The hype around Plastic Logic continues to grow
as the e-reader market gets more crowded with Amazon's Kindle and
Sony's Reader battling it out for first place.
But whereas both
support e-ink
, making reading easy on the eye, they're both
pretty small and don't give the reader experience of holding a
newspaper or magazine.
Perhaps even more than record sleeves
and manual cameras, there's a strong consumer attachment to the book
and the newspaper and some have difficulty in seeing how the printed
form will lose its appeal altogether.
Yet traditional
media across the world is shaking at the knees and the future of
journalism is almost certainly online, cutting massive overheads and
as such big newspapers are looking anxiously to the success of
Plastic Logic, the bendy Flexiscreen which is due to hit the markets
later this year. True, it will only be in black and white to begin
with, which will severely limit the appeal to magazine readers, but
for newspapers that should represent no big deal.
The days of
the newspaper boy yelling "Extra! Extra!" would seem to be on the
way out.
Here's a look
at the prootype for Plastic Logic shown earlier this year, as yet without a flexible display:
And
here's what they would like once the flexible display makes it a
real flexiscreen:
And
here's just a bit of fun, a look at the future of flexiscreen
newspapers with a gratuitously sexy girl:
