"The new Levo Book Holder takes the stress and strain out of having to hold your book, creating a more comfortable and relaxing reading time...now anyone can enjoy reading hands-free with perfect posture while sitting or reclining." Levo Book Holder Features: Straps: The book straps firmly to the bookboard in less than a minute. Tilt: The bookboard tilts 360 degrees and can hold a book overhead while you read in bed. Yaw: Move your book closer or further while keeping it perpendicular to your line of vision. Telescope Raise your book as high as 51 inches or lower it to...
Textbook Trauma
It is arguably the biggest sin of the deeply flawed world of publishing. Year in and year out students are charged exorbitant prices for the textbooks that they have to have. With the average shelf life of a textbook being 2 years the publishers have a built in dependency that borders on criminal. The schools and universities are not, like the students, innocent victims. They are complicit in this madness.If the open access movement or the digitization crowd ever needed something to rally around the textbook trade would be the place to start.The advent of buying used books online has...
Collector 2.0
Is everybody a collector? There is a new social networking site that's banking on it.Collectors' Quest believes everybody collects; "Our world is full of stuff and human beings are wild and creative enough to find ways to collect most anything," is how they put it."Collectors are passionate, enthusiastic, engaged but often disconnected" and their goal is to connect them.Their tagline: "Where Hunters Gather"Beside the usual social network components they are plugging CQTV "a broadband TV network that will open new avenues in interactivity, community, and commerce while redefining the business model for new digital programming."They have a seasoned top-tier management...
E-Mail From Your Typewriter
What happens when a mom "just couldn’t deal with a computer’s scroll bars, control keys, mouse, and other “cryptic” hardware," and her kid is technically inclined?The kid makes a "typewriter that sends email. It is a regular portable typewriter, which has concealed electronics that automatically sends the typed letter as an email...when the letter is finished and pulled out of the machine's carriage"The project is called 22 Pop (after the Olivetti typewriter, Letterea 22 and a reference to internet protocol terminology) and not only does it help his mom but it expands the boundaries of the e-mail universe. "The project...
For Your Halloween Bookshelf
"Antique looking books seem perfectly harmless until someone walks by, then the middle book slides out toward the victim as if it will fall from the shelf. Books also emit spooky sounds for a totally haunted effect."They are calling them Possessed Books and they sell for $25.There is also a little video clip of them in action at the above link.For an added fee they should let you pick the titles for the spine labels.Any ideas?via Boing Boing