New Product Announcement - BOOK

[robjoubert]

For your enjoyment this weekend:-
Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device, otherwise known as the BOOK.

It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere -- even sitting in an armchair by the fire -- yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disk.

Here’s how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.

Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The "Browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Most come with an "index" feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.

An optional "BOOKMARK" accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session -- even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKMARKs fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKMARK can be used in BOOK's by various manufacturers.

Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language stylus [PENCIL].

[whitworthsa]

Wow...that's so neat. Where can I get one? Do I have to pre-order?

[BubblesMcCoy]

Originally Posted by whitworthsa

Wow...that's so neat. Where can I get one? Do I have to pre-order?

I doubt that its compatible with my current system, always ends that way.

[chilly willy]

I've been using the beta version for a while and have been fairly impressed with OS compatibility, there is a small conflict with the optical scanning hardware, it tends to go out of focus after substandard lighting ensues. There also seems to be a small RAM conflict as well but this is usually helped by not using nocturnally.

[Recon]

I have heard about this new thing called a BOOK, they were tossing that word around like candy back while I was in school, but I never really put to much stock into them, they seamed so... static, the book never changed, thus I have opted for another technology called the Internet, some of you may have heard about it... Al Gore invented it I think, maybe not, something about DARPAnet ... dont know hrmmm, oh well.

~Recon

[mm2002]

I have a stack of 'em in my bathroom. Pretty cool little devices.

[navyhmc]

Originally Posted by mm2002

I have a stack of 'em in my bathroom. Pretty cool little devices.

Which one? the Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device or the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus?

[Dive Rong]

Er... is this what you are talking about? YouTube - Middle Ages Tech Support

[robjoubert]

Originally Posted by Dive Rong

Er... is this what you are talking about? YouTube - Middle Ages Tech Support

[mm2002]

Originally Posted by navyhmc

Which one? the Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device or the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus?

The Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device only. I haven't yet integrated the stylus with the toilet setting. I'm working on ideas though. Geez, all this new technology......it blows my mind. Things are progressing faster than I can keep up with.