Welcome to the future, where everyone is dumb and reality has surpassed fiction once again. This time, maximum levels of idiocy have been reached with the $100 ezRead, a scanner that connects to your television. This is what it does:

Cooler than books on tape and way more fun than subtitles, the ezRead transforms your reading material into televised material.

If that alone is not enough to smack whoever wrote or thought about this product, there's more:

Simply place the ezRead directly on top of a book, magazine, or newspaper to display the magnified image illuminated and in full color right on your television screen.

Yes, because that's what you want to do: Watch TV for hours, reading black letters over white until your eyes drop. One last pearl:

The enlarged image makes the text extremely easy to read. This device is also ideal for reading labels on prescription bottles and more.

Apparently these people have never heard of magnifying glasses. You can read that as many times as you want. It will never make sense. [Scientific Online via Red Ferret]