The eagerly awaited iLiad will ship to the U.S. “in spring 2006 as promised,” according to iRex Technologies.
Yes, I know exactly who posted the news to the TeleBlog.
So now we have iRex’s answer to our question raised earlier–in the wake of a U.S. News & World Report article mentioning an ’07 shipping date for the States.
Here’s U.S. News writer Diane Cole’s comment from March 10. Believe me, she was doing her best. I very much liked her article overall and am not gonna worry about blame, one way or another. I’m just delighted that the iLiad will reach the U.S. on schedule.
Besides, it appears that U.S. News was more helpful about the Readius-class machines’ shipping date, apparently ’07 for everyone, than PC Magazine was.
Hi, check out video of iRex Illiad in action (Dutch spoken)
http://www.volkskrant.com/videoreportages/142#
I’m from Holland and it is exiting to see new technologie on what’s practically my doorstep (tech campus Einhoven University).
Too bad I don’t know how to rip and process videostreams or else I would have translated/subtitled it.
Chiel
Nice clip, Chiel.
A direct link to the clip: http://www.volkskrant.com/videoreportages/video/epaper.wm.
The introduction: “a firm related to Philips” … “invented epaper, which might make all this superfluous.” [points at printing presses]
[Explanation of how the electronic paper works; click the image of a newspaper article, and the article will be displayed. The device uses only very little electricity.]
Voice over: “Are regular paper readers as enthusiastic as the reporter?”
Lady behind the register: “Sure, looks OK.”
Blond lady: “I often go to the beach, and a big newspaper is clumsy to hold there, whereas this,” [she accidentally drops a 650 US$ Irex Iliad to the floor] “does not flap in the wind.”
Older man: “That’s not for me, I cannot read it.”
Sitting smoker: “I prefer regular paper.”
Interviewer: “Why is that?”
Sitting smoker: “Well, because I can take it whenever … er, OK, I can also take this,” [points to the Iliad] “whenever I want of course … er, I think it is just a matter of habit.”
The reporter then has to wrap up with an obligatory conclusion: “But a regular paper, on a Saturday morning, at the breakfast table: I would not want to miss that yet.”
My take: I do not see why the breakfast table couldn’t also be the electronic newspaper.