By Ed Nawotka
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
IDEO here offers three fascinating new e-book tablet software concepts. Each involves a form of social networking — one oriented toward the news, a second toward your personal network, and the third is a multi-model storytelling concept that features a kind of geo-caching element to unlock new features of a given book. The third, in particular, is especially intriguing.
(But why did they feature the tablet in the first one with a decades old film camera? It’s a visual metaphor for the old world meeting the new, I suppose).