{"id":211861,"date":"2025-10-14T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:31:09","slug":"kobo-makes-a-wireless-page-turner-for-ereaders-pickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211861\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobo makes a wireless page turner for eReaders \u2013 Pickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite possibly the laziest gadget you\u2019ll come across all year, there is now a remote page turner for a device within an arm\u2019s reach of your body.<\/p>\n

Every day, this journalist wakes up excited to see what sort of technology will greet him. Gadgets to solve problems, and come up with ways to change the world and how people will use it, and some of it is truly exciting.<\/p>\n

And then there are other days where technology releases leave you scratching your head, as if to ask \u201cwhy\u201d.<\/p>\n

This week might have one of those, as Kobo announces a new gadget designed for people who love reading an eBook, but might not want to touch their screen to turn a page.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a new feature per se where the screen is monitoring your eyes to work out when you\u2019re ready to turn the page, nor is it you simply calling out \u201cturn page\u201d and have the eReader listen. Rather, it\u2019s a gadget called the \u201cKobo Remote\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Kobo Remote is basically a Bluetooth button on a strap that allows you to trigger the next page on a Kobo eBook reader such as the Libra Colour<\/a> or Sage<\/a> without touching the screen.<\/p>\n

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And it will cost $44.95 when it launches on November 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not entirely sure why the Kobo Remote is needed, let alone what problem it solves that your hands couldn\u2019t do. You\u2019re already going to be holding a touchscreen eReader sized between 6 and 10 inches within arm\u2019s reach from your face, and so reaching out to turn the page simply by touching that touchscreen doesn\u2019t seem like much effort.<\/p>\n

And yet, Kobo has made this gadget all the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that sometimes maximum reading comfort means burrowing down in the blankets, tucking yourself in, and becoming completely absorbed in the story,\u201d said Michael Tamblyn, CEO of Rakuten Kobo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kobo Remote is the perfect accessory for peak immersive reading; it\u2019s an invitation to lounge deeper, multitask smarter and simply enjoy reading without limits, no matter whether your environment is beach or blankets. We look forward to sharing more details soon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the time of publishing, Kobo hadn\u2019t confirmed how the remote worked, and whether it\u2019s just a Bluetooth version of a volume key, which is basically how selfie sticks work to trigger phone cameras<\/a>. As it is, the Kobo Stylus lacks a button to trigger the next page, so you can\u2019t use that, either.<\/p>\n

Frankly, we\u2019ve never been so deeply engrossed in reading a book that the mere action of turning a page has been seen as difficult or exhausting in the slightest, but if the idea of touching a screen bothers you, this gadget will be out in November made for just one purpose: turning the page of an eReader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quite possibly the laziest gadget you\u2019ll come across all year, there is now a remote page turner for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,130241,130242,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-211861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ereader","11":"tag-kobo","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}