Every now and then a new device comes out that asks us to change our perspective of how we see our world with technology in it. The Amazon Kindle is certainly one of these devices. Forcing us to reexamine our perception on how a book should or could be read.

Ideas like this are always great examples of thinking out of the box. Here are a few similar examples of technologies that asked us to change the way we see technology in our lives:

• Apple 2GS
• World Wide Web
• Windows 95
• Pagers and Cell Phones
• CD Players
• Laptop Computers
• iPod
• Web 2.0

Few of these ideas were initially meet with initial consumer and investor optimism. Also after initial release many changes were made to these technologies to become more suitable for consumers. However, when people began to understand the benefit of them and how these technologies could actually improve their lives, (as all the great technologies promise to do so), the demand began to grow exponentially as did the usefulness for these technologies.

I believe that the Kindle Reader is an excellent example of a technology that asks us to rethink the way we read books, and all other written medium for that matter.

These are the types of products that are brought to us by thinking out of the box. Companies are taking large risks to bring us innovation, however, they realize that to bring quality new technologies to market that these risks must be taken.

Here are some articles that further expand on the reasons that the Amazon Kindle is truly a Revolutionary, Innovative, and Multi-Capable device:

Revolutionary

Opinion: Why the Amazon’s Kindle is Revolutionary

Innovative

10 Lessons on Innovation from Amazon’s Kindle

Multi-Capable

Amazon Kindle Does Email and More

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