that even the big companies making ebookreaders mainly seem to do so as a study for integrating epaper in the devices that DO sell, like mobile phones.
We, the buyers take care of a little of the development cost.
Onwards towards colour epaper!!!
(stupid exclamation marks...)