IPhoneBooks – the future?

Following on from Sam’s Digital Diary post yesterday, I thought I’d share this.

The concept, dreamed up by Mobile Art Labs, Japan, is the perfect solution to the problem of the Iphone being too small for tiny child hands. But the real gem here is how technology is used to add value to books, and keep kids interested in them, rather than setting itself up in opposition to them.

As the website explains,

The keyword of Phone Book is “Analog on the Digital Technology”; it combines digital value of iPhone and analogue advantage of books.

It’s true, there are some things the book is better suited for. In our technological excitement, it seems that we sometimes forget that the book is perfect in many ways. If it were a riddle, it would seem nigh impossible to fit so much information in such a small space. That was before microchips, though.