Paper. Ugh. Whenever somebody hands me a business card, a flyer or forces me to use a printer boarding pass sigh, my shoulders drop a little and I weep for the short-sighted idiots behind these backward-looking incidents.
Usually I just snap a photo with my iPad’s camera and recycle the offending ex-tree. But sometimes all I need is a to copy a few lines of info. This is, I guess, where the Radiul Mobile comes in.
It’s a paper holder for your iPad, notebook or netbook. The design is simple: an anodized aluminum block has a pair of legs covered in tiny suction cups to hold it to either the iPad’s screen bezels or the back of a notebook screen. The aluminum block has a curve sliced into it where you slot the paper, and the paper, thus curved, stands up by itself without any supports.
Ingenious, and – if you regularly need to copy details from paper – essential. There’s also a desktop version available, but as this actually sits on the table instead of up on the screen, it mighn’t be so handy.
The Radiul is a Kickstarter project which will cost you around $45 (it’ll be $50 when it goes on general sale). It might be worth that much just to straighten out the crick in your neck.
Source: Kickstarter
Thanks: Adam!
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6 responses to “Radiul, A Paper Holder For Your iPad [Kickstarter]”
I believe that his is not an indispensable accessory in the life of a student. Maybe the ones with benefits the most from using Radiul would be writers.
This is a joke, right? …. Right?
I feel the same way when I go to a website and they tell me I need to update my non-existent Flash player. Why, since they can tell it’s the wrong version, don’t they just serve up something I CAN play – like the H.264 version I get when I use my browser’s “change user agent” choice? This is really stupid, IMHO.
Current CoM model:
Browser: Please serve me this video.
Site: Check for Flash=version 10 – if fail, put up error.
User: WTH? Try again. Abandon original site to roam the dusty halls of Adobe’s Flash repository until they forgot which video they were going to watch and go somewhere else.
Better model:
Browser: Please serve me this video.
Site: Check for Flash=version 10. If fail, serve h.264.
User: Watch video. Enjoy. Click on link to another page or two. Spend more time loading CoM pages. Be happy with browsing experience.
Which of these is better?
looks cool, but it looks like u would lose the paper if there was a wind.
simple but smart idea
but it can be made MUCH BETTER