Look closely at these pictures.
Moving Pictures: Stunning Photographs Brought to Life
This blows me away.
More pictures past the link.
This is just the sort of thing that Apple could do with with iBooks onn the iPad and that Adobe could do with embedded Flash in Acrobat PDF’s. So you can see why Apple disallows Flash on it’s products.
Stephen
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This Isn’t embedded flash. These are just gifs. They could be used as is. Why they aren’t being used is anyone’s guess.
Very Harry Potter like! But future of books…yeah, I think this is the way it’s going, and it should. It’s more significant than television’s evolution from black and white to color. How many times have we been reading a book and wondered, “do I really want to get up and get the dictionary?” Now we can (or should be able to) click on a word and get the definition, perhaps even a moving picture! With sounds! Or in another language. Certainly, books will be incorporating Wii-like experiences in both fiction and nonfiction. Our book and format options are expanding, and as you noted in your recent post about the future, it all looks pretty interesting. May those changing formats engage all of our young people…encouraging them to read, explore, and create.
The Pony Express was never about the ponies. Television was never about the box. Similarly, books are about content. Black and white has resurfaced as a meaningful choice. I expect we’ll see similar discretionary choices made by authors and readers as they create, consume, and communicate.
mmm… Endless brownies!
These are fabulous images, we should definately try and build this type of moving picture into our electronic literature, it really brings the scene to life.