This is awesome. Guy in Austria built a robot using Lego Mindstorm that presses the Next page on the Kindle, then presses the space bar on his Mac to take a picture of the screen. The image is run through a cloud-based OCR package and a text file is returned.
Totally impractical since you can download software that'll strip the DRM in moments, but still pretty awesome cool.
The creator has a great comment on the Vimeo page quoting Jeff Bezos in an O'Reilly interview talking about people should have the right to share, trade, or sell ebooks, he then turns around and takes that right away from his customers.
http://vimeo.com/73675285http://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
