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Article: Cutting Edge: Gadget is netbook and e-reader ; E Ink devices
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Smartphones and netbooks may be the best things that ever
happened to multimedia junkies, who can now watch movies and play
games wherever they like.
But for those of us who love text, the same gadgets, with their
flashlight-bright screens, are a brutal way to absorb the morning's
headlines, never mind The New Yorker or a novel.
Enter the Edge (www.entourageedge.com), an LCD netbook with a
separate, easier-on-the-eyes, grayscale e-reader screen.
The Edge, due out in February, is one of a handful of breakout
gadgets that will incorporate E Ink's reflective screen technology
(think Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader) in 2010.
Few of those devices, however, will cost less than $500 and
embrace open ...