Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With "Blio" E-Reader

kkleiner writes "Ray Kurzweil, prolific inventor and Singularity enthusiast, is planning to debut Blio at CES 2010. Blio is an e-reader platform, not hardware, that can be used on PC, Mac, iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by Kurzweil company knfb Reading, Blio preserves the original format of books including typography, and illustrations, in full color. It also takes advantage of knfb’s high quality text to speech capabilities and supports animation and video content."

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[Shikaku]

Miss Blio wants to give you your future. Call me now for a free reading!

This is nothing special.

[dwiget001]

I have been reading using "ABOOK" for many years now.

1. Long battery life, in fact, it is so advanced, that it doesn't even have "batteries", in the traditional sense.

2. Sure, you have to manipulate the "pages" by hand, but only when you need to turn the page.

3. Heck, I can even loan it to people or, if I am feeling very generous, I can just give "ABOOK" away, whether to friends, family members or the local library.

4. ...

5. PROFIT!!!!

"ABOOK" is a sure WEINNAR!

Stupid names

[Foolicious]

Why do all these products have such stupid names? Brio, Treo, Kindle, Nano, Vaio, blah blah blah. It's like there's a council somewhere that approves product names based only on how gadgety and futuristic they sound, but under the assumption that in the future product names will only end with vowel sounds.