Anyone see e-readers on TV Shows ? - Page 2

Solitaire1 · 03-11-2011, 03:15 AM

Ebook-reader-type devices have appeared in some anime I've seen. Two that come to mind:

"Armitage III" - The characters use a PDA-type device that displays the text in a frame that contains a holographic image (which appears in the air).

"Bubblegum Crisis 2040" - One character has a magazine that she inserts into a device that downloads a new issue into the magazine. The magazine basically a collection of thin color e-ink pages that can be rewritten by updating it.

Ken Stuart · 03-11-2011, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

Ebook-reader-type devices have appeared in some anime I've seen.

Not really what we are talking about here - as mentioned, Star Trek had a reader 30 years ago.

I'm talking about sitcoms and dramas that show present day life.

Billjr13 · 03-12-2011, 11:37 PM

Castle has definitely had a couple of readers on screen, a Kindle, I think I saw him reading a nook, maybe and this season he has had a iPad a couple of times. Nathan Fillion is an iPhone freak and he uses it in the show alot to do searches ect.

James_Wilde · 03-13-2011, 05:42 AM

I have just been watching a special edition of our Good Morning sofa program on Swedish television, which doesn't normally run on Sundays. This one was to handle reporting of the catastrophe in Japan. One of the permanent members of today's panel is Yukiko Duke, a woman we normally associate with book reports, but, as her name implies, she is of Japanese extraction. She has been reporting right through the program on the latest information from the Japanese media, and on her knee she has an iPad.

This is only the second time I have seen what one can call modern technology in a tv program, drama or news. The other was also during the crisis, when the news program had a conversation with a Swedish person studying in the area. Telephones were out, but internet was working - don't ask me how - and their conversation with the person had a photograph of him on one side of the screen and the Skype logo on the other.

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03-11-2011, 03:15 AM	#16
Solitaire1 Samurai Lizard Posts: 14,922 Karma: 69500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: NookColor, Nook Glowlight 4	Ebook-reader-type devices have appeared in some anime I've seen. Two that come to mind: "Armitage III" - The characters use a PDA-type device that displays the text in a frame that contains a holographic image (which appears in the air). "Bubblegum Crisis 2040" - One character has a magazine that she inserts into a device that downloads a new issue into the magazine. The magazine basically a collection of thin color e-ink pages that can be rewritten by updating it.

03-12-2011, 11:37 PM	#18
Billjr13 Addict Posts: 357 Karma: 550002 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Colorado Device: Sony PRS 700 & 650	Castle has definitely had a couple of readers on screen, a Kindle, I think I saw him reading a nook, maybe and this season he has had a iPad a couple of times. Nathan Fillion is an iPhone freak and he uses it in the show alot to do searches ect.

03-13-2011, 05:42 AM	#19
James_Wilde Guru Posts: 802 Karma: 4727110 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Iriver Story	I have just been watching a special edition of our Good Morning sofa program on Swedish television, which doesn't normally run on Sundays. This one was to handle reporting of the catastrophe in Japan. One of the permanent members of today's panel is Yukiko Duke, a woman we normally associate with book reports, but, as her name implies, she is of Japanese extraction. She has been reporting right through the program on the latest information from the Japanese media, and on her knee she has an iPad. This is only the second time I have seen what one can call modern technology in a tv program, drama or news. The other was also during the crisis, when the news program had a conversation with a Swedish person studying in the area. Telephones were out, but internet was working - don't ask me how - and their conversation with the person had a photograph of him on one side of the screen and the Skype logo on the other.

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