PolymerVision is still working hard on a successor to the Readius. They were literally about 3 months from full launch of the original when the rug was pulled out from under them. Their largest investor was involved in a huge European Ponzi scheme. Out went the investment and they couldnt secure new funding as there was some question about ownership.
They went into bankruptcy and were purchased by Wistron. Wistron is fully funding and backing them to create a "next generation" device. In the intervening time period they lost their supply chain and the device was surpassed electronically. The good thing was that the team stayed in place and had continued to work on improvements.
So it wont be long before the new device emerges. They have had other irons in the fire as well. Recently they were involved with the creation of the first organic processor. They actually built the thing
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Edzer Huitema, Chief Technology Office who I got to know last year at SID, will be giving a talk about thin, rollable displays in June at the Printed Electronics conference in Frankfurt.
And in just a couple of weeks at SID in LA the ceo Karl McGodrick will give a presentation that will "look at the future of mobile computing and eReading, highlighting the role to be played by flexible, foldable and rollable displays. This will include some market forecasts."