BiblioRoll, the new digital literary baton

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Sep 1st 2006 at 5:57PM

We're not sure that the BiblioRoll exactly meets the definition of kawaii, but it's definitely all sorts of awesome looking, and feels pulled from a 70s sci-fi. The BiblioRoll is a 15cm (about six inches) plastic cylinder that contains three 2-inch LCDs encased in separate sections of the cylinder. Each section can be rotated to display pages of different books, each of which can be linked and referenced together. The good folks from Media Design Okude Laboratory at KEIO University in Japan say that the BiblioRoll won't be complete until 2010, which should give us enough time to save up enough money to actually buy one of these things. Maybe by then we'll also have organized a BiblioRoll throwing contest.

[Thanks, Takashi Matsumoto]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: biblioroll, books, kawaii, keio university, KeioUniversity, media design okude laboratory, MediaDesignOkudeLaboratory

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tiuk @ Sep 1st 2006 6:24PM

Did I miss something? Wouldn't you go blind reading a book off a 2" screen?

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ElectroGeek @ Sep 1st 2006 6:24PM

That's cool and all but what about actually turning a page on a real book? Hmm. Do we really need a device like this and what's it's actual purpose?

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Gavin @ Sep 1st 2006 6:46PM

The designer must have watched Logan's Run one too many times.

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Cade @ Sep 1st 2006 7:04PM

I wouldn't read a book from a 2" screen. There would be, what, 10 words on a screen resulting in constant scrooling. Someone should clarify how this would be useful.

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Itsuki @ Sep 2nd 2006 2:24AM

Thank you for your comments. I am a designer of this BiblioRoll. "2-inch LCDs" is misinformation, but a proper size is 2.5". And it's designed to see a book over two 2.5-inch screens. By using high-precision ones, it's not inconvenient to read like reading mails with mobile-phones.

Please check YouTube to see the actual operation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEdbQhgYdc8

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Ammon Cunningham @ Sep 2nd 2006 8:32AM

Wow

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