Seraph Libre eBook Reader

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Seraph Libre eBook Reader

• Jason Oh
• Eugene Bialczak
• Oleg Elkhunovich

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Product Transition

• HaloGrafix PS
• Interactive digital photo frame
• Limited information display as added value
• Color display 12 x 10 x 2 device, 3 lbs
• Sage HaloPS
• Emphasis on role as peripheral information
• Added capability to display eBooks
• Color display 10 x 8 x 2 device, 2 lbs

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Seraph Libre

• Dedicated eBook reader
• Monochrome display
• 7 x 6 x 0.7, 1 lb
• 950 mAh Li Polymer battery, 20 hours
• Hermetically sealed
• Diminished role of Bluetooth

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Market Segment
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Market Segment (contd)
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Clean Interface

• Highly intuitive
• Minimal learning curve
• 4 or 6 buttons
• Power
• Set bookmark / Retrieve bookmark
• Next file / Previous file
• Page scroll

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Accelerometer Page Turn

• One-button trigger interface
• Permits analog (variable) range of input
• Provides tactile method of page turn
• Superior and more functional than buttons
• Simpler and more intuitive than dial

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Software Prototype

• Bluetooth as synchronization interface
• Simpler interface to adding/deleting files
• Support for Palm .doc, Microsoft .doc, Adobe
  .pdf, Microsoft .lit, .txt, .ps

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Current Work Form

• User studies
• Foam prototypes
• 3-D printouts of popular forms
• Build functional prototypes around LCD

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Current Work Software

• Artist renderings
• Necessary functions
• Refined software prototypes
• User studies for simpler interfaces

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Final Prototype

• Software interface for synchronization
• 6.3 monochrome LCD display
• Variety of favorite forms to fit over LCD
• User studies to adjust software and form