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This is something for sore eyes; it certainly got my lower jaw dropped to the desk. The University of Cambridge, besides being loathed by almost everybody at my university (long story, another day) have once again excelled themselves in the technological field by developing this idea, whereas Plastic Logic, are manufacturing the device. It has the capacity to hold hundreds of separate newspapers, and uses plastic microchips as opposed to silicon ones - so although it feels like a very thin tablet of plastic, it’s about the same weight as a magazine. It has a high resolution monochrome (although only seen, not confirmed it won’t have colour, seems unlikely as of yet) which is around 8.5″ x 11″ in size, and …

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