Images via SpritzThesis candidates and bookworms take notice: Spritz is a reading app that might finally allow you to crush Infinite Jest or those Russian classics in no time.The patent-pending technology, which just premiered at the Mobile World Conference, promotes users to read text one word at a time in Spritz's "redicle," a unique visual frame that the developers designed to enhance reading speed and accuracy.The company elaborates, "Reading is inherently time consuming because your eyes have to move form word to word, and line to line. Traditional reading also consumes huge amounts of physical space on a page or screen, which limits reading effectiveness on small displays." With Spritz, though, text gets highlighted one word at a time in one set location, a development that could improve your experience browsing articles, e-books, or other writing accessible through small displays (ahem, tablets, smartphones, wearables--you name it).Not only does Spritz zone in on the important stuff using hash marks to direct your eyes, but the technology can integrate photos, maps, videos, and more to make e-reading less frustrating. Imagine the extinction of that moment when you pinch your smartphone and the whole page shifts for the worst.While the company can't build the software for every individual platform, Spritz offers PoweredbySpritz™, a developer program that allows websites, apps, and other services to integrate and embed the "redicle" into their content. In theory, the smart watches and wearables of tomorrow could stream that recent Pynchon novel on your wrist in a way that won't melt your corneas.Spritz says the technology is currently available for email, SMS, Closed Captioning, and Digital Books (it divulged, "We are currently working with some big players in this field"). Test out the app here in anticipation of the day you'll finally finish Brothers Karamazov.
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