LG takes e-book craze outside

(Credit: LG Display, via Gizmodo)

With the introduction of a solar-powered e-book from LG Display, owners will soon be able to read for hours on end, so long as they're outside and the sun is up.

This is because the new offering boasts both an e-book and a thin-film, 10cm solar cell. Surprise!

Four to five hours of sun exposure yields an additional day's worth of reading time. You can read inside too, of course, thanks to the battery, but if you do that how will you show off the fact that you're on the cutting edge and hip with your e-book?

This story originally appeared on Gizmodo.

[rk2469]

If you read book outside that for 4 to 5 hours, that's a lot of UV exposure, you can get a skin cancer. It's a tough call.

A Skin Cancer or Environmental Worship, a tough call. Would the Universal Health Care approve this type of activity? yeah

[ryokowerx]

Yeah. That's great... now how about make one with a backlight for those of us who use it for reading at night - in bed - so we don't wake the other person next to us up.