A personal jet-pack for the 21st century

[james_davis_nicoll]

Shorter John Siracusa: e-books' coming domination of publishing is inevitable, do you hear me? Inevitable!

Nicked from Charles Stross, who pretty much would have to be more positive about e-books than I am.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The Plastic Logic ebook reader is coming out later this year or in early 2010, and will be just this size (and very thin)

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Hm. The mock-up looks sweet. The recent Wired article suggests that it's a 10.7 inch screen, which is still a little far from the 14 inch diagonal of 8½ × 11. Works out to be 58% of full size, a little small but maybe good enough. (Assuming it's not vaporware or at the wrong price point or too breaky or never gets a large enough user base or otherwise deficient.) But I'll definitely keep an eye out.

That second comment. I feel their pain.