Comments on: The TouchBook http://blogs.exbiblio.com/2006/09/05/the-touchbook/ Following the ups and downs of a high-tech start-up in Seattle. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:35:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adam http://blogs.exbiblio.com/2006/09/05/the-touchbook/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Adam Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:57:16 +0000 http://blogs.exbiblio.com/2006/09/05/the-touchbook/#comment-124 The TouchBook technology is interesting. It reminds me of the <a href="http://www.leapfrog.com/do/findproduct?ageGroupKey=grade&key=leappad" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">LeapPad</a> by LeapFrog. I didn't see where to buy one, or how to purchase documents that work with it. I certainly resonate with Jeff's post from AlwaysOn as well as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=exbiblio-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=026269283X%2526tag=exbiblio-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/026269283X%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">The Myth of the Paperless Office</a>. I'll reserve my opinion of the TouchBook until I get my hands on one for a few weeks. A major distinction of Exbiblio is that we are designing products that do not require specialized content such as bar codes, icons, special paper, or even prepared content. Our dream for an integrated world is one in which you can interact quickly and easily with any paper document in your life whether it be a flier on a campus bulletin board, or a resume you are reviewing, or a book of sonnets. It is my own opinion that most of the existing technologies can be useful for specific niche audiences, but that widespread adoption of paper to digital technologies requires at least two things: 1) a highly portable device and 2) integration with all content, not just approved or prepared documents. The TouchBook technology is interesting. It reminds me of the LeapPad by LeapFrog. I didn’t see where to buy one, or how to purchase documents that work with it. I certainly resonate with Jeff’s post from AlwaysOn as well as The Myth of the Paperless Office. I’ll reserve my opinion of the TouchBook until I get my hands on one for a few weeks.

A major distinction of Exbiblio is that we are designing products that do not require specialized content such as bar codes, icons, special paper, or even prepared content. Our dream for an integrated world is one in which you can interact quickly and easily with any paper document in your life whether it be a flier on a campus bulletin board, or a resume you are reviewing, or a book of sonnets.

It is my own opinion that most of the existing technologies can be useful for specific niche audiences, but that widespread adoption of paper to digital technologies requires at least two things: 1) a highly portable device and 2) integration with all content, not just approved or prepared documents.

]]> By: Myself http://blogs.exbiblio.com/2006/09/05/the-touchbook/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Myself Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:25:03 +0000 http://blogs.exbiblio.com/2006/09/05/the-touchbook/#comment-121 Isn't this what :DigitalConvergence was doing with their spectacular failure, the :CueCat? People just weren't enthused by the idea of using dead-tree to make their computer do something. High-density 2d barcodes made sense in the Datastrip era, where slipping a magazine into a reader was better than typing in a program listing. But since the advent of the internet, I don't see a compelling reason to put data on paper. Isn’t this what :D igitalConvergence was doing with their spectacular failure, the :CueCat? People just weren’t enthused by the idea of using dead-tree to make their computer do something.

High-density 2d barcodes made sense in the Datastrip era, where slipping a magazine into a reader was better than typing in a program listing. But since the advent of the internet, I don’t see a compelling reason to put data on paper.

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