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Is Bionic Reading the future?
“Reading that feels like the sensation of walking on a moving walkway at an airport.”
“Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye?”
That’s how bionic-reading.com greets the reader — albeit in a giant, bold font and with other lines of text in-between.
Bionic Reading is vaguely similar to the effects of typoglycemia (not to be confused with Spongebob case). Simply put, it's one of many explanations and demonstrations of how and why our brains can read jumbled, transposed words — especially with context.
Bionic Reading, a possibly simpler concept to demonstrate and explain, “aim[s] to promote reading and comprehension of textual content in a hectic and noisy world.”
Okay, sounds great… but how?
“The eye is guided through the text by means of typographic highlights. With the interplay of “Fixation”, “Saccade” and “Opacity” visual stimuli can be transferred to the text, which…
