What if you took your eReader and separated the processor from the display, putting the bulk of the work into a base station which wirelessly sends the content to the display? That’s what Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos just patented:
Patent #US 20130069865 A1
Inventors: Gregory M. Hart & Jeffrey P. Bezos
Abstract: A remote display system including a portable display that wirelessly receives data and power from a primary station. The primary station, which is remote from and without a tangible connection with the portable display, includes a data transmitting element and a power transmitting element. The portable display includes a power receiving element that receives power wirelessly from the power transmitting element and a data receiving element operable to receive data from the data transmitting element.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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What if you took your eReader and separated the processor from the display, putting the bulk of the work into a base station which wirelessly sends the content to the display? That’s what Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos just patented: