Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Speed-reader edition of Cory's EST for Java phones
One of the coolest remixes that anyone's done of my books has been the speed reader that Trevor Smith put together, which flashes the books one word at a time, at high speed, inside a Java applet. Though the words fly past so fast that they practically flicker, they are still readable -- there's some heretofore unsuspected talent buried in our brains for parsing sentences when rendered as rapid-fire flashcards.
Now Crutcher Dunnavant has created a speed-reader that runs on Java-capable mobile phones, which makes sense: the screen on a handy is just the right size to show one word at a time. You can install any book on it, though it comes with my Eastern Standard Tribe.
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(Thanks, Crutcher!)
Update: The phone-based speed-reader from Crutcher allows you to import your own next, and now this! Trevor sez, " I've made it easy for people to put their own texts into a speed reader applet, should you meet people who would like to do so. People don't need to know Java, and there is an included example HTML file for easy cutting and pasting into a blog. Oh, and the source code is GPL'ed and included, of course."
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