In the Stacks
With Google digitizing all the world’s printed material, home libraries could easily be replaced by a device like this. The Bookshelf PC won Microsoft’s Next Generation Windows PC Design Competition earlier this year. Each “book” serves a specific function, such as housing a home library or cataloging a music collection. Books can be checked out and plugged into other systems, letting users loan them, swap them, or take them anywhere — like dime-store novels, only more high-tech.