Alex E-Book Reader Taunts

Back in October, we introduce to you one and coming e-book reader with two screens. Today, Spring Design has announced that Alex’s E-Book Reader will be available in February 2010, is proud to be a better alternative to books that are not only heavy, but also “can not tweet.”

Alex standard six-inch electronic ink display at the top, similar to the Amazon Kindle, and 3.5-inch Android-powered, color touchscreen display at the bottom. The second screen can work in harmony with accessing the web pages you have loaded into the color screen and then transfer to the e-ink screen above to read better.

Unlike the popular ebook reader, Alex allows users to browse the Web, watch videos, and even listen to music.

Content can be downloaded through the Google Books and Borders. It also features WiFi and can be upgraded to 2GB of storage (when connected with microSD card).

Alex E-Book Reader with price of U.S. $ 400, with 3G-enabled version in the works.

Kindle to Add Accessibility Features for Blind Readers

It was recently announced that Amazon.com Inc. for its two properties Kindle ebook reader will include making it more accessible to the blind and visually impaired users. These new additions are expected in the Kindle included in the summer of 2010, according to Amazon.

While the Kindle has a text-to-speech function that the digital book to read aloud to blind users access to it would require a series of navigation menus that are difficult to go around if they can not see it. This is one of the complaints given by the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both of which declared that they would consider using the Kindle as an alternative to paper textbooks until the gadget will be easier for blind students to use.

The new features that the Kindle will be recorded, is audible menus which allow the machine to speak loudly while navigating through menu options and an option for extra-large fonts to allow people with reduced vision.