AllThingsD » electronic media reader http://allthingsd.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:45:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Boy, Apple’s Design Aesthetic Really Didn’t Rub Off on Kindle 1.0 at All, Did It? http://allthingsd.com/20090506/boy-apple%e2%80%99s-design-aesthetic-really-didn%e2%80%99t-rub-off-on-kindle-1-at-all-did-it/ http://allthingsd.com/20090506/boy-apple%e2%80%99s-design-aesthetic-really-didn%e2%80%99t-rub-off-on-kindle-1-at-all-did-it/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 10:45:37 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=16992 kindle_patentWhat propitious timing. At a press conference in New York later this morning, Amazon (AMZN) is expected to announce a new large-screen Kindle designed for reading periodicals and textbooks. And yesterday, on the eve of the announcement, came word that the company had been awarded a patent on the original Kindle design. The patent, #D591,741, is entitled “Electronic media reader” and it makes just a single claim:

“The ornamental design for an electronic media reader, as shown and described.”

About as exciting as the original Kindle design it describes, but this isn’t a utility patent, so you can’t really expect much from it. That said, the reference citations it contains are interesting. Among the devices included: the iRex iLiad, the NUUTbook an early prototype of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s XO laptop and Apple’s MacBook Pro.

Note: Be sure to see the liveblog of the Amazon announcement in New York by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka, starting at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

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