Quite commonly we say that there’s valuable knowledge in books, but sometime there’s a comfortable soft pillow inside it too. It is disguised in the same appearance as a dictionary, allowing you to trick others for fun and to enjoy a sleep anytime and anywhere you may want. So how do you like it? Just work hard, and sleep better!
Missing the old days during which you can flip through your paper book pages? You can do the same thing with your digital documents now, with the help of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s new e-reading system. It brings several book-like capabilities to tablets and smartphones, allowing the users to flip through pages or riffle through the whole sheaves of them, both forwards and backwards. Except for that, the system also features some functions that are not aren’t necessarily book-like, such as to control how many pages are flipped by varying either the number of fingers applied to the screen, the speed of finger gestures, or the amount of time that the finger is applied. In the video below, you may learn more information about the e-reading system, please just go through to click it.
Mountains, rivers, temples, almost everything we see in daily life would appear in another world constructed by Guy Laramee using merely books. It’s really incredible, as all these 3D book sculptures not only feature impressive grandeur but also come with surprising details. Again it proves that in the artists and designers’ world, everything is possible.
This is a unique electrical switch designed for your books. It is subtly hidden inside your books and turns your light on when you move the book, while it doesn’t bring any damage to the books. So what do you think, pull out your favorite book to turn a light on or turn on a light to find your favorite book?
A really great artist can create wonderful things almost anywhere – on walls, grounds, lips, eyelids, or on book pages. Look at these paintings from Mike Stilkey, I bet everyone would think of one same word “wow”. But wait, and imagine what will happen when these books fall apart onto the ground… [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you ever had a dream to sleep within a book, Yusuke Suzuki’s Child’s Play is rightly the thing for you. It is a page turner of a bed shaped like an oversized book, with its pages serving as quilts and bookmarks as pillows. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Long-Bin Chen’s Reading Sculptures prove that incredible art can be made with almost everything, even with discarded items. With his rich imagination and outstanding skills, the artist has transformed old telephone directories, old books and other printed material into sculptures shaped like human heads and figures. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Great books enable us to see the world from a different aspect and to experience wonderful things within the world. Likewise, these books tell good stories too, not via word but via sculptures. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Usually we call one lamp a “book lamp” simply because it is designed to ensure you a reading time in the night, but now we call this lamp created by Zheyan Hong a “Book Lamp” also because it is shaped like a book. Comprising of 18 layers that go towards the inner structure, the lamp also features two magnets that help you control its light and shape conveniently. So just get the “Book” for your books! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Time again daily life proves to be an important resource of inspirations and Daniel Baek come up with the idea of creating a unique lamp that can support the weight of a book when the German student read books in bed. Named as Hang Book, the new lamp not only offers enough light to ensure you a comfortable reading, but would hold your book in the air when you fall asleep. So whenever you’d like to read in bed, you can always easily find the book. Nice work! [Read the rest of this entry...]
A ring that features a mini book to record your sweet time. Or a book that comes with a small ring to create the easiest-to-carry memo pad. Whatever the item means to you, it’s obviously the thing that makes everybody smile. Yaps, we love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The cheapest and simplest way we’ve found to keep our trousers clean when a chair or stool isn’t available is to sit on a piece of paper or a book. And that’s essentially the same concept behind the “Take a Seat” built by Darris Hamroun. It’s a foldable chair that looks like a book. Whenever you’d like to sit, you open the book, and then you use it as a chair. Simple buy pretty good! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Where is the little whale? Wow, it has been totally absorbed by the interesting story in the book! Don’t you want to know what story that is? Check it out then. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Continue to read your book? Hey, just check out where I am standing. Come on, I’m almost flattened. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Don’t you ever find you’re making great tweets that deserve your buddies’ special attention? If so, why not print some books with 200 of your greatest tweets as content and your username on the cover? Since Christmas is coming nearer, possibly you could send such books as gifts to your friends. [Read the rest of this entry...]
