Unless it's e-ink or some similar technology that can keep an image up with no battery power it's going to fail.
That's the appeal of e-books. The battery life.

Looks purty, but I would imagine the reason you didn't see it at CES was because it doesn't look to have have an exposed IR port... hahahaha I kid I kid.

More on the subject though it looks cool, but how does it do color? I thought eInk was used in eBooks because it's eLectronically eFficient (see what I did there with the e's). But I didn't think eInk did anything but grayscale. Cool idea though, I enjoy it.

unless the cover does something, its stupid. why put the cover there in the first place?

Another eBook.
This year is really going to suck. In the tech world at least.

I like the iRiver Spinn or what it is called.
That thing could really be a winner.
I'll definitely buy it just to try it.

It would be great if you could transfer the notes off the device to a PC.

iRiver is a decent company, unfortunately epaper/ebooks are nothing but a fiscal dead-end. It may be smart to focus more on a complete media manager and leave the ebook market all together.

Judging from the color of that bookwrapper, it looks like it's already been down someone's (under)pants...

href="#c3684932">israeli: I actually prefer tablets (that I write on) to have a cover, and it would protect the screen in a backpack.@

@israeli:
Usually covers "cover things"... like "protection" ie "duck and cover" does not refer to "oh look, a Duck and blanket!"

Let us all know when we've gone over your head since it's clear you're short in many departments.

You know, if it does what it promises thus far, i may just get this one. now, if it can sync up with that one note thingy Microsoft has, that would surly be a business write off.

eBooks are the way to get technology in to the classroom inexpensively. PC transfer would make this a great technology accessible even to younger students.

@DSaddict: Agreed.

My Palm takes handwritten notes in the form of a graphics file that flip to whenever you need it. judging by the photo here, I would guess little else is going on here.

if this is anything like writing on a palm, winmob, or the electronic credit card signaturescreens, I'll pass. I could never figure out what I wrote with my Palm TX so I junked that and bought a PDA with a qwerty keyboard. I hate writing on screens so unless this can emulate paper then you are much better with a livescribe smartpen. I was able to play around with a newton and I didnt mind writing on that. To bad they are gross other wise.

this thing looks pretty cool. If they could make it cheap (say less that the 2G eeepc, and make it a functional note-taker with maybe some basic media capabilities, we could have something here.

Right...I'll be surprised if this thing will appear until 2009-2010.

eInk or go home.

@Dead Ghost: I agree....especially if it's supposed to have color e-ink AND a pressure sensitive pen tablet surface. I loved to be proved wrong though.

@djdare: Who said anything about eInk

@israeli: Hellloo McFly,
It is a big assed touchscreen that will be carried around in backpacks with other objects banging around and the like, it stands to reason it should be protected.
It astounds me that people with so little common sense ever become old enough to reach a keyboard.

@Red Right Hand: @Denver80203: @easy2panic: Steady on fellas anyone would have thought he beat your mother to death with a coverless version of the iriver ebook.
Looks nice but its not for me I dont think.

@MilStd:
Right but, who the hell is going to pay for all my mom's medical bills?

@MilStd: Yeah, but the bitch's head broke it...now if it had a cover, at least it would have escaped unscathed.

I don't like the idea at all.

I mean, think about it. You drop a normal book, what happens? Absolutely nothing.

You drop this thing? It breaks, you lose all your notes, and you have to throw it away. Not to mention you need to replace batteries, and use a special pen...

@Denver80203:
yum, duck and blanket.
i am, however, impressed with the relativley small amounts of suck in this design, compared to iriver's other things.

I still haven't seen anything that appreciably improves on my Rocket eBook (that still works great). It was just a little too far ahead of its time...

I won't buy a digital device for taking hand written notes before they invent the calligraphy stylus.

It's good to have an Ebook that looks like a book and let us scribble as much as we like without wasting any papers. I believe it will have the functions of WiFi and USB port for printing and saving data. It will be a good gadget to have as not everyone needs a full function PC aka laptop on the go.

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It's good to have an Ebook that looks like a book and let us scribble as much as we like without wasting any papers. I believe it will have the functions of WiFi and USB port for printing and saving data. It will be a good gadget to have as not everyone needs a full function PC aka laptop on the go.