{"id":330423,"date":"2010-02-17T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5473647"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:23:23","slug":"the-bookeen-orizon-a-multitouch-ebook-reader-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330423","title":{"rendered":"The Bookeen Orizon, a Multitouch eBook Reader [Readers]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now, the best eBook readers<\/a> are from the big guys—B&N and Amazon—in terms of both the hardware and the convenience of use. But what it someone else developed a killer feature, like multitouch? What then?<\/p>\n

The Bookeen Orizon<\/a> eBook reader, due this May for $250, features a 6-inch, 800×600 display, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1GB of storage, microSD and an accelerometer. It can read both ePub and PDF.<\/p>\n

But its standout feature, the reason anyone is talking about it, is multitouch support on the display. Unfortunately, I can’t come up with a single reason that’d be useful. On LCDs with instantaneous refresh rates, multitouch expands functionality exponentially, from button presses to realtime gestures. On electronic paper, you’re faced with a noticeable, inherent delay every time you’d just like to flip a page.<\/p>\n

Pinch to zoom becomes pinch…screen flashes black…screen flashes white…oops I zoomed too much, but maybe you could make a game out of it or something. [E-reader-info<\/a> via Electronista<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Right now, the best eBook readers are from the big guys—B&N and Amazon—in terms of both the hardware and the convenience of use. But what it someone else developed a killer feature, like multitouch? What then? The Bookeen Orizon eBook reader, due this May for $250, features a 6-inch, 800×600 display, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}