{"id":1196,"date":"2008-02-27T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2008-02-27T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:02:17","slug":"student_designer_envisions_a_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/student_designer_envisions_a_m\/","title":{"rendered":"student designer envisions a more credible kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/02\/27\/e-book-concept-combines-leather-and-multi-touch\/\">Engagdet points<\/a> to an award winning Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/student.designawards.com.au\/application_detail.jsp?status=2&#038;applicationID=3503\">student design<\/a> for an e-book reader that combines the gesture-based &#8220;multi-touch&#8221; interface of the iPhone with the e-ink display of the Kindle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/student.designawards.com.au\/application_detail.jsp?status=2&#038;applicationID=3503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rsz_1livre.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/rsz_1livre.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>LIVRE design concept -?\u009d Nedzad Mujcinovic, Monash University<\/small><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Interaction happens via a thin capacitive touch screen mounted on top of an electronic paper screen (&#8216;eINK&#8217;). Browsing pages happens by striking the screen from right bottom corner towards the centre of page to go forward or from the left hand corner to go backwards. Doing that using one finger will browse one page, two will browse ten pages and three will browse fifty pages at a time.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nIf simple reenactment of basic black-and-white, illustration-light print reading is your goal, I&#8217;d say that this is a far more viable proposition than Amazon&#8217;s clunky gadget. (Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/pubfrontier.com\/\">Peter Brantley<\/a>, for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engagdet points to an award winning Australian student design for an e-book reader that combines the gesture-based &#8220;multi-touch&#8221; interface of the iPhone with the e-ink display of the Kindle. LIVRE design concept -?\u009d Nedzad Mujcinovic, Monash University &#8220;Interaction happens via a thin capacitive touch screen mounted on top of an electronic paper screen (&#8216;eINK&#8217;). Browsing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,549,799,1010,1576,1669],"tags":[2317],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-ebooks","category-hardware","category-kindle","category-reading","category-screenreading","tag-design-kindle-ebooks-reading-hardware-screenreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}