If You Want to Actually Turn Pages on an E-Reader, KAIST Lets You

E-readers are awesome gadgets, but there is one thing that they can't actually do yet: genuinely simulate real page turning.

Granted, you can go from one page to another, or jump ahead by inputting a page number, but you still can't actually dip into the book.

Seeking to make up for this oversight, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has invented the Smart E-book System.

Essentially, it recognizes page-turning gestures (for touch-enabled devices only, obviously) and allows for different ways of going through an e-book, bookmarking a page (so to speak) and even flip through several pages at once.

Alas, since the feature currently relies on some APIs from Apple's iOS SDK, the researchers have to change a few things before the technology is ready.

Hopefully, everything will be wrapped up and every e-reader gets to thrill owners with this capability soon.