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Remember the proposed $100 laptop project of MIT visionary Nicholas Negroponte a few years back? It never materialized, but it may have had something to do with the emergence of the inexpensive netbook. Now Negroponte has another, even more revolutionary vision: an 8 1/2 x 11 inch flexible plastic sheet that serves as e-book reader and tablet computer — with projected cost of only $75.
The design is jaw-dropping. The screen fills almost all of the plastic sheet, with virtually no frame at all. And with its touch navigation, book and magazine pages come close to the feel of the real thing.
Fast Company presents the details and prototype photos in its breaking online article. More articles are linked below. Negroponte hopes for a release of this product by 2012. [I'm proud to say that Negroponte was a student of mine decades ago at Choate School!]
As a testament to the direction in which publishing is moving, just an hour ago I subscribed to the digital versions of PC World and Smart Money. They are offered at considerable savings by Zinio. I already subscribe to PC Magazine, which no longer even offers a print version. I find the reading experience just fine.
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Tom Colvin
24 Dec 2009
I just watched the Information Technology segment of the CNN program Future Fast Forward. A senior editor from Wired Magazine emphasized several times that "the tablet" will arrive in 2010; and that within 5 years, it will be a huge impact on the way we read.