File under “awesome wish-ware”. The NoteSlate is a tablet that takes the name “slate” rather than too literally. It’s an e-ink tablet that comes with a pop-out stylus to write on the screen, as well as whilst it also comes in white, a black chronicle looks just like the genuine slate – those mill chalk-boards on that kids would work in propagandize in the dull mists of the past.

A outrageous 13-inch monitor takes up most of a front row of the device. The shade measures 190×270mm, as well as a body 210×310×6mm. This makes it the same breadth as A4 or legal paper, as well as in between a dual in length (legal is 355mm, A4 is 279mm). Resolution is 750×1080 pixels. Inputs and outputs have been few: miniUSB, SD-slot, 3.5mm jack and power (12-volts, that seems the little high).

The NoteSlate has a singular purpose: to act like the square of paper. You can blueprint as well as write, as well as the three hardware buttons let you undo the total page (the coop can act as an eraser for localized corrections), store the current page of flip to a previous page (no discuss is made of skipping to the subsequent page).

At $99, it looks like an overwhelming device, though has a distinct whiff of vaporware. The mockups on a site uncover a color version along with a black and white ones, as well as promise the “free Wi-Fi procedure upon request with order”. The fortitude (claimed as 100ppi) seems low for e-ink, and a touting of no anti-aliasing as “one of our most appropriate features” is only plain weird.

The launch date is betrothed as June 2011, and I’d love to see something similar to this as a replacement to paper notebooks. I have a sneaking feeling, yet, which this will just vanish as well as never be seen again. I have set myself a calendar sign for a middle of June to check up on things.

NoteSlate product page [NoteSlate around Kottke]