Plastic Logic
January 10th, 2007 by Bif
Shane Richmond, of The Telegraph, has a post up about a Cambridge based company who have just secured funding to build the world’s first factory for the production of “plastic electronics”. Plastic Logic claim they will be producing, for commercial sale, ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products.
Ars Technica covers the technical end of it, for anyone who understands that shite, but what it’s supposed to mean is finally having a genuinely readable portable device for books, magazines or newspapers. How the device will attain the info for reading or what business models publishers are going to adopt, I don’t know but it does look like a promising development. At the very least ignoring people on the train just got that bit more technically advanced.
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January 10th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Combine that with ‘The Holographic Keyboard’, a nano processor, wireless power and you’ll have some niffty gadget!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Holographic-Keyboard-20314.shtml
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,112622-page,1/article.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6129460.stm
January 10th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Throw in a taser gun and a mini-bar and you’ve got the ultimate travel companion.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I’d like a cup holder too!
January 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
You’re losing the run of yourself now boy.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Nothing wrong with a combined cupholder, taser gun, mini-bar, plastic screen, holographic keyboard, wireless powered gadet. You could call it the iBif.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:27 am
I thought iBif was a play about a walter mitty type who thought he played for Cork United and fell out with his manager over accomodation at an away game in Athlone ?
January 12th, 2007 at 1:44 am
No that’s ‘I, Bif’ and it’s going to be an epic.