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Renegade:
This is just wicked cool:

http://vimeo.com/47656204?action=share

You'll kind of wonder what it is for a bit, but at the end, the cool-factor will leave you slack-jawed. :)

TaoPhoenix:
I think I'm just slack-jawed ... I don't even fully understand what just happened - it looked like some sort of putting a touch interface onto the book that then affected the scanned copy.

40hz:
I didn't completely get what the goal was until the last half minute or so. But what a concept!

It has arguably identified the missing link between print and electronic books. They should have called that video When e-Text Worlds Collide. Imagine... a print book that (when plugged in) can also present active text and media elements using the printed page as the control interface. Talk about the best of both worlds. That is just too cool! (It will only be a matter of time before this gets up on TED.)

I want it! Have them start with the Encyclopedia Britannica. Maybe that's what it will take to finally get that monster back in print. :Thmbsup:

(I wonder how long it will be before Apple, or some other troll, claims they already invented it and sue them? :P :-\ )

mouser:
It was very pretty as an artistic handmade creation, and I hate to be a downer, but haven't they basically been doing this kind of thing cheaply with some kids books for years?

See for example, the Story Reader technology:



See also:

* http://childrens-books.lovetoknow.com/Electronic_Books_for_Children
* http://www.amazon.com/Story-Reader-Books/lm/R2UA7Z1ATN38GI
* http://shop.leapfrog.com/leapfrog/jump/Tag/category/Tag

40hz:
^Not really. Maybe the most basic of core concepts is shared there. But the level of this implementation goes far beyond the old "speak & play" kid books. With those, the "multimedia" elements were merely bolted on. Probably more as a marketing gimmick than anything else considering all the worthless "educational software" that was being produced when those 'electronic' books came out.

This is more like wedding the concept of a tablet PC to a 'paper' book. Almost the antitheses of the whole ebook reader concept which attempts to eliminate the need for paper. This goes in the opposite direction and enhances the more traditional book format and materials to integrate and connect to the electronic environment.

Interestingly, doing it this way provides additional capabilities for both environments (i.e. electronic and print) without either being completely dependent on the other in order to be useful. That's a whole new way of looking at it. I'd characterize that more as a synergy than anything else.
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