An innovative book that has built-in links to online multimedia content has made its debut at the American Chemical Society meeting here in San Francisco.
The book is littered with barcodes that can be read by a wireless laser pen. A quick scan can trigger a computer to run related videos of practical demonstrations or molecular animations. Dubbed ChemgaBook, the tome is intended to be a teaching aid whose additional content can be continually updated by the publisher.
“It’s the first time we’ve shown it in public,” said René Deplanque, director of Fiz Chemie Berlin, Germany, who demonstrated his prototype book to Chemistry World on 13 September.
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