The coolest gadget I saw at the 2009 O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing event wasn’t even on display.  It was an actual working Readius!  Back in September 2008 I interviewed Igor Smirnoff, Director of Strategic Development for PressDisplay.com on metaprinter.  In that interview he mentions the Readius and shares some pics.

When I bumped into him at TOC2009 today I told him that I was disappointed with the display by the Plastic Logic Reader (every working model had terrible vertical lines on the screens)  and I really wanted to see the Readius he mentioned and with that, Blamo!  Here it is!  within 10 seconds people started gathering around.

Above, Igor is  holding the device while cradling an iRex Tablet.  He was at the event to showcase NewspaperDirect‘s new iPhone Application and PressReader features for the iRex and Readius. Read more about that in their release. Continue reading →