SONY READER PRS-500

 

  An exaggeration certainly, but Sony’s long-awaited and often- talked about Reader holds hundreds of books, is as easy on the eyes as a traditional book, and you can read 25 books or more before recharging the battery.  Sony’s Reader utilizes an innovative system called E-link to form words on its screen, so there’s no glow like the backlit LCD screen on your computer monitor.  MIT scientists filled microcapsules with oppositely charged black and white nanoparticles suspended in liquid.  When you depress the page-turn switch a positive potential arranges black particles on the surface, while a negative potential raises the white ones, the combination creates words on the Reader’s viewing surface.  The words will change when the next charge is applied, when you push the page turn button.

 

  The Reader is small enough to hold in one hand, slim and lightweight, unlike the 25 books you would need to carry to equal the capacity of Sony’s Reader.  The Reader can be filled using Sony’s online book store, with over 10,000 titles to choose from at 25 percent less than the traditional hard cover.  The Reader can also download any PDF or text file.  So, the trees will love you? 

 

$350.00; sonystyle.co.

 Written by “Warren Hayashi 

~ by warrenhayashi on October 16, 2007.