The Livre, designed by Nedzad Mujcinovic, a student at at Monash University, is vying with Amazon’s Kindle to become the next-generation e-book reader.

The design won a Dyson Student Award in 2007. Perhaps the most important feature that makes this gadget stand out is it’s simple, easy-to-use gesture input scheme. Instead of pressing buttons, you simply slide your finger from corner to corner to turn pages, somewhat like a real book. Sliding two fingers skips by 10 pages, and three fingers goes 50 pages ahead.

The touch surface overlays an e-paper (or e-ink) surface, which is standard for these sorts of e-book readers. What does set it apart is the leather stitched cover, making the device resemble a real book.

Livre seem set to bridge our gap between traditional books and their digital counterparts. A device like this could help us transition to e-books with ease due to its intuitive nature. We hope to see a real-life version of Livre in stores soon, so Nedzad better work on making this a reality. Another pic after the jump. Read more »

This glove, designed by Du Tran Nguyen at Monash University, turns the back of your hand into a GPS receiver created to allow you to track your position at all times on its e-paper display.

It is designed for athletes, mainly runners, to be able to plan out routes and track their speed and other relevant information. Feedback from the glove on the display or from a vibrating alert can let them know if they are going too slow or too fast, or if there is a turn coming up. The system is fully customizable.

The glove can also communicate with other Vies via Bluetooth as well as send out an SOS in case of an emergency.

Although it certainly looks cool, we doubt many people have a necessity for a glove like the Vie. However, some rich runners could definitely benefit from a gadget like this.

It looks like we have another concept gadget riding on the e-paper craze. TicketTime aims to fix time zone problems by having the correct time at your destination preset on a thin, detachable watch when you pick up your boarding pass.

The watch comes off of the boarding pass and can be worn around your wrist like a normal wristwatch, or it can stay attached if you prefer. It also doubles as your return ticket and is returned to the airline during check-in.

TicketTime would eliminate the need to change time zones on your cell phone or regular wristwatch and would be a great help for frequent travelers. Unfortunately, we don’t see this one becoming a reality as it seems just a wee bit more expensive than a plain old paper ticket.

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Following the many recent e-paper gadgets popping up is a design from Serina Sung. If flipping the pages of your music score at a concert isn’t your thing, than the EMS (E-Paper Music Score) is just for you.

The EMS gets its notes from a computer via bluetooth and then gloriously displays them on the flexible e-paper surface that can be unrolled from its neat carrying position. There is also an included bluetooth foot pedal which wirelessly turns the pages without any need to take one hand away from the instrument.

This is a great concept, but until e-paper becomes common and cheap it’ll have to stay as just that. We’d rather fork out $5 for a metal stand at the local music store for now.

The Chocolate Agency has created an e-paper snap bracelet which gives you the ability to carry an MP4 player right on your wrist and look good doing it.

The entire surface is a display which is thin, high contrast, and power efficient. It can be taken off your wrist and unwrapped so that you can view the whole screen at once. The length is adjustable via magnetic clasps that can be added or removed, allowing the device to fit on any wrist.

The best part? You don’t have to plug this baby in, or even change its batteries. The device is powered by the kinetic energy created when you move your arm around.

As this is an MP4 player, we expect it to be able to show e-books, photos, and videos. Or, you could just use it as a trendy watch. A headphone jack, however, seems to be missing. It would be nice to play music from this puppy as well. Pics after the jump. Read more »