The Latest E-Reader news has very a very mysterious tech start-up named Kakai. They are developing a rival to the Kindle and the Entourage Edge to the classrooms and student crowd. The as yet unnamed and unseen device would be a dual-screen Linux tablet with support for gesture-based touch. It is being billed as a text book and multi touch e-reader for the classroom. One of the players involved in this project is Osman Rashid, who started the textbook rental service known as Chegg.
Kakai is a unknown company myriad in secrecy in Silicon Valley. It has about 50 employees and a venture capital of roughly 10 million.
The e-reader will be foldable and come with two displays. Basically, it will partially imitate a textbook while bringing the benefit of portability, since students will no longer have to carry multiple heavy books around campus. The other detail disclosed was that the e-book reading gimmick will use a version of the Linux OS. There is no word yet if the device will be using LCD Screens, E-INK screens, or a combination of both.
The Demo Unit for this is several months away says a spokesman of Kakai. No Other specs are available at this time.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
