The "Paper"less future

[Patrick]

Heard this report on the news this morning.....
A factory in Germany has launched production of a super thin electronic reader that was developed at Cambridge University.

Extra clip: How it works

How things move on - though I'm not sure when this will be in production - Friend of mine has just taken delivery of a Sony e-reader and lo and behold it's already out of date!

What these do need to have for all round accessibility though is a decent narration device that reads whatever's on the page for you as well if you wanted it!

[Alpha Hooligan]

Well, I don't buy papers anyways, so this is no use to me, but even if I did, as pointed out in the clip, you can lose/ditch/pass on a paper and it costs nothing...you would have to carry this thing around all day.

Amazon do one of these for books as well, it's called "Kindle" or something, but I like proper books, so I will be sticking with them.

Some modern technology is great, some just seems like overkill.


AH

[Patrick]

I can't see the advertisers liking it - When you do leave your paper on a train - that is hundreds of potential customers reading that one paper. There was mention of using it to download books - I like books too - There is nothing worse than seeing pictures of a house for sale and along with no clutter - there is no literature! Empty house = Empty mind.

What this could be good for is an insurance style back up of the books you already have (provided they are made available of course).

I do like the fact that screens are becoming easier to read though, and the complete plastic technology in this is dashed clever - however - it's all very well saying (as they do) that it's more environmentally friendly - but they didn't explain how the plastic is made to put it together?