Vitamin B, by Jannes Peters & Rahul Sen, 2005, Umea Institute of Design, Sweden
taken from “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpM2HwthKxM”
“This concept aimed to create a suitably thought-provoking ‘experience prototype’ to demonstrate scenarios for book-reading in a digital environment. Vitamin B attempts to transform the notion of ‘form’ and ‘interaction’ in a book and in a library by bringing the experience to the table instead of an old ‘dusty’ building.
The prototype aimed to combine the dynamism and flexibility of a digital document (e.g. a pdf file or quick-time movies) with the joy of reading a real book and demonstrates the experience of reading a book in which pictures can actually come alive, stories can be read, listened to, copied, pasted etc.
The aim was to provide a tangible tool to visualize scenarios which would broaden definitions of stories, books, libraries and reading in our lives.”
This experiment demonstrate a possible scenario for tomorrow’s readers whereby the physical book are replaced by the “digital” book. The mere idea of challenging the ‘form of a book’ is something that would have been inconceivable until some time for traditional book-ethusiasts but this digital format of reading books will more or less be a great step in changing the way we read books.
