Thanks to an anonymous tipster for pointing us at a recent PowerPoint
presentation with some more details (in Dutch) on the current trial of the
iRex iLiad e-book reader. Slide nine has a timeline according to which the e-paper project won't be ready for commercialization before Q4 2006. Now, we don't know if this implies a delayed launch of the reader, or of the IDS e-content delivery service, or just of some specific "features" such as contextual and timed ads. But from what it looks like, it'll be still some time before we can expect e-newspapers to hit the streets.
If you dig some further on the same site, you can find two
basic tutorials (both in PDF) on how to use the iRex device. We extracted some photos for you and attached them to this post.