E-ink or polymer based screens are coming but it's going to take time. Polymer Vision reckons it will have some form of colour in a couple of years but this is not true colour: it's like the old days of print with spot colour. True colour arrives sometime after that.

The rest of the machine exists: it just happens to be inside a Kindle. It's the screen technology that makes all the difference. The problem with Mike Arrington's concept is that he is trying to define a product that has a market distinct to that of the e-reader. Given that the e-reader is still is a nascent business, I can't see that working.