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We may know clearly what book is sold best, what book talks about hot topics, but we seldom know what book tastes the best. Seriously, can we have books for dinner? You must have been kidding. But the special book here says: “Yes, we books could be eaten.” But not in a way like we usually do. In fact, each piece of the book is made from a certain spice, and it is deemed as a perfect replacement to condiment. Just tear a leaf from the book, put it into the pot, a delicious meal will then be done. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Firstly adopted by Tom Caudell in the early 1990s, ‘augmented reality’ has finally reached the December edition of men’s magazine Esquire. After experimenting with things like origami (May edition) and e-ink (October 2008 edition), this time, Esquire will invite the readers to interact with the magazine via a PC. A C++ application is needed to recognize a black and white patterned marker on the printed page and then translate it into a video sequence enhanced by 3D animation on the computer screen. For more details, you’ll have to check them out for yourself.

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The goal of the ‘Sniff Test’ is to measure the degradation of old books, and therefore to preserve them in proper ways.

Most people may not pay special attention to the musty taste released by books, but the scientists have proved 15 chemicals contained in that smell would help us a lot to deduce the age of a book. The method, claimed the researchers, is also applicable to historical artifacts.

Despite eating while reading is not a good habit, most people like me still couldn’t get rid of it. After all, both physical food and spiritual food are important to us. So you must need the Transparent Shield for Books, since it helps a lot to protect your books from food waste while not to effect your reading. Enjoy it.

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The “Infinite Book” by Ewald Neuhofer is a new kind of electronic tools that helps to transform paper into digital media, still satisfying your reading needs to paper copies. Therefore the book allows you to look through digital newspaper by flipping pages, just in the same way as normal books. What’s more, when you flip the previous page backwards, the content is renewed while the pre-content will be restored if you flip the page forwards.

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Knowledge is power and book is the phosphor that lights up the future for us in the dark. That’s just what the gleamy book aims to tell you. Named as “Good Ideas Glow in The Dark”, the book includes over 3000 good ideas that can make our world better and better.

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What have you seen in the pictures, books? Not necessarily. Shaped like an assortment of colored books, the cute article is actually called “BooxStore” that is designed to hide your stuff in a clever way.

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Double book light creates you an easy-reading time! Supplied by three AAA batteries, the dual-head LED light makes everything on the book come clear to you. And the clamp design also ensures it’s convenient to clip the light onto any hard or soft cover books.

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Have you been disliking e-books just because they don’t smell the same as paper books? Now with the “smell of books”, a revolutionary new book-smell aerosol, you can finally enjoy a wonderful e-book time which can compare to the experience of reading a paper book. There are several options, including smells of moldy old books, new books, cats, air-dry Bacon crumbs, and even the smell of Austin farm favored by Jane Austen’s fans.

This idea is from a Italian magazine. What the reader need to do, except for reading the magazine, is to resolve the puzzle by folding the pages to form the face.

It is not so easy as you think about it.

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Although you can write ABC… all by yourself, I’m sure you will like this incredible pop-up alphabet book. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A weird ring? You know what is it use for?

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This is a laser cut artwork based on Olafur Eliasson’s house. It engraves a house in the book (454 pieces of paper) at a scale of 85:1.

Please be more careful while “reading” this book. [Read the rest of this entry...]