OK, so here's what I need and why...

I have taken to reading on the Iliad while eating.
This became very comfortable once I started propping up the Iliad on an easel or easel-like contraption (whatever's handy, Legos, stacks of books...) in order to achieve a nice viewing angle.

Here's the problem, though - to turn the page, I need to put down either the fork or the knife. Also, using the flipbar shifts the propped-up Iliad a little bit to the left, so after a couple of turns, I need to readjust the easel's position.

It seems what I need is some kind of remote control - either the old-fashioned kind where I push a button, or maybe something more sophisticated, like a foot pedal or The Clapper or those whistle-things for keychains ...

Who's gonna step in and make this little item for me?

Actually this would also be great for people without arms.
I bet you can make a foot flipbar, with several additional buttons, so you can handle the iLiad completely with your feet. Would just need a proper USB driver and a newly designed footwork thingy. Maybe there is even such a footmouse on the market, that can be used.

And i do think you're dead serious.

Had we a microphone, you could click the tongue, or even use a sort of Kalaharian speech code. Humming is a idea, too.

There are some cameras for compact flash and or SD card; you could use them to detact face gestures.

You could make a contraption to press the screen using a wacom pen... remember that the wacom does not need to touch the screen, just to be 1cm of the screen when it is pressed.

Why not suggest some kind of auto-page flip...?

Youy could write a timer app. that could turn pages, and configure it for specific time intervals.

Who's gonna step in and make this little item for me?

Do you have the juice to supply an iLiad SDK?

Actually another great application of the foot switch would be for musicians.... it'd be an easy way to display digital music!

Everything is available via USB these days. For example, X-keys has a foot pedal (http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php), and other interesting programmable USB devices. These can all mimic a USB keyboard, and so should in principle work on the ILiad.

I think maybe a camera to recognize where my eyes are looking. When I get to the last line it can turn the page for me. I'm really lazy.

Everything is available via USB these days. For example, X-keys has a foot pedal (http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php), and other interesting programmable USB devices. These can all mimic a USB keyboard, and so should in principle work on the ILiad.

Why not get a mouse and have some fun with the iLiad.

Dale

I just mentally command the page to turn... No wait, I have a Kindle. Some features not available outside the US... 8?)

LOL, go get a pair of chopsticks

I cannot test it atm, but there is the usb-keyboard 'driver' - somewhere in the software-release-forum. And I think the left/right buttons or page up/down was what the flip-bar was mapped to.

So in the end you need a cheap-usb-keyboard (one you don't mind to trample upon) and a long usb-cable. The rest fine-motorical movement of your toes :).

And I think tribble said what makes this really a useful approach, if you have no hands or miss some motorical control or simply have jam or honey on your fingers, you would not want to touch your hallowed iLiad :).

Cheers, bon appetít!
Nergal

This might be an ideal substitute for the "keyboard".

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook_products/presenters/devices/175&cl=ch,de

The tongle of this device actually behaves like a keyboard, pressing "page up" and "page down", if you press the forward/backward buttons on the presenter