Philips Readius Gets Phone Functionality, Hits Stores This Year




You've heard of e-ink devices, like the Sony Librie, or e-reader, or whatever. But you've never seen a real working prototype of an electronic reader based on a flexible e-paper, that rolls up like a scroll
.Reuters reports that the Philips Readius will be released in mid-2008. Developed by Polymer Vision, this device "is the world's first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket."

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