2007 starts with a bang - big cash for plastic

Just yesterday a friend/mega-uber value reader and I were lamenting the overwhelming focus of the blogosphere on The Valley at the expense of some of the more innovative things happening in Europe. We ended our chat by sharing a wish that 2007 may see the balance redressed - and bang, today the ever-excellent alarm:clock euro has a piece on the $100m (this is not a typo) funding round just closed by Plastic Logic in the UK to ramp up production of flexible electronic reader displays in Dresden. I guess the many thousands of workers currently handing out free newspapers on the streets of London are living on borrowed time...