Neonode lives: zForce e-reader touchscreen gets pumped into Koobe Jin Young reader

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/neonode-logofeb2010.jpgWe're not surprised anymore when another company jumps on the ever-fattening e-reader bandwagon (http://www.engadget.com/topic/reading-into-the-future), because really, pretty much everyone is making one now... including, apparently, companies we thought had basically ceased to exist. That's right folks, Neonode is seemingly back from the dead (http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/neonode-ab-maker-of-the-n2-files-for-bankruptcy/) (though truth be told it looks like the company was never actually fully cold), pumping its touchscreen tech -- called zForce and made specifically for e-readers -- into Taiwanese company Koobe's just announced Jin Young reader. We don't have fully specs on this bad boy by any means, but we know that it's going to be a 6-inch e-paper styled affair with 2GB of memory (and up to 16GB by way of microSD). The reader claims to be the thinnest device boasting a touchscreen ever made, and should make its way to retail in April (in Taiwan) for somewhere between NT10,000 and NT13,000 (that's between $312 and $405), depending on the content agreement. Full press release is after the break.
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