Spring Design Announces Dual-Screen Google Android-based E-book Reader, Hyperlinking Text with Multimedia

Secondary Color Touchscreen Supplements Text with Web-Based or Any Linked
Multimedia Content; Enables Users to Enhance Original Text with Their Own
Embedded Video, Audio, Photos and Notes

FREMONT, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Spring Design today announced Alex, the first e-book based on Google Android
featuring full browser capabilities and patented dual screen interaction
technology, the Duet Navigator. The Alex livens up text with multimedia links,
adding a new dimension to the reading experience and potentially creating a
whole new industry for secondary publications that supplement and enhance
original text. Alex`s dual-screen display design brings together the efficiency
of reading on a monochrome EPD (electronic paper display) screen while dynamic
hyperlinked multimedia information and third party input on its secondary color
LCD screen, actually an integrated Android mobile device, opens a rich world of
Internet content to support the text on the main screen.

Alex is the first Google Android-based e-book device to provide full Internet
browsing over Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM. With its
dual-screen, multi-access capability, it provides the entire Web universe as a
handy reference library, prompting users to delve into its vast information base
to complement, clarify or enhance what they are reading. Alex is the first truly
mobile wireless e-book device that gives users their own personalized library on
the go, whenever and wherever they need it.

Spring Design pioneered its patented dual-screen device with `touch and extend`
capability in 2007, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and
publishers over the past two years to share its vision and the capabilities of
the dual screen device. Alex brings together the efficiency of an EPD display
with the responsiveness and richness of navigational convenience of the LCD
screen. Its removable SD card gives users extensive storage, allowing them to
expand their text with multimedia "add on" editions.

Ideal for professional, educational and entertainment markets, Alex dynamically
transforms the reader`s experience with images, videos and notes inserted as
`Web grabs` or with custom text created by the user or other secondary authors
pertaining to the subject being displayed. Users can create their own images and
notes and capture them to augment the original text or just dynamically grab
relevant content with Link Notes, Alex`s innovative multimedia authoring tool to
enhance multimedia publishing.

"This is the start of a whole new experience of reading content on e-books,
potentially igniting a whole new industry in multimedia e-book publishing for
secondary authors to create supplementary content that is hyper linked to the
text. We are bringing life to books with audio, video, and annotations," said
Dr. Priscilla Lu, CEO of Spring Design. "This gives readers the ability to fully
leverage the resources on the Web, and the tools available in search engines to
augment the reading experience."

Alex features a 6" E-Ink EPD display and 3.5" color LCD display, earphones and
speakers. A removable SD card will free up library space on the device while
letting users archive content for future reference. The enhanced Android OS is
optimized to support integration between the color and monochrome displays while
preserving battery life. Users can capture and cache web content from their
online experience on the LCD screen, and toggle to view it on the EPD screen
without taxing the battery life. Browser features such as bookmarking, history,
and security settings are built in and the device, with full Android browsing
capability, is mobile-enabled with smart phone capabilities.

Spring Design is currently in discussion with, and enlisting major content
partners and plans to release the Alex device for selected strategic partners by
the end of this year.

About Spring Design:

Spring Design Inc., founded in 2006, delivers innovative e-reader solutions and
products to the e-book market, offering overall "Link Notes", a content
authoring and multi-media publishing tool as add on editions to original text.
Spring Design Inc. is located in Fremont, California with engineering offices in
Taiwan and China. Spring Design Inc. pioneered its patent-pending dual screen
design with Duet Navigator capability in 2006, and has been working with major
book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision
and the capabilities of the dual screen device. Spring Design's innovative
patented technologies incorporate the seamless interaction of dual display and
multi-online access in a single device, benefiting and leveraging the technology
and resources of the Web to enhance the reading experience with "Web Grab".

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Spring Design
Eric Kmiec, 916-337-4528
VP Sales & Marketing
eric.kmiec@springdesign.com
www.springdesign.com
or
Pat Meier-Johnson, 415-389-1700 (Public Relations)
patmeier@patmeier.com

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