Core77 One Hour Design Challenge eBook Winner
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12.24.07
We continue to be fascinated by the concept of ebooks; why carry around a bound pile of paper when what you really want are words. The Kindle doesn't do it for us or others; so the Core77 team held a one hour design challenge to come up with a better one. Now the results are in; the eScroll that we showed earlier won the prize.
Now there was no clock running, but if this is the kind of stuff these designers come up with in an hour, I want to see what they can do in a week.
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I think this is dreadful looking from an appearance & performance perspective.
It reminds me of a medical container used in a hospital, or a vial that has a persons prescription written onto the side.
I'll stay with a book that has actually stood the test of time, they're pretty hard to improve upon. Considering how long books have been around, I'm sure there have been attempts many times in the past to "improve" upon them.
Just because you can fiddle with a concept doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.
If my Palm Z22 had a solar panel and a slightly larger screeen, it would look like the model at the bottom. I'm sure that THAT is not to complicated a wish.
And while e-ink might look like a pretty ugly sort of "improvement" over paperbacks, a lightweight touchscreen hanheld is something really marvellous to read newspapers, magazines and books on.
I really like the winning design, it experiments with the form and gives you the analog control which usually is replaced by digital buttons with new technology, The white case does look alittle clinical, if not alittle errm, how can I say sexually entertaining ;) though not being a particularly ill person I didnt see the medical side of it.. to me its more like a marker pen which seems like a reasonably cool thing to be carrying around with you.
I'll have mine in black please :)