Forget Mouse and Keyboard, Elektrobiblioteka Controls a Computer With a Book

There ’s a lot of lecture that engineering science is going to kill the book , eBooks specifically . It ’s dependable that forcible playscript are still passably low - technical school , but that does n’t mean they have to stay put that style . peradventure there could be a futurewhere books are actually computer peripherals . If so , the paradigm Elektrobiblioteka is a teaser .

Polish for Electrolibrary , Elektrobiblioteka is a half - artistry installation , half - peripheral project by Waldek Wegrzyn that lets a user actually contain a figurer with a Christian Bible . Granted , it ’s no average Good Book ; it ’s loaded with all kinds of specialised circuitry . Likewise , you do n’t use it to sail your desktop ; you use it to interact with a very specific computer program . Of naturally , this very specifically designed program program is really the only way this coupling makes sense , but the result has potential .

The electronic version of Elektrobibliotekais useable to anyone online , but there are only a match of the physical book prototypes , so you only get to see one half of the pair in somebody . Still , it ’s easy to imagine how a digital component could make physical magazine , books , and newspapers more relevant , or at least less irrelevant . Who ’s to say where this technology is going , if anywhere , but it ’s a neat construct , kind of like a digital pop - up book . perchance , just maybe , it could keep print alive someday . [ ElectrobibliotekaviaPhysOrg ]