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...time with saccadic jumps, since there's never more than one word on the screen at a time. The wheel steers you between chapters; the stick shift takes you to the next book. Before you know it, your brain has become some kind of jet-powered Maserati. Reading regular text, you're considered fleet of eye if you hit 400 words a minute; on this device, known as the Speeder Reader, test subjects have been known to manage 2,000 words a minute...
...effective tool for cramming large chunks of information (the technology it is based on is already a big hit with law students), Speeder Reader is proof positive that we also don't have to treat books like slabs of paper that sit on shelves anymore. Printed text, which has remained basically unchanged since Gutenberg first got his fingers inky, is about to bloom into a thousand different forms. The one you use will increasingly depend on what you need to use it for. "The tyranny of the static book is over," says Rich Gold, head of the Research on Experimental...
...intimate voice, laden with strong pauses, directly addressed "the reader who still listens" to the politics of poetry. Shifting to works from Midnight Salvage, Rich read to rows of eyelids; listeners absorbed her words with eyes closed as she shared some of the underlying meanings of her new text...
Samsung put a new twist on the MP3 player with its innovative Photo YEPP ($399). In addition to playing digital music, which is pretty cool in itself, the Photo YEPP has a color screen for displaying text and pictures. It's so nifty, Bill Gates was spotted admiring it on the show floor. In the "old dog, new tricks" department, Sony unveiled the next generation of its Aibo robotic puppy ($1,500). The new pooch--full name ERS-210 (we've come a long way since Rover)--can learn 50 distinct words. Tell it to "take a picture...
...digital voice-to-print recorder ($300 including software) fills the gap. The MS1 records up to 131 minutes of brilliant ideas. Instead of a cassette, it uses a tiny memory card. Pop it into your PC (with an adapter), and the software transcribes your words into a text file. You can even highlight the transcribed text and listen for errors. They're working on the martinis...