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The "companies making demo products along the same lines several years before the Polymer Vision" were just 2 companies actually and that was the same people who were spun off into the companies Polymer Vision and Plastic Logic .
PolymerVision was literally on the eve of production for retail when the rug was pulled out from under them because of a financial scandal involving a majority owner and a pyramid scheme in Europe. They had already produced a a final production test run of units that numbered in the high hundreds.They were saved out of Bankruptcy by Wistron who has "kept the band together" so to speak. Technology and the market have changed over the 2 plus years when they were in limbo but they actuallyu kept at work. They are readying a sort of Readius 2.0 with all the improvements they have developed and will bring it to market probably this year.
Plastic Logic obviously had some problems bringing its first product to market. But their plastic electronics base is secure and they have just been given a huge contract to build a facility in Russia to produce plastic electronics there as well. More will be coming from them for sure.
The Skiff was never going to be bendable. the device itself was to be rigid but the display was to be the foil backed eink displays that LG developed. LG actually has begun production on foil displays and they have also entered into partnership with iRiver to produce devices. Their first device - the Story HD- doesnt use the foil backed display but its just a matter of time. It does use an "HD" backplane developed by LG to increase the resolution of the Eink sourced film.
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