I found an interesting app for android (They don’t have ios version yet) called “Spritz”
Based on a regular way of reading people eyes are moving around paragraphs to find words and read them. With the traditional way, our reading takes a bit of time be because of eyes movement.
However, “Spritz” app has changed your way of reading by providing word by word reading style into a reading box and each word has a red letter to be a focusing point. (each word has different focusing point) then users don’t have to move their eyes around to read. They mentioned that with this new method users can read faster than before.
I think it’s an interesting app since it’s simple and very piratical especially user interface that they designed on the phone.
More information
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA5iPw3SKrM
http://www.spritzinc.com/
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/this-app-makes-reading-500-words-per-minute-easy/