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The reading game is about to change forever. Boston-based software developer Spritz has been in “stealth mode” for three years, tinkering with their program and leasing it out to different ebooks, apps, and other platforms.
What Spritz does differently (and brilliantly) is manipulate the format of the words to more appropriately line them up with the eye’s natural motion of reading.
The “Optimal Recognition Point” (ORP) is slightly left of the center of each word, and is the precise point at which our brain deciphers each jumble of letters.
The unique aspect of Spritz is that it identifies the ORP of each word, makes that letter red and presents all of the ORPs at the same space on the screen.
In this way, our eyes don’t move at all as we see the words, and we can therefore process information instantaneously rather than spend time decoding each word.
- EliteDaily.com
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This could seriously enhance and speed up reading incredibly - and allow for novels, news, textbooks etc. to be read on mobile phones easily and quickly.
Try it for yourself with the demo at
http://www.spritzinc.com. I think it's amazing and check out
The Science part of the website - informative stuff about reading too. My mind has been blown.
I feel like it's sort of essentially like watching a TV though, like you're not "reading" in a traditional sense, you're just watching a bunch of frames go by... After reading I feel like my diction and syntax are way better for a little while, I wonder if it'd have the same effect reading with this. I think it'd be a lot less fun to read with if the book you're reading has a high level vocabulary rather than just basic one-syllable words like in the tutorial. 
it works 