Bridgestone Flexible eBook Reader Gets Official

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So what’s the deal with eBook readers these days? I mean sure I can understand why Amazon and Barnes & Noble would want to provide eBooks to their customers. After all, that’s what they happen to have at their disposal but Bridgestone doesn’t have all those books to offer in the first place, do they?

Nevertheless the company has announced an eBook reader of their own and from what we hear it is going to be totally awesome. The device in the picture here is based on Bridgestone’s Quick-response Liquid Powder and it’s going to offer a bunch of unique features which aren’t available in other similar products yet.

The device will offer you a 13.1-inch touchscreen e-paper display which will be able to offer you 4,096 colors. That’s right, the eBook reader will have a color screen that’s the size of a regular sheet of paper. The devices measures 10.7 inches and it’s just 5.8 mm in thickness which means that Bridgestone’s reader is even slimmer than the QUE proReader we showed you just earlier today.

Just when we thought we’ve seen everything when it comes to eBook readers we find out that this reader is very flexible. The e-paper, the touchscreen panel and the circuit board are all flexible which means you can bend the thing to some extent without actually breaking it.

Unfortunately we don’t know how much it will cost and when it will be available in stores. We should have more details about the eReader at FPD International 2009. The event is scheduled to take place from October 28-30 at Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama City, Japan and if you happen to be there, don’t forget to drop us a line about the Bridgestone eReader.

At this point you have all the available details about the Nook, the QUE, the Kindles and this unnamed Bridgestone device. Other readers are also available from Sony and MSI is also getting ready to enter this business. What will you buy? What do you want to see in an eBook reader besides great content and support for most documents available to mankind?