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Originally Posted by Münchener
I never understood the real need of adding new models of everything all the time. This never-ending consumption frenzy is harming the humankind. Of course its nice to see new gadgets and technologies, but this feeling i get when i just finished unpacking my new device and it is already superceded by the new model, which is better, faster, nicer, trendier... Everytime it happens I feel like I have just paid the "early adopter" tax, or the "idiot buyer" tax. I don't know, I maybe am just old-fashioned.
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It's inevitable in a field of rapidly evolving technology. It will inevitably slow down when the technology matures, just as has happened with, say, PDAs or laptop computers. At the moment, though, eInk technologies are still very much in their infancy, and we'll inevitably see a whole slew of new devices. The next major step will probably be "unrolling" screens which are estimated to be in production in 2009.