… I think I see what you’re missing here. All this time you’ve been thinking small, portable, handheld, modular, when all along the general public has been yearning for a brocaded lampshade.

The above book reader of the future comes from the April, 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics. And the folks at Boing Boing have the right idea… a laudanum kit would put a whole new spin on the concept of “value added.” Just a thought.