Comment Feed for Channel 9 - CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/519217_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil KNFB Reader CEO Ray Kurzweil joined me to talk about the state of e-reading and show us a demo of Blio. Blio is a WPF reading application and bookstore that reads XPS files. They've taken it a step beyond by creating a reader that can match a book to spoken text, play embedded video, or load web content. I can imagine students with something like the multitouch Pegatron slate reading rich media textbooks that update throughout the year. Ray mentions using the cloud to allow you to go from device to device and pick up where you left off and gives us his vision of the next 20 years. en Wed, 22 May 2013 21:34:03 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 21:34:03 GMT Rev9 Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil This is most likely the finest XPS reader that I have seen.  Ray wouldn't put his energy behind a company unless it was producing a best-in-class product.  There has to be something said about the work of compulsive people.  I can't wait to get my grubby little hands on those bits.

posted by Jsoh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986064840000000 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:01:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986064840000000 Jsoh Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil Thanks for sharing with us.

posted by wkeka

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986094020000000 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:50:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986094020000000 wkeka Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil finally some love for XPS.  Wonder what pros-cons they used to decide on xps -vs- pdf.

posted by staceyw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986145250000000 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:15:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633986145250000000 staceyw Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil I see the claim of 1 million books.

that is interesting.

 

so far i have seen a lot of books only done in one format that the publisher supports.

I really hope that what Blio is doing will open up the idea that the book publishers need to offer /or/ allow books to be in many electronic formats and let the buyer decide which format they want.

untill they do that will limit consumer acceptance of this media option.

posted by figuerres

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posted by ciroippolito

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633987819890000000 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:46:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633987819890000000 ciroippolito Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil thank ver

posted by wilai

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633988003400000000 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:52:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633988003400000000 wilai Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil Finally a fine use of the XPS format. I wonder which kind of tools will be available to publishers to make the content (particularly interactive ones).

posted by giovanni

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633994329850000000 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:36:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c633994329850000000 giovanni Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil  

Boy, was I wrong about this.  Total vaporware.

 

 

 

-Josh

 

posted by Jsoh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c634176980470000000 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:14:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/CES-2010-Blio-with-Ray-Kurzweil#c634176980470000000 Jsoh