This could lead to a significant reduction in the weight of tablet computers, which right now are a lot heavier than similar sized e-readers that lack glass in their screens.

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But why are most e-ink displays hidden behind a rigid glass screen and not made bendy?

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Sony's just dished out details on a trio of new A-mount glass and accessories (with some E-mount peripherals as well) that are headed for a March debut in Europe.

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"It is unclear to us if this could provide better overall performance than actual glass, " he wrote in an e-mail.

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As Howell points out, it will mostly be those who are young and technologically savvy, e.g. those that are probably texting already, that will wear Google Glass.

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First off, it adapts your Canon EF (full-frame) lenses to E-Mount, which is nice enough since there's still a paucity of high-end glass for NEX users.

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E-Town, it has the sweeping asphalt vistas of a suburban office park, around blocks of reflective-glass buildings, occupied by Nokia, Bosch, and other corporations.

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