Kobo is making a distant management for its line of ereaders. The appropriately-named Kobo Distant prices $30 and shall be out there to buy on November 4.
A distant management for an ereader could appear foolish to some, however avid readers will probably admire this accent. It is principally a wi-fi web page turner, so customers can lay in mattress and browse all day with out having to bodily maintain the system or prop a hand as much as push a button each 30 seconds. Kobo is looking it “the perfect studying companion.”
It has been custom-built for Kobo merchandise and shall be out there in each black and white, which matches the corporate’s different merchandise. It might probably combine with any Kobo ereader with Bluetooth performance, which incorporates the Libra 2 and the well-reviewed Clara Color.
“In a Canadian winter, we all know that generally most studying consolation means burrowing down within the blankets, tucking your self in and never rising till spring,” mentioned Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn. “The Kobo Distant is the right accent for peak immersive studying; it’s an invite to lounge deeper, multitask smarter and easily get pleasure from studying with out limits, irrespective of whether or not your surroundings is seashore or blankets.”
The distant shall be out there in a number of areas, together with the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Singapore, Japan and plenty of others. The corporate says it will be sharing extra particulars concerning the distant quickly, however we aren’t certain what particulars may very well be left to share. It is a distant management for an ereader. Possibly it may possibly do one or two surprising issues.
