The future of digital reading is flexible. And by flexible, I mean bendable, not multipurpose. Now, LG has announced the first malleable, plastic e-ink display, and while it’s hardly Retina, it will be appearing in devices as early as this summer.
It’s short and sweet, but Android’s new boot up screen for Honeycomb is pretty slick. It’s a pulsating honeycomb that glows like Tron and mixed with a little psychedelic-ness. If only the rest of the UI was as gorgeous. [TechCrunch]
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When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded corduroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. If only its display was flexible.
