For two years I have been monitoring a Pennsylvania project in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that just might be "The Next Big Thing". Although I haven't played the stock market during the past 20 years because I felt that would alter my judgement on just who might be the winners.
But, I did invest in EVERYBOOK, now known as the EB Journal as it approaches launch time. Instead of developing a computer to hold a book, the creators of this device decided to put a computer inside the book! Daniel Munyan, company founder and President, and his right-hand engineer and Executive Vice-President, Ken Kramer have come up with this:
A recent front page feature in the popular Vancouver Sun NETWORKS Section by writer Gillian Shaw recently put it this way:
"Everybook confirms futurist's concept
The downloading of novels or newspapers moves closer to reality
Gillian Shaw, Sun Business Columnist Vancouver Sun
Vancouver futurist Frank Ogden was just a little ahead of his time in 1993 when he wrote The Last Book You'll Ever Read.
Today he holds the virtual book he envisioned then and it's slated to reach store shelves in time for Christmas."
"The old concept was to stuff a book into a computer," said Ogden, who was asked to evaluate a prototype of the Everybook, an electronic book reader developed by the Pennsylvania-based Everybook Inc.
"Now we're putting a computer into the old paradigm of a book," said Ogden, known widely as Dr. Tomorrow.
The latest in a roster of electronic book readers, the Everybook demonstrates a partnership with Adobe Systems Inc. that enables the conversion -- using Adobe Portable Document Format -- of books and other text to a digital format."
The EB Journal when closed looks like a large, leather-bound book.
When opened it reveals two touch-sensitive color computer screens. It has the capacity to hold every book in the world (not all at once, mind you) in every language. The tiny PC card that fits into a slot on the side can hold your personal library -- of just 2,000, 300-page books.
The EB Journal itself can hold almost anything: books, magazines, newspapers, high resolution still pictures, videos, music, stock sounds, the Internet, World Wide Web and innumerable links thereto.
Lawyers can carry libraries of resource materials under one arm ... and get updated information automatically.
Students and Academics can enjoy the classics in their original form, complete with etchings, classic fonts, and footnotes.
Medical Professionals on the run can read their journals and reference books in full color, with easy-to-view charts, graphs, and formulas, as well as high-resolution photographs and illustrations.
Thanks to its cutting-edge technology, the EB Journal is poised to take its place as the natural extension of the traditional book.
And, since it's "wireless out of the box" you can interact directly with say, Ananova, the worlds first synthetic newscaster. She works 24 hours a day. In every language.
