São Paulo – Using a Lego kit and a computer, a university professor of Austria created a curious way to circumvent the rules of Amazon and the Kindle, reports technology website All Things D. Watch how the contraption below.
The process is simple. Peter Purgathofer put a Kindle in front of a notebook open and with a Lego Mindstorm kit (a set of parts that allows the creation of basic robots), set up a machine with two arms. One button presses successively flip the page e-book on Kindle and either press the space bar. With each page turned, a picture is taken.
After the book was copied, the photos could be sent to any recognition service for text and images ready, the book is copied. “In 2002, the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos said that ‘when someone buys a book, also purchase the right to resell it, lend it or give it away.” After your company has created a device that violates these rights, ” says.
Purgathofer spoke with All Things D and said that it is not fighting the electronic books, but to regain rights that owners had books before. “The owner of a book is more or owner today. Just have a license, “he says.
The Austriandescribes the discipline that teaches at the Technological Institute of Austria as a course on the interaction between society and technology. According Purgathofer, he just scanned a book “to prove the concept” and says not shared with anyone, since it could have “major problems.” Amazon has not commented.
DIY kindle scanner from peter purgathofer on Vimeo.
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