The Readius, a new device from Polymer Vision, points a path to the integration of flexible screens, wireless Internet connections, and dynamically updated content.
The Readius, which combines a rollable 5-inch screen using E Ink technology and a GSM mobile phone, is designed to be both an eBook reader and a mobile phone with music player. Thanks to its screen, it’s small and portable, despite have a big, easy-to-read screen. And, since it’s got a data connection thanks to the built-in phone, it can update the device’s content from the Internet.
Users of the device won’t quite get the unfiltered Internet – content is selected and pushed to the device through a portal, rather than a web browser. Still, the portal does allow subscriptions to RSS feeds and audio podcasts, and supports email.
This is a first-generation device, but it’s exciting. Add a color screen to it and I think we’ll really be talking.
Readius – Readius eBook Reader – Readius Cell Phone | InformationAppliance.com – The Frame Media Information Appliance Blog wrote at August 13th, 2008 at 3:00 am
[...] Readius, a combination cell phone and ebook reader with an eye-catching roll-up screen, is set to launch in Fall ’08, according to Polymer Vision CEO Karl [...]