LG's Green Kindle-Competitor is Solar-powered, Sony Partnership May be in the Works

From DailyTech: While there's nothing quite like a good book -- a paper one that is -- e-book readers do provide some compelling advantages over their more traditional brethren. For one, you can essentially carry a small library in the palm of your hand. Another advantage is that the readers save trees, reduces the amount of ink and paper chemicals that can find there way into the environment, and reduces the amount of energy required by traditional publishing.

A new prototype from LG stands to add another advantage to that list, and possibly give Amazon's bestselling Kindle a run for its money in the process. The new reader is powered by a thin film solar cell and with 4-5 hours spent in the sun can provide enough juice to read for a whole day.

A prototype of the new device will be officially revealed at the International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) this week in Seoul. Produced by LG Display, the e-reader has a cover which features the thin film cell on its inside. The panel measures approximately 10 cm. wide and is about as thick as a credit card (0.7mm).

Mr. Ki Yong Kim, head of the Solar Cell Office at LG Display boasts, "eBooks are attracting a lot of attention because they offer the advantage of storing thousands of books’ worth of contents in an easy-to-carry device. The idea of e-book combined with solar cell will offer users the added benefit of longer usage. We will continue to provide users with enhanced convenience and value to solidify our lead in next-generation, environmentally friendly products."

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