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Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader

Posted by timothy on from the penny-gadget-would-like-royalties dept.

holy_calamity writes "E-readers are getting better but still limit users to keyboard-style interaction. Researchers at Berkeley and Maryland Universities have changed that with a reader that has two 'pages.' The two displays can be moved like a real book's pages to leaf through a document, or detached to compare and share virtual pages. If they are folded back to create a tablet with displays on each side, you can turn it over to flip pages. A video shows it in action." You may be reminded of the promised second-generation OLPC device, which looks somewhat similar.

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  1. Re:Oblig by Alain+Williams · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its called a library.

  2. Re:Why? by Joebert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This makes it much more appealing to a broader (read: older) audience who don't want to "learn something new".

    If they don't want to learn something new, my first piece of advice would have to be quit reading books.
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  3. wow, who would have thought! by speedtux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazing research! With two screens, you can display two facing pages, or two different documents, and you can even rotate pages.

    What amazing innovations will they think of next?