Flex-E-books soon ...

Now this looks like what I've been waiting for. I recall seeing this firm's previous discoveries reported a short few years back and it finally looks like they are about to produce the goodies. New Scientist records it here: Flexible electronic books to hit market soon - tech - 23 February 2009 - New Scientist and the nub seems to be this: "Plastic Logic says it has now perfected a way of printing polymer transistors onto a layer of bendy plastic - allowing the screens to flex and bounce. 'Screen breakage is the number one complaint with today's e-reader technology. Our display can take a lot of rough and tumble,'"
A bit later on we're told: "The company says it is now ramping up to commercial production of the screens, which will be just under A4 in size. "It'll be a much better e-reading experience at this magazine size - keeping layouts and graphics intact without converting them to small and unattractive formats," Eschbach claims.The device will have wireless internet connection and a touch screen, allowing use of a virtual keyboard for annotating text. In contrast"
That sounds more like it. I have no idea of cost, and I guess the first generation is going to be beyond my wallet, but it would seem to be what I've been waiting for: glad I haven't bought a Kindle ...

Now combine that technology with this one and you could have something very, very powerful: I can see classroom uses which might make smart board technology as we currently know it obsolete: "a device that lets you do something similar. Called sixth sense, it offers a way of displaying information on any surface - a newspaper or wall, for example - and manipulating it with hand gestures. "We wanted to find out if we could merge information into a sense that is always with us," says Maes's student Pranav Mistry.
The device, which is worn around the neck as a pendant, contains a small projector and webcam. The pendant communicates either with a laptop in a backpack or a smartphone connected to a remote server. The webcam monitors the user's hand gestures and conveys them to control software running on the laptop or server."

And for musos ...