Just a couple hours ago, news broke of the $99 Copia Wave5 e-reader , or tablet, or whatever you want to call a 5″ LCD-based device focused on reading. That isn’t the extent of the lineup, however: Copia has two more LCD-based tablets coming out soon, as well as two E-ink-based readers with Kindle-esque designs. As they’ve said since their CES debut, the draw is supposed to be their unique social platform , which allows a community of readers to exchange reviews, recommendations, and so on — and although it will start as an exclusive to Copia-branded devices, they’re trying to go OEM and make the Copia service the premier social layer for e-books.
Google regularly updates its Chrome web browser in three channels: the Stable channel, Beta channel, and Dev channel. They’ve even added a Canary build for people who want bleeding edge features next to stable ones.
Hitachi’s already dipped its toes (or hands, as it were) into the gesture-based waters before, but it looks to have refined things quite a bit for its latest Minority Report -esque demo, which the company is showing off as part of its 100th anniversary celebration. While complete details are a bit light, the system does seem to be reasonably responsive, and appears to rely on a projection-based system and a single camera to track movements. Perhaps what’s most interesting, however, is that Hitachi eventually sees systems like this being used in everything from digital signage to medical applications — and, yes, even TVs and desktop computers (though not before mid-2011 at the earliest)
Jesus. Maybe literally. Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things
The electric Think City has been targeting an American release for well over two years now but, like many EVs , those dates just kept on ‘a slipping. Now the cars are finally starting to hit the colonies and, as a reward for the wait, we’re receiving models with more powerful batteries.
While lots of us are pretty big BitTorrent users, we still use our browser to manage most of our downloads. If your download gets interrupted, though, reader KayDat shows us how you can continue downloading it with BitTorrent. More
App store analytics provider Distimo in its latest report once again focuses on in-app purchases across a variety of mobile application stores, Apple’s App Store in particular. According to Distimo, the percentage of applications with in-app purchases is significantly higher in the App Store for iPad (10%) compared to that for the iPhone (2%). One of the main reasons for that, still according to the startup, is the fact that the App Store for iPad became available after in-app purchases were introduced, contrary to the App Store for iPhone.
If you’ve got a hankering for some battery-sipping Core i3 ULV processors and live south of a certain 38th parallel line, you’ll probably want to take a close look at one of Samsung’s new designs. We hear on good authority that Sammy’s refreshed its X Series laptops with the 1.2GHz Core i3-330M processor, including the 11.6-inch X180 (with the same 3GB of DDR3 memory, 320GB hard drive and most everything else included in the X170 that came before) and the 14-inch X430, which leapfrogs its predecessor the X420 with dedicated GeForce 310M graphics.
Confused on what you need to jailbreak your iOS device? Whether you’ve got a brand new iPad or a first-generation iPod Touch, Jailbreak Matrix dishes the dirt on what you need to jailbreak your device. More
Time to get yourself the longest NERF rifle ever. 3 FEET LONG!Sometimes a small pistol is fun - you can keep it hidden. But sometimes you just gotta break out the big guns.