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Old 10-12-2006, 04:41 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Their next wins will likely be things such as "Meter readers" carrying around iLiad's and scribbling in gas meters, water meters, electric meters boring boring boring but there are a lot of those boring meters to be read every single month. Good money for iRex if they can crack the market.
I've been thinking similar, however... there needs to be a backlight of some sort. The eInk stops being wonderful at all when you're in a dark basement. Such applications need a readable screen both outdoors and indoors. Same with navigation systems - great outside during the day, but in the night?
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