AT&T to deliver data to Plastic Logic e-reader
They’ve done it again. AT&T, the company that beat Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile to land an exclusive three-year contract as the iPhone’s network provider, announced today that it’ll be the sole wireless provider for Plastic Logic’s e-reader, with which Barnes & Noble announced a partnership on Monday.
Plastic Logic’s attractively slim e-reader, with a black-and-white screen that’s optimal for reading text in varying lighting conditions, gets tech fetishists giddy in a way that Amazon’s Kindle readers… Continue Reading
DEMOfall 08: Plastic Logic creates a flexible and thin display
Plastic Logic has the first gee-whiz technology — a digital book reader based on plastic electronics — at DEMOfall 08. In the making for 10 years, the Plastic Logic Reader is like the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader but it uses a razor-thin display that is made out of plastic.
That’s right. It’s actually made of transistors that have been laid down on top of plastic and so it’s much lighter than any other electronic device…. Continue Reading
Plastic Logic sees flexible, low-power displays coming with $50M funding
Thin, flexible display tech is one of those advances that has been just over the horizon since the Internet bubble started inflating. Remember the promises of e-paper — a crossbreed with the best qualities of both paper and computer screens, used as portable reading material? So far the best we’ve gotten is the Amazon Kindle, but Plastic Logic is hoping to change that, with a plan for commercialization next year.
Plastic Logic, spun off from Cambridge… Continue Reading
The arrival of flexible chips — a summary
The flexible chips industry doesn’t grab a lot of headlines, but it is bringing together nanotech, biotech, and other technologies to possibly usher in some revolutionary new products.
We’ve been quietly checking up on some of the venture-backed companies in this area, including NanoGram, Plextronics and Plastic Logic. They are few, and slow-moving, but worth a look.
Their potential applications sound straight out of sci-fi: interactive displays embedded in anything from clothing to wall paper, newspapers that… Continue Reading