Respect for Pages

Here’s a thought pro­vok­ing piece of tech­no­logy in action…but what is par­tic­u­larly intriguing is that it is rep­lic­at­ing the human action of turn­ing pages “so as to avoid hav­ing to dam­age the bind­ing.” It of course begs the ques­tion over how user-defined the nature of the prin­ted media is, but cer­tainly rep­res­ents a won­der­ful adapt­a­tion of machine to the task at hand. Click the photo to go to the manufacturer’s site — there a really cool anim­ated gif of the machine actu­ally read­ing a book. A task it accom­plishes at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour.