Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.

Product Overview

• Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
• Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
• Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
• Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
• More than 90,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
• New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
• Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
• Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
• Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
• Holds over 200 titles.
• Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
• Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
• No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
• Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
• Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.
• Included in the box: Kindle wireless reader, Book cover, Power adapter, USB 2.0 cable

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ShakerRacer project with N95

Andreas Jakl and Stephan Selinger have launched a new application called ShakerRacer that utilizes the 3D Acceleration Sensor of a Nokia S60 3rd Edition mobile device such as Nokia 5500 Sport, N93i, N95 or N82 to control and drive a real world Radio Control (RC) toy car using your hand/body movements.

The RC car used was modded to accept a Bluetooth connection instead of the proprietary wireless module which an RC car came with and they also add in a microcontroller.


ShakerRacer: a natural way to control a car — with the acceleration sensor

Compatibility

• S60 3.x with acceleration sensors
  e.g. Nokia 5500 Sport, N93i, N95, N82, ...

Developed by

• Andreas Jakl (Software)
• Stephan Selinger (Hardware)

Published

• November 2007

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Apple TV

Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? For one low price, Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.

Say you’ve just downloaded The Incredibles from iTunes. Instead of huddling around your computer to watch, you pop some popcorn while your computer wirelessly syncs your new flick to Apple TV. Then you pull up a seat, put up your feet, and pick up the included Apple Remote to play your movie on TV. Give yourself a hand: You've just changed the way you watch digital media.

With Apple TV, you can take your movies, TV shows, music, photos and podcasts from iTunes, and enjoy them in the comfort of your living room on your big screen TV! Apple TV syncs or streams your media from a PC or Mac wirelessly and connects to your TV via an HDMI port or component video and audio ports.

You can streams wirelessly movies or music anywhere.

If you want to watch video from another computer, you can stream it live to your TV via Apple TV. Streamed media travels over your network to your TV — without taking up space on Apple TV’s hard drive. That’s perfect for multicomputer households or when the computer you sync with has more in its iTunes library than will fit on Apple TV. Just choose up to five additional computers from the Sources menu. As long as a computer’s on your network, it can stream to your TV.

Features:

• Includes - Remote, power cord and quick start guide.
• 40GB Built-in Hard Drive
• Syncs up to 50 hours of movies and TV shows, up to 9,000 songs, and up to 25,000 pictures.
• Can stream content from up to 5 other computers using iTunes
• TV Compatibility - Widescreen EDTVs or HDTVs capable of 1080i 60/50Hz, 720p 60/50Hz, 576p 50Hz (PAL format), or 480p 60Hz

Technical Details

• device_type: Digital multimedia receiver
• Display: None
• media_type: Hard disk drive
• digital_player_type: None
• tuner: None
• multimedia_functionality: Digital audio playback, Digital photo playback, Digital video playback
• connectivity_protocol: IEEE 802.11n (draft), IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet), IEEE 802.3u (Fast Ethernet)

Where to buy

Pair Apple TV with your computer and your TV shows, movies, music, podcasts, and photos sync automatically

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WowWee's Roboquad

This is the commercial that WowWee has created for the Roboquad, their new quirky and cool spider robot that has a multi-modal personality and super advanced infrared sensors.

Roboquad is an inquisitive robot with unusual movements and an advanced sensor array. Change his awareness, activity or aggression levels to completely alter his personality and behaviour. Interact with his long range, deep IR scanner and sound sensor, control him with the full function remote and watch him react to light.



Where to buy?

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WowWee’s Roboboa!

Snakes on a plane! Roboboa is the snake that loves to party.

What is Known So Far

• It’s a dancing robot snake with cool lights and moves its’ body in time to music.
  
• It is also a futuristic alarm clock.
  
• It acts as a room sentry that can track motion in the room while holding it within its’ spotlight.
  
• Act as a funky disco speaker for an iPod.
  
• It will have a remote control and you can program up to 40 individual movements into it.
  
• (Rumor) It will have mount points on its’ body for hackers to play with and be able to fire soft projectiles as it strafes a room

Where to buy?

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Levi's mobile phone demo video

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Dell Latitude XT Tablet pc

ZDNet Asia is reporting that Dell’s new Tablet PC will be called the Latitude XT. The XT will be based on Intel’s Santa Rosa platform and will almost certainly have a 12.1-inch widescreen display with 1280 x 800 screen resolution, the pen and touch input support, and an optional outdoor viewing capability. It is powered by Intel’s single or dual-core ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor and has an integrated graphics solution reportedly.

Along with WiFi options supporting up to 802.11n wireless standard and Ethernet LAN, Dell Latitude XT has optional Bluetooth and wireless broadband 3G (HSDPA, EV-DO Rev. A) connections. There are also three USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, a FireWire, a VGA output, and a fingerprint reader, accompanied by an optional Smart Card slot for enhanced security.

Dell’s new Latitude Convertable Tablet PC has been scoped. This will be the first tablet PC Dell has ever developed, and they’re saying with confidence that it will be one of the lightest on the market when released.

See the video below posted on the Direct2Dell.

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HP TouchSmart

Microsoft announced the HP TouchSmart PC with a touchscreen interface designed to be an easy to use entertainment hub in the home. It's come with a 19-inch touchscreen, AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core TL-52 processor, 2GB SDRAM, 320GB drive, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, integrated 1.3 MP camera, integrated FM and ATSC HDTV tuners, a DVD±RW / DVD-RAM burner with LightScribe, Pocket Media Drive bay, wireless keyboard, mouse, stylus, front media reader, and more ports & running Windows Vista.

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Amtek U560

It has a generous space on both sides for a comfortable hold and a slide out regular keyboard. Like the Fujitsu it has an Intel Sealey 800MHz processor and various options for its operating system.

It also has 4.8" display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 30GB hard drive, 512MB of ram, a 3600mAh 2-cell battery with an optional 4-cell extended battery, and an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam.

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Alienware Area-51 7500 with Thermaltake BigWater SE

Thermaltake has been in business since 1999 providing cooling solutions to computer users around the world. In the 6+ years they have been in business, they went from the golden orb, which sold millions, to their current line of products, ranging from CPU coolers to full blown water cooling setups and from cases to PSU's, not to mention the wide range of other products they offer.






This is a Alienware Area-51 7500R4 P2 Chassis with a installed Thermaltake BigWater SE thermaltake liquid cooling kit on. Installation took about 4 hours.

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Alienware m9750 First Look

The most powerful laptop with 17” Wide Screen WUXGA, With two processing cores, powered by the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM DDR2 at 667MHz, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX GDDR3 NVIDIA nForce 100 with NVIDIA® SLI™ technology and two 250GB hard drives.

The truth?

It's out there.

Today’s games demand maximum horsepower; the Area-51 m9750 delivers. NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology and up to 1GB of graphics memory make it more powerful than most desktops, and all other notebooks.

PC Magazine : Editors' Choice : July 2007

“The new Stealth Black design and SLI graphics allow the Alienware Area-51 m9750 to take its rightful place on the gaming throne.”

[Via alienware.com]

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OS X (Tiger) Tips

This video makes the assumption that you are on an Intel mac running Tiger (as most new Mac users are). If you have any thing to add or a tutorial of your own, post it as a video response. Another thing I didn't mention: If you're on a MacBook go to the 'mouse and keyboard' menu, then on the gestures menu check all of the boxes and hover over them to see how to use them, then once they're all enabled, make good use of them!


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FULL DESCRIPTION HERE: http://www.randombattle.com/osxtips.html

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Panasonic's interactive TV wall

Just like all other international companies, Panasonic thinks about our future on a daily basis and they try to come up today with tomorrow's tools. It's clear to everybody that the TV, IT and Internet have a key place in our everyday lives today.

Panasonic based themselves on this statement to develop an interactive TV wall. Yes, we are talking about a wall... with a touch sensitive screen that has the surface of two 110" TV's (you just need a big house or share the TV with your neighbour).

This wall not only enables you to watch TV, but also to surf on the Internet, read emails, listen to music and even see who's ringing your doorbell. Since it's a touch sensitive screen, it gives you the interactivity to play some basketball or even practice your piano skills on the screens, as shown on the video.



[Via akihabaranews]

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Capture videos from the Internet

If you're a regular YouTube viewer, you've probably experienced the frustration of trying to save your favorite videos. The movies are presented in the Flash Video (FLV) format and can't be downloaded with a simple right-click. Flash Video makes highly-compressed streaming video possible, and many Web sites use it because it displays well in most browsers.

One of the easiest ways to capture videos is with KeepVid a download-helper site. It's completely browser-based, so there's no software to download. After you've found a video you want to save, enter that video's URL at KeepVid, then select its originating site from a pop-up list. KeepVid works with a wide variety of video sites. You can reuse its sites list to discover new places to surf for videos.

When you enter your video URLs, KeepVid prompts you to change the suffix of the downloaded file (so that instead of Video.htm, you download Video.flv). The only problem with the site is it leaves FLV files in their original format, so downloading alone isn't enough. To view your file, you'll need to either download a FLV viewer such as FLV Player, or convert your file into a more usable format.

Another good site for saving online video is YouTube Downloader, a simpler option that only works with YouTube. In this site, you enter the URL of the page with your chosen video and click "Get Download URL." You'll then create a URL for the video itself. Click that new link to download the video file. You shouldn't need to add a FLV suffix, but it's a possible fix if you have problems. Again, you'll either need to convert this file or download a FLV viewer to play it.

[Via Cnet]

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Building A Parabolic WiFi Booster

From: TechAnvil This episode gives you a basic overvi...

This episode gives you a basic overview of how to build a Parabolic WiFi Booster that will increase you router's range.

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Casio Exilim EX-S880, EX-Z77 boast YouTube capture mode

Look out YouTube fanatics, your next digital camera has arrived. Casio's latest pair of Exilims don't deviate much from their predecessors, but a recent agreement with YouTube has enabled the duo to boast a "unique YouTube capture mode," as well as bundle in software "to provide ideal settings for recording, storing, and uploading video."

The 8.1-megapixel Exilim Card EX-S880 ($299.99) touts a 2.8-inch monitor, SD / SDHC support, and comes in black or red motifs, while the 7.2-megapixel Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 ($229.99) trims down with a 2.6-inch LCD but arrives in four varying colors. Both cameras' YouTube capture mode records in 640 x 480 H.264, and provides "two step" access to get your clips from the flash card to the web. Look for the video-savvy pair to land in retail outlets next month.

Via Engadget

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