Grüezi (Hello) everyone,

I have to post a short statement because unfortunately I can’t handle all the messages. Please read the whole text so you understand who and what Bionic Reading is. Also all of you who are copying Bionic Reading and putting it out there for your idea. Please read it.

Werner von Siemens says: “It is not essential to run through the wall with your head, but to find the door with your eyes.”

Bionic Reading is not a big company. Bionic Reading consists of me, Renato Casutt, and 2 super cool guys who support me with their know-how in software development. I didn’t take money from investors but invest everything from my income. And I spent a lot of money because I believe in the idea and the benefit for people.

The idea of Bionic Reading was born already in 2009, during my studies to become a typographic designer. Only in 2016 I started to develop Bionic Reading. I did my work in the family business during the day and worked on Bionic Reading in the evening and at night.

I tested and trashed. Tested and trashed. And that for the last 6 years. What looks so simple now is based on a matrix I designed to make Bionic Reading available as an individual reading method. So that each reader can use their own reading setting. And of course, through the experience of the still very many options I have developed, which I want to implement step by step in Bionic Reading.

In spring 2020 I put all my efforts on one card and worked 100% for Bionic Reading. Without pay, of course. And that’s okay. I believed in the reading method. 

Now it is 6 years that I have been working on Bionic Reading. This spring I was allowed to do a small preliminary study with a Swiss University. The Swiss Institute InnoSuisse supported me and donated an amount for this preliminary study. Again, many thanks to both of them.

The preliminary study consisted of 12 probands who did not know Bionic Reading. It was tested whether reading on the screen is better with Bionic Reading or not. There was a text without BR and a text with a fixed setting (1 variant) with Bionic Reading. The experiment was independent and carried out by the Swiss University. The results are not clear. But it can be said that the majority had a positive effect. But of course there were also probands who found the effect disturbing. It has not been explicitly tested whether it is helpful for people with dyslexia or not.

That Bionic Reading helps people with dyslexia I received directly from the people concerned. And that made me extremely happy. The feedback I have received over the years has of course been integrated into the further development. As I explain in the YouTube video, the product is for all readers who want to use Bionic Reading.

I hope you now understand who and what is behind Bionic Reading. Please support me in making Bionic Reading available worldwide as a reading standard. Why not.

Best regards from the Swiss Alps,
Renato

A warm “Grüezi” from Switzerland. My name is Renato. I am the founder and creator of Bionic Reading. It gives me great pleasure to introduce myself shortly, because we are developing a product for you. For people of all colors. And that’s why it’s only right and important for us to let you know who’s behind the product. Namely also a human being.
As already mentioned, I come from Switzerland. I am a typographic designer and have been dealing with type, form and how text can be optimally received for over 25 years.

How I came to Bionic Reading is a somewhat strange story. During my studies, I was asked to design a book for a Swiss bestselling author. A small competition at our school. However, this book author did not write his texts in written German, but in a form of the Swiss language, which I did not understand with reading. So I noticed that I have great difficulties to read the text.
It was different when the author told something in his own language. There I could absorb every word and immediately understood the context. That is, by listening, my brain knew this language very well. But when I read, of course, that was gone, because we absorb textual information through the eye. I then realized what the reason for this could be. I never read in this language, so my brain doesn’t have a vocabulary that it can match.
And I had to change that. I then realized that I only need single fragments of the words to tell my brain: hey, you know a very similar word. So use that. Because it has the exact same meaning. I then converted word by word into Bionic Reading and translated it for my brain, and could suddenly read and understand the whole text. Small studies at school then showed that this form had another side effect. Namely, my classmates could also read faster as a result.

That was the beginning of taking a closer look at Bionic Reading. I now wanted to find out for whom this form of reading is also very helpful and created smaller test products. And look, I and my classmates were not the only ones who wanted to use this individually customizable form of reading.
There were CEOs, students, moms and dads, people from every conceivable background in society. They were people with reading difficulties. People who read very much or very little every day. The feedback was incredible.

And now we are launching our first product and hope you like it. We know that this is just the beginning. We have the path in front of us. But the end is still a long way off.

Good luck and have fun with Bionic Reading. Take care and stay healthy.
Ciao from Switzerland.