EnTourage eDGe™ Store - enTourage eDGe. Technical Specifications | Skiff Reader | Skiff Reading | Skiff. Spring Design Alex: dual-screen Android-based e-reader (Update: FREMONT, CA - OCTOBER 19, 2009-- Spring Design today announced Alex™, the first e-book based on Google Android featuring full browser capabilities and patented dual screen interaction technology, the Duet Navigator™. The Alex livens up text with multimedia links, adding a new dimension to the reading experience and potentially creating a whole new industry for secondary publications that supplement and enhance original text.
Alex's dual-screen display design brings together the efficiency of reading on a monochrome EPD (electronic paper display) screen while dynamic hyperlinked multimedia information and third party input on its secondary color LCD screen, actually an integrated Android mobile device, opens a rich world of Internet content to support the text on the main screen. Alex is the first Google Android-based e-book device to provide full Internet browsing over Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM.
CES 2010: Plastic Logic Que ProReader e-book reader in action [v. I spent some time at CES 2010 with the Plastic Logic Que ProReader, a business-specific, capacitive touchscreen e-book reader that brings the content diversity and compatibility of a traditional laptop to an e-Ink e-book reader interface sized to a standard 8.5 in. by 11 in. piece of paper. I asked a company representative to walk through the device for ZDNet readers. The video and my impressions, after the jump: My impressions? It's an incredibly thin e-book reader, owing to Plastic Logic's innovative plastic microprocessors and display (hence the company's name) that allow the company to build things at the thickness of a sheet of plastic.
I also thought the "standard sheet of paper" sizing was fantastic, not feeling scrunched horizontally or vertically. The problem? Aside from the general shock of the pricing in general, my problem is that the prices bump against those of the ULV notebook and tablet PC market. Related on ZDNet: Plastic Logic.