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How it’s done: Book scan
If you ever wanted to know how the millions of book pages for online libraries might be scanned in the future, here are two videos showing one of the robots at work.
The automatic book scanning machine, called ScanRobot can scan up to 2500 pages per hour and is shown in action, scanning an old book from the 16th century, at a speed of about 1250 pages per hour.
The ScanRobot won one of last year’s European ICT Grand Prizes and series-production of…
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Books: Self Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs
While for many Hypochondriacs the Merck Manual of Medical Information might be a bit like a bible for daily / nightly reference, there are other books that help to fulfill the information needs (attention: could already be part of a disease pattern) of Hypochondriacs.
Some take an unusual and in-depth look in scary, unusual and horrible diseases in a slightly humorous way like “The Hypochondriac’s Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have” and others provide general information on diseases.
In difference to these books “The Manual of things that might kill you” is written specifically to address…
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Humor: Instructoart
Instructoart, the web site and the books of Matthew Vescovo, who calls himself the master of the obvious, feature step-by-step guides for everyday life situations or completely obvious things and are of course not intended to be useful.
Our online favorite - The Airkiss.
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Design: Marion Bataille’s ABC3D
If you like pop-up books as much as we do you will love Marion Bataille’s new typography pop-up book ABC3D.
We want one of those and can’t wait until October this year when it will be published…
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Books: American Torture
American Torture - the new book of award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Michael Otterman - reveals how torture became standard practice in today’s War on Terror. The book traces the history of American torture from Nazi Germany to Guantanamo Bay. Rod Barton, former Director of Intelligence, weapons inspector and Advisor to the CIA (Iraq) describes it as an immensely disturbing story made all the more chilling by his disclosures that today these interrogation techniques are officially sanctioned under the guise of national security and that sets of rules have been developed to govern its practice. He also says that this book should be compulsory reading for everyone with concerns over human rights…
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Fun: The Executive Coloring Book
We found this great piece of 1960s thinking put online by “Add to the Bone” …the legendary… the subversive… the long out of print…The Executive Coloring Book…
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A Book for Latin Lovers is becoming a Bestseller
When UK Publisher “Short Books” brought out the first copies of a book for Latin lovers it thought a merely 4000 copies would be well enough. Since then it has become a top seller with unexpected high demands for the little book and they had to print a few 100,000 copies end of last year also to satisfy demands in the US reported to be beyond 250,000 orders already. The book with the title “Amo, Amas, Amat and All That: How to become a Latin Lover” is a primer for the “world’s most influential language” and…
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Happy Birthday Winnie the Pooh
Today its exactly 80 years ago that A. A. Milne’s book on the fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
“Winnie-the-Pooh” was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, followed by “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928), and the poetry books “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We [...]
