Time snubs e-book readers for Invention of the Year - Page 4

nathantw · 11-08-2007, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Leaping Gnome

Seeing as the Sony Reader was invented and introduced last year, I don't see how you expect Time to name it the Invention of the Year this year. And other eBook readers might as well not even exist in the US, so yeah, what do you expect really?

I was going to say the same.

yvanleterrible · 11-08-2007, 02:18 PM

Maybe the invention of the year is Internet?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-08-2007, 02:37 PM

Now, take notes, class, because I won't be saying this again: The PRS-505 came out this year, so technically, it could've been included in the list.

vivaldirules · 11-08-2007, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Maybe the invention of the year is Internet?

Hmmm. I wonder if you could win a Nobel prize for that? Or maybe even Time's Person of the Year.

nathantw · 11-09-2007, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Now, take notes, class, because I won't be saying this again: The PRS-505 came out this year, so technically, it could've been included in the list.

Then what is innovative about the PRS-505 that wasn't in the PRS-500 that should make it invention of the year?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-09-2007, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by nathantw

Then what is innovative about the PRS-505 that wasn't in the PRS-500 that should make it invention of the year?

Actually, not much... I didn't mean to suggest that the PRS-505 should be Invention of the Year, just that it should have been included in the list.

nathantw · 11-09-2007, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Actually, not much... I didn't mean to suggest that the PRS-505 should be Invention of the Year, just that it should have been included in the list.

Truthfully I don't agree it should have been included in the list. As much as we love our e-ink readers, I don't feel Sony's unit should have been included or even considered. With so many other units out there, such as the iRex, it's nothing special and nothing revolutionary that would even consider it Invention of the Year.

If the Sony Reader had color, a light, video capability without ghosting, the ability to go onto the web, can roll up or fold up, and can make calls, take pictures, basically be less than 8 ounces, and embraced by the entire world (i.e. sales go through the roof) then it would be considered Invention of the Year. As it stands, the Sony Reader, though popular with us, isn't popular with the world and isn't taking the world by storm. In fact, a person walked up to me the other day and asked if I was reading a PDA.

Maybe next year when version 3 comes out?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-10-2007, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by nathantw

If the Sony Reader had color, a light, video capability without ghosting, the ability to go onto the web, can roll up or fold up, and can make calls, take pictures, basically be less than 8 ounces, and embraced by the entire world (i.e. sales go through the roof) then it would be considered Invention of the Year.

Again, all I asked is that it would be on the list of inventions. Believe me, there was plenty of stuff in there that won't be "embraced by the entire world." They're just there because someone thought it was a good idea--or at least "cool," like all the electronics gear (or did you not see the game consoles, digital cameras and laptops in the list? Hardly anything Earth-shattering in there, either).

Nate the great · 11-10-2007, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by nathantw

Then what is innovative about the PRS-505 that wasn't in the PRS-500 that should make it invention of the year?

Let's turn the question around: What was innovative about the Iphone that should make it invention of the year?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-10-2007, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Nate the great

Let's turn the question around: What was innovative about the Iphone that should make it invention of the year?

I've seen the iPhone work, and clearly the animated touch interface is impressive. Others have done similar, but none work as well (Jobs does know how to make sure software is optimized for his hardware). Nothing else is unique about the phone, however.

Time seems to think iPhone will be a runaway sensation. But at its cost, I doubt that, too.

HappyMartin · 11-14-2007, 12:45 AM

I also just don't get it. The gadget of the year is a cell phone? We have had them in South Africa for years.

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11-08-2007, 02:18 PM	#47
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Maybe the invention of the year is Internet?

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Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Now, take notes, class, because I won't be saying this again: The PRS-505 came out this year, so technically, it could've been included in the list.

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HappyMartin Martin Kristiansen Posts: 1,546 Karma: 8480958 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Johannesburg Device: Kindle International Ipad 2	I also just don't get it. The gadget of the year is a cell phone? We have had them in South Africa for years.

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