Paranga Adding Tactile Feedback to E-Reader Devices #DigInfo

[randyvaliente]

saw this the other day at siggraph hk and it's really amazing!

[MurCurieux]

very creative

[frankensteinmoneymac]

OR....you could just read a real book......Just sayin'

[ilovetxtting]

thats cool , if you dont think so why the fuck r u looking at it ? jus keep it to urself or talk about to ur mommy xD

[AndreLeCoz]

stupid as fuck!

[ircmaan]

какая бесполезная херотень!

[bbigbangkamahamayha]

why not just read a fucking book instead of simulating it?

[eabdul]

awsome! I just finished a research on this topic and found ouercoming some limitations of eReaders really challanging! this was one, and it is almost solved :)

[lordkappa]

Thank god for Japan. Just when I was complaining that my E-Book readers were too small and practical!

Asia: The cradle and grave for all that is useless or perverted.

[AsspacheChief1]

get better japan

[DimitrisLost]

i find it interesting.

[MacFadden01]

This will never catch on. We are moving away from books to get to a thinner simpler device which we can read from. If we wanted something like this.... then ebooks would not exist and we would still be reading from regular books.

[exequiel21]

que pelotudes

[brodo458]

Why not just read a book?

[MysteryLogic]

This Invention is mine but they stole it from me.

thumbs up if it also ur Invention

[boxmanboxmanboxman]

大学生が考えたアイデアをアホとか言ってる外人は何様なんだよ。­

[palspalao]

this is stupid, but I want it

[arranpies]

japanese nation had a great potential in term of technologie, but why they always make stupid think like that?? why i just don't have a car who run with fuck*** simply electricity in 2011?! deh! they can make something more USEFULL!!!! so bring me my car yao ming!

[DraskyVanderhoff]

This is so stupid , why they still want to preserve the "book effect" on e-books , please there is no reason for that and is truly backwards , is like adding a keyboard of a computer a carrier that move it self when you hit enter and does that sound that you love O.o , GET OVER IT!!! FUCK!

[lufy0000]

why would anyone want that? isn't the whole point of ereader is that its small to carry around and no one has to carry a book. There are such thing as "page search"...so useless

[Heptadd]

IT WILL RISE UP AND GIVE US ALL PAPER CUTS!!!!

[Tief84]

The main purpose of such book — to look, be felt and be read exactly as printed one.

Not so long ago I thought about e-reader which is similar to real book in leather cover, where each page is a thin flexible e-ink plate with a rough surface (approx like 200-grams paper). In hands it should look like a book with pages. But it's impossible to make infinite number of pages. Conclusion: idea not so good.

[Tief84]

Here the problem with infinite pages is solved, but they won't turn over. We receive more volume and weight. Electronics reduces it's operation time. Tactile sensations will be interesting only at first, then it'll become boring: pressing the button in regular reader easier and more natural than here. Conclusion: idea not so good (in my opinion).

[Isanion]

@Tief84 you could just give it 20 pages (or however many feels good) and when you reach the end you turn back to the beginning.

[Tief84]

@Isanion yap (: but first I have to invent thin flexible e-ink page (: But unfortunately I'm not to smart for it! :D :D

[dragondeth48]

LOOKS SO PRETTY! AND IT DOESN'T DEFEAT THE PURPOSE OF HAVING A LIGHTWEIGHT PORTABLE EBOOK!!!!!

[dakprojekt]

with OLED screens this could take sense

[amujee]

Neat concept, but I think that demo is using LCD technology for the screen. Refresh rate would be too slow with currently available e-ink displays.

[osbely]

This is neat, not cool, just neat.

[FischKopfD]

meanwhile in japan...

[sedag100]

Buy an Amazon Kindle if you only want the screen or buy a REAL book if you want to turn pages manually!! Waste of time, so unnecessary!

[taltigolt]

that has to be the most useless thing i have ever seen

[dbkhoa]

Thanks for your comment! This was a project done by five undergraduate students in two months and on their own budgets so it was quite difficult for us to make the device smaller and more practical. But you can look at it as a proof of concept. We can make it a lot smaller if we can buy a smaller motor, or make a bluetooth version and integrate it into an ipad case.

[Toomuchtime5798]

It's easier to get used to a physical interface than a digital one. With a real book, you could know that a certain piece of info is about half way through it. However, this is not possible with an e-book. Yes, it is overly bulky, but if it can get smaller, it would improve e-books a lot.

[alexpro00red3]

this pretty much ruins the efficiency that an ereader's size and shape has

[333jas]

The device seems useless but the flip page animation was cool.

[Arvak777]

I guess today's useless invention is tomorrows breakthrough electronic

[cirkelrak]

Love it :D

[derman077]

Must , , , resist , , , urge, ,, Ahhhh,

[jkjkjij22]

i was thinking of how to do this. but so it's an actual page you can flip, and i'ts not actullay this big and ugly. but i cant figure it out. it's hard. e books Will* have this eventually

[epicfilmclips]

the e-reader was made to NOT be like a book....

what the fuck is the use of this???

if i want to read a book like it's a book i just read a book!!!!!!

[innerguardianXIII]

this isn't so stupid, i can see it being useful for those who have a hard time using their thumbs due to a disability, for those who have bad Arthritis, if that's 1 thing i LOVE about Japan is they build stuff that can actually help people, like it's made FOR them and if the rest of the world actually built things to help people live life better, then it would certainly be a safer and more enjoyable world.

[o0zeroh0o]

@innerguardianXIII So you're saying that having to move their fingers and hold down a bent peice of card board is harder then sliding your finger across a screen...

[innerguardianXIII]

@o0zeroh0o they don't have to squeeze and move their thumb down so much now, also some people aren't so good with actual finger accuracy when it comes to pointy, hands shaking, thick fingers etc, not to mention now that their not using paper for books, that means less trees will go down, so this is a nice step against Deforestation.

[o0zeroh0o]

@innerguardianXIII Yes, If they were to develop this a bit more it could work although I didn't realize it was being done by students. My apologies.

[Valnuss]

@o0zeroh0o nope, this could never work - not at this size. If it'll possible to make it like 3 times as thick as a normal E-book-reader Okay but never with the size of a catalogue ...

[innerguardianXIII]

@o0zeroh0o tiz cool man :)

[xyohx]

pls look at a bigger picture and their research. (it is important)

[Spetznaz]

INTERACTION 2011

[combatplayer]

this made me laugh.

[BrokenBjartur]

This is fucking stupid Lol.

[cesarbattistinim]

The point of jump directly to the page you want on the ebook is exactly eliminate this.

Every time you do that on a book you always miss the page.

[TheMeanEYE]

Even if this is not thrilling for some of you, you need to remember that creativity is important. They are not afraid to experiment and that's what makes Japanese technologically most advanced nation.

[o0zeroh0o]

@TheMeanEYE I do agree although its the fact that this will never have a practical use in advanced technology. Creativity is good though.

[emsattt]

@TheMeanEYE yeah and they took a tsunami to the face ...

[TheMeanEYE]

@emsattt And what that has to do with anything?

[emsattt]

@TheMeanEYE its just funny :D

[TheMeanEYE]

@emsattt No it's not. If you find funny that leading technological nation is suffering I suggest you go to a shrink.

[emsattt]

@TheMeanEYE I find it hillarious :D

[TheLifePerfect]

@TheMeanEYE It's so easy to insult someone to make oneself feel better on the internet, isn't it, faggot.

[TheMeanEYE]

@TheLifePerfect Yes it is but I fail to see why you are addressing me. Am not the one who finds thousands of dead people "hilarious". Plus you are insulting me as well so that's a fail on your side as well.

[TheLifePerfect]

@TheMeanEYE I just finished watching TRIGUN so I know nuclear power plants are nothing more than prisons for hyper dimensional beings, as such it's a good thing when they break and melt down. I'm Perfect Life and you've just been fed.

[TheMeanEYE]

@TheLifePerfect You are just another retarded kiddo online trying to troll. Go play with your marbles.

[TheLifePerfect]

@TheMeanEYE I'm very sucessfully trolling but it's all because emsattt called you out. Don't get mad, just stop replying to obviously stupid posts, maroon.

[TheMeanEYE]

@TheLifePerfect Will do. Thank you. :)

[TheLifePerfect]

@TheMeanEYE My work here is done, another successful day for Perfect Life.

[mrandersonniga]

@TheMeanEYE i refuse ur reality and substitute my own

[Alectr0n]

NICE!!

WOW!!

[MANSONVIVID]

so stupid

[haichtee]

i guess its interesting that they consider all aspects related to the pleasure of reading a book

[Yiyas]

My dad has hundreds of books in the house so we got him a kindle... I don't think he misses that "feel" of turning pages like a magazine.

[saurgalen]

@Yiyas

He surely will miss it!

[theNewCodingFrontier]

Why though..

[sourav777]

so redundant....

[vex123]

@sourav777

so stupid....

[o0zeroh0o]

I thought japan had awesome technology that could blow you off the face of the earth at the press of a button but then I started watching this channel and realized, the technology that japan is coming out with is crap. What possible practical use will this ever have? The whole point of an e-book is to be compact and light... attach this thing and you might as well have saved yourself the money and bought an actual book. This, along with 90% of these inventions are absolutely useless.

[sirachman]

@o0zeroh0o As if Diginfonews is the final arbiter for news of technological progress for the world and Japan as a whole.... This is barely an invention, more of a simple product idea.

[Spetznaz]

@o0zeroh0o INTERACTION 2011 this is a convencion for creative gadgets where you can interact with technology, those are not stuff to sell to the mass. Its only a bunch of student projects

[o0zeroh0o]

@Spetznaz OH! that makes so much more sense. Thank you

[MrFabricate09]

@o0zeroh0o I totally agree. I once thought that japan has the leading technology and incredible invention, going through diginfo news made me realize that most japanese inventions are impractical.