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Sol Reader puts bookworms right inside their ebooks

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The Sol Reader is priced at $350
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The Sol Reader Bluetooth remote
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The Sol Reader incorporates two side-lit E Ink displays
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The Sol Reader is priced at $350
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If you're a really avid reader, you may resent the visual distractions that keep you from becoming thoroughly immersed in a book. That's where the Sol Reader comes in, as it fills your vision with text.

Looking not unlike a set of VR goggles, the device is linked via Bluetooth to an iOS/Android app on the user's smartphone.

Third-party EPUB files (such as ebooks) are streamed from that phone to the Sol Reader, where their text is displayed in dual side-lit E Ink screens – one for each eye. It should be noted that users can still see their surroundings via their peripheral vision.

The brightness of the warm-white LEDs can be manually adjusted, although an external light sensor also automatically adjusts the brightness according to ambient lighting conditions. It's additionally possible to adjust the diopter range of each eyepiece. This means that glasses or contact lenses shouldn't be necessary for most users.

The Sol Reader incorporates two side-lit E Ink displays
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Other features include an adjustable silicone nosepiece, a wireless handheld remote which is used to scroll and flip pages, plus a claimed 25-hour runtime per two-hour battery charge.

The Sol Reader can be preordered from the Sol website – in color choices of black, silver, gold or blue – for US$350. It should ship this fall (Northern Hemisphere).

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3 comments
Don Martin
Make a version where there is no light leakage so that my wife sleeping at my side is not distracted at night and I am in.
PAV
Make it eliminate blue light, and allow you to have a virtual book with Adjustable font and I'm in!
Ranscapture
Make it play doom and I am in!