Gizmodo: bookmark

Bloody Bookmark Saves Your Page With Liquid Evil

Sean Fallon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:00 EDT

What better way to mark the page in that Halloween horror novel you have been reading than with this bloody bookmark? The set also comes in "mercury" and "milk" versions, but those are for...depression and parenting books maybe? The complete set of three is priced at $29. [Designboom via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Abracadabra Pneumatic Bookmark Pops To Your Page

Benny Goldman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:08:22 EDT

I've seen interesting bookmarks before, but none as practical as the pneumatic Abracadabra design concept. It works like this: the two-chambered bookmark—one filled with air—is placed on a page, and when the book is closed the air is pushed to the outside chamber. To open the book, you simply squeeze the exposed chamber, propping it open wide enough to slip a finger in and pick up where you left off.

I've spent enough time looking for crumpled receipts—my usual placeholders—buried deep in books; I want this thing and I want it now. To top it off, it even comes with its own tree-shaped holder to place your entire Abracadabra collection:

Now, do I need this many unused bookmarks? Probably not. But the pot really ties the room together. [Yanko]

I Honor the Place Where the MARK Bookmark and I Become One

Benny Goldman — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:26:04 EST

Avnish Gautam has designed an amazing concept bookmark that lights up at night and covers the area you're reading. The MARK uses flexible OLED technology on a thin piece of plastic to illuminate the reading area to your preferred brightness. I know when I'm reading the Fake Steve Jobs book, the only thing that irritates me more than that frigtard Tom Bowditch is my dim and clunky book light that is never in the right place. This concept won the Red Dot Award for best design in 2007, so if OLED technology is up to speed expect it to be available sometime soon. Namaste Avnish, and hit the jump for a bonus picture of the MARK in daylight. [Yanko Design]

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Low Tech Gear: The BookSling

Jason Chen — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:15:39 EST

For those of us that can pry ourselves away from our electronics to do some reading—gadget manuals perhaps—here's a low tech device to keep things organized. The BookSling's a bookmark and pen holder all in one, which means you won't forget where you left off or where you left the highlighter.

Nothing extraordinary, but neat nonetheless. Plus, if you enter in "FREEPICO" during checkout and spend more than $20, you'll get a free PicoPad—an in-wallet note pad. – Jason Chen

Prduct page [Every Day Innovations]

Pico Pad [Every Day Innovations]

For One-Handed Lumberjack Wrestling?

Charlie White — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:25:17 EST

All right, you one-handed typists: It's time to start reading books. Yeah, you know, those rectangular things with pages in them? Now you can do some one-handed reading with this new $2.95 thingamajig that holds the book open for you and doubles as a bookmark. And as you can see, it's pretty in pink to get you in the mood. Now beat it.

Thumbthing [Cool Hunting]

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