Plastic Logic Launching 'Flexible' e-Newspaper Reader

by Thomas Ricker, posted Sep 9th 2008 at 4:01PM

Earlier this week, Plastic Logic showed off its new e-newspaper reader (name, undecided) for the first time. The black and white, E Ink device features a wireless link to download content, room enough to store "hundreds of pages of newspapers, books, and documents," and a display more than twice the size of the wee Kindle while suffering just half the ugly.

Better yet, the device is said to use "flexible, lightweight plastic" rather than glass resulting in a reader about one-third the thickness of the Kindle at about the same weight -- the reader itself (pictured left) looks rigid compared to that flexible display Plastic Logic has demonstrated in the past. Expected to go on sale during the first half of 2009 with more details, including which news organizations will feed information to the reader, promised for CES in January. [From: NYTimes]

Filed under: Computers

Tags: e book, e ink, ebook, EInk, kindle, newspaper, plastic logic, PlasticLogic

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