From the Australian Design Awards comes a conceptual eBook reader that claims to be the “book of the future.” First thoughts: I love the idea of marrying a touch screen to an eBook device (why hasn’t this been done yet?), I can also appreciate the navigational metaphors as well as the book-like look and feel (though I must admit a preference for the Sony Reader). It’s not clear whether or not this is a functional prototype or just a fancy way of presenting plastic and leather. It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.
