OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the design for the foundation’s second-generation laptop, which isn’t really a laptop at all but a double-screened, fold-up electronic book. Negroponte says the cost of this 2nd-generation device, which uses dual-touch screens with 16:9 aspect ratios, will be kept to $75.

A Dutch company called Polymer Vision, a spun out of Philips, has developed its latest mobile phone, called the Readius. This unique handset has been designed by combining two gadget interfaces into one. The company amalgamates mobile phone features along with an e-book reader functionality into Readius. The size of two business cards, this handset comes equipped with a screen that can be folded up when not in use and folded out when users want to read news, blogs and even check emails. It can easily slide into one’s pocket. (more…)