The newspaper of the future may soon be in your hands. Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reader could be set for an update as early as this week, according to a report in the New York Times.
The Times even speculates the larger model could do for newspapers what the iPod did for the music industry.
The new Kindle, the Times reports, would be better tailored to suit newspapers and magazines – and presumably help defray the high cost of printing and distribution with digital downloads over the device’s wireless Internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »
This morning Amazon officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2 (although leaked photographs of the device have been floating around the internet for some time now).
All-in-all, the new Kindle is a modest step up from the first generation, introducing nothing too radical to the design or functionality but improving the device in a variety of incremental ways.
So just what’s new and different? We’ll take you through the highlights below. If you’ve spotted any other important differences, please let us know in the comments. Read the rest of this entry »
President-Elect Barack Obama has told his advisers that he’s going to use his BlackBerry to stay in touch with the real world, even after his inauguration – we look at why the smartphone is indispensable.
Madonna sleeps with one under her pillow, Barack Obama can’t play golf without his (as this YouTube clip shows at 1:45 ) and a whole generation of businessmen and women have become addicted to their Blackberry smartphones.
Now the President-Elect has confirmed that even he won’t break the so-called CrackBerry habit. Read the rest of this entry »
Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm unveiled a sleek new smartphone, the Pre, on Thursday and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it.
Palm executives say the touch-screen device and the new operating system inside it, WebOS, break new ground in the fiercely competitive smartphone market. The phone’s selling points include an emphasis on fast Web browsing and efficient multitasking.
Jonathan J. Rubinstein, executive chairman of Palm, resisted comparisons of the Pre with the iPhone from Apple. Read the rest of this entry »
A wristwatch which belonged to a Italian count who won Grand Prix races and was president of Ferrari fetched a record £1.1million at auction today.
Count Carlo Felice Trossi’s large gold Patek Philippe timepiece sold at Geneva’s Sotheby’s sale for more than £200,000 than expected.
The “Trossi Leggenda”, described as “almost certainly unique” by experts, was the star lot among nearly 200 watches. World’s most expensive watch: The Patek Philippe and ex-owner Count Carlo Felice Trossi. Read the rest of this entry »
Even in the digital era, photos are much better when they are printed on paper. They feel somehow… material when they are printed, after a century of usual film cameras we are accustomed to a printed image.
That’s why many owners of digital cameras prefer to print their best photos. If you remember the days of mid 90s, then you will remember the boom of instant film cameras that produced an already printed image.
The main company behind that cameras was Polaroid. Now, film cameras look archaically, surrendering their position to digital ones. But Polaroid does not surrender – it comes with a similar idea, but adapted to the modern market. Read the rest of this entry »
Going into the weekend I’d like to put the high-technology gadgets on hold for a while, and talk about something fun and useful at the same time – the Nubrella.
As you can imagine by the name, the product is somehow related to an umbrella… With that being said, the Nubrella is a special kind of umbrella, because you don’t need to use your hands in order to use it.
The Hands-free-brella is suppose to be strapped to your shoulders, and since it only weighs 1,1kg it shouldn’t be a problem carrying it. For $60 it can be yours !
Read the rest of this entry »
