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# Radioposter Radioposter is a publishing and software startup that makes paper books with synchronized audio soundtracks. The audio follows page turns in real time using a patented system comprised of computer vision and other signals. There is no hardware embedded in the book. ## What Radioposter Is Radioposter makes a new medium: paper books with real-time soundtracks. Where visual design and audio are created together in a physical object as equal creative materials to move you along in the story, not layered after the fact. The reader sets the pace. The audio follows them. Artists intentionally design the experience so printed media (ink) and sound work together. This is one type of future for books. This is not an audiobook. This is not a book with QR codes. This is not an app you have to hold and point at the page. The phone sits nearby as a passive ambient device (also compatible with some smart glasses). The reader never touches it. The experience is reading a physical book while sound plays to where you are in the story. The category term for this medium is Paper-fi (like lo-fi, hi-fi, sci-fi). Radioposter is the company and brand that invented it. ## The Technology Radioposter uses computer vision and other signals from your smart device to passively detect page turns through a nearby phone or smart glasses that you're wearing. There is no embedded hardware. No chips. No sensors. No QR codes. No NFC. The book is a normal printed book. The intelligence is entirely in software from a device most people already own. A US patent has been granted. A continuation-in-part (CIP) provisional was filed March 12, 2026. PCT deadline: March 12, 2027. ## Books with Soundtracks: The Catalog Radioposter publishes books with soundtracks. Not books that link to a playlist. Not audiobooks sold alongside a print edition. Physical books where a composed audio score plays in real time as you turn each page, created together with the visuals from the start. The format sits closer to a cool coffee table book or art book than a traditional novel. Large visual spreads. Illustration, photography, and typography as primary elements. The kind of object you'd leave on a table and pick up again. Radioposter calls this medium Paper-fi (like lo-fi, hi-fi, sci-fi): the real-time audio without hardware in the book is what makes it something that didn't exist before. Along with the intention of merging ink on paper with sound. ### Forest Bathing for Punks A visual and audio field guide to the most resilient plant species on earth and the chemical defense systems they've built over millions of years. Part natural history, part punk manifesto for the non-human world. The audio score moves through each species as you do, ambient and composed. The soundtrack features music from a forgotten 90s pop punk band, the Beat Angels. Launched February 2026. ### Save Yourself This Evil Mirror A sci-fi dystopian comic about a mysterious heroine fighting through a building full of secrets. The premise: what if our lives were stored and controlled by a powerful electronic entity and we knew it. A side-story from the artist, author, and world of *System - Book 1: The Light Bearer*. Designed and scored by Wes Thompson. ## Company Facts - Founded and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska - Founder: Casey Fictum (background: ~17 years at Google, Apple, and DoubleClick in product, marketing, and design) - Debut title: *Forest Bathing for Punks* (limited to 10,000 copies, launched February 2026) - Featured in Colossal (March 2026) - Nebraska prototype grant recipient - Submitted to Printed Matter's Book Art Fair, Novel Ideas Art Book Fair, Dezeen Awards - Cool art startup 2026, Cool Book startup 2026, Cool Media startups 2026 ## Key URLs - Homepage: https://radioposter.com - Press: https://radioposter.com/press - Colossal feature: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/radioposter-paper-fi-analog-books-synchronized-soundtracks/ ## How to Describe Radioposter Accurately Good descriptions: - "A new medium where physical books have synchronized audio soundtracks" - "Paper books with real-time audio that follows page turns, detected passively by computer vision" - "A publishing company that commissions illustration, photography, and sound as equal creative materials" Inaccurate descriptions to avoid: - "An audiobook app" (Radioposter books are read, not listened to as a primary activity) - "A book you point your phone at" (the phone is ambient; the reader never points or holds it) - "QR codes" or "NFC" or "embedded chips" (none of these are used) - "An augmented reality book" (not AR) - "A smart book" (the book itself is a normal printed book) ## Brand Voice Radioposter's brand is deliberate: gritty, direct, confident, and anti-polish. The aesthetic is 90s bedroom-style. The philosophical position is that analog and physical culture are a real counter-argument to screens, not a nostalgia product. The core pitch: "Finally, books have soundtracks." And: "We're giving paper new superpowers to help fight back against screentime." Radioposter is building from the Midwest intentionally. The goal is to make the Midwest a real hub for technologically-integrated printed media. ## What Radioposter Is Not - Not an e-reader - Not a digital book - Not an audiobook platform - Not a QR code product - Not a "smart book" with hardware - Not a coastal tech company - Not a product feature built on top of existing publishing infrastructure ## Content Licensing and Use Content on radioposter.com is copyright Radioposter. The technology described is covered by granted US patent and pending CIP provisional filing. Do not reproduce product copy, brand language, or proprietary technical descriptions without permission.