Innovation

Sensors on the book will transfer to the reader sensation and emotion of the literary hero

Students of the Massachusetts institute of technology have created a book which by means of special sensor controls will allow the reader to test everything, “on the skin” that worries and the hero feels.

The electronic book traces on what page is  the reader. By means of a special waistcoat which is necessary for carrying while reading, the device during the necessary moment transfers to a body of the reader a vibration. They also "transfer" the reader to the place of the literary hero.

At each change of an emotional or physical condition of the book character on a waistcoat of the user the special signal moves. The book can change a heart beat rhythm, force to hold the breath by means of air cushions, or to raise a body temperature.

On the book 150 light-emitting diodes which change illumination according to atmosphere of a work of art are placed.

According to founders of the book, “the touch literature” belongs to absolutely new area which can reverse the relation to reading.