An Alternate Take on Booklights

Here's a peculiar device that, if the reviews are to be believed, a subset of book readers love: The AwesomePre , a portable book light designed by Seoul-based ID firm Bebop . Rather than being a light that shines on your book from a distance, it instead resembles a screen and is placed atop the page. The device uses an LED technology developed by client MemsLux, which apparently uses "light wavelengths most comfortable to the eyes." The obvious use case is if you're reading in bed and don't want to disturb a sleeping partner. I could also see this being useful on airplanes, where I find the r