Spring Design Inc., founded in 2006, in Fremont, California, focuses on E-reader, E-book products. Spring Design Shanghai site is R&D site of Spring Design, with about 50 talent Hardware & Software engineers who have excellent design & production background in Intel, IBM, Bell labs, Dell, Lenovo, ZTE, Quanta, Inventec, Mitac, Cellon... Most Spring innovative design work is done in Shanghai site. The company pioneered its patent-pending dual screen design with Duet Navigator capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device. Spring Design's innovative patented technologies incorporate the seamless interaction of dual display and multi-online access in a single device, benefiting and leveraging the technology and resources of the Web to enhance the reading experience with "Web Grab". In October 2009, Spring Design Inc. announced its dual-screen, Android-based E-book Reader. http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/spring-design-alex-dual-screen-android-based-e-reader/ Demo video: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/watch-spring-design-alex-push-the-web-to-e-reader-format-video?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget In 2010 CES, "Alex reader" from Spring Design was shown to the world publicly with pretty good response and won the Best Ebook Award. http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/best-of-ces-2010.aspx?pid=11