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Back To The Future! 1988 / 2011
24 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
CES: Mirasol e-readers still several months away
The e-reader may have been one of the hottest holiday gifts, with Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and others selling millions of devices, but it was decidedly absent at this year’s CES–unless, of course, you count all the Android tablets floating around. The company a lot of people were watching was Qualcomm-backed Mirasol, which made [...]
Nook Color Hands-On
Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor, the first full color ebook reader, presents a series of dilemmas for interested buyers. B&N referred to it as a tablet, but NOOKcolor is really more like half a tablet. It literally is a read-only device. It displays text, PDF and Microsoft Office files, plays any MPEG-4 video (no Flash), plays [...]
PocketBook 701 eBook reader hits the FCC
The PocketBook 701 eBook reader made its way through the FCC, packing 802.11 b/g/n WiFi capabilities. FCC documents do not reveal much about the device, but we do get a good look at the PocketBook 701’s formfactor from the label pic above. There are currently three versions of PocketBook eBook readers available, the 301+, the [...]
Hands-on with Sharper Image’s Literati eReader
The Literati, a Sharper-Image-branded color e-reader, was officially announced a few weeks ago, but I spotted one out in the wild last night at a tech event in New York. Due to hit stores in October, the Wi-Fi-enabled Literati has a 7-inch LCD screen, an affordable $159 price tag that’s expected to drop with special [...]
Cinepal Personal Media Player and Ebook Reader with 8.9 Inch HD LCD Display
Finally a media player that doesn’t confine you to the couch at home! The Cinepal is a portable media player but of course you can still plug it into your TV and enjoy 720p or 1080i full HD videos on your TV. The portable device with spacious 8.9′ High Definition LCD display, and a Resolution [...]
Video Report: New Lenovo IdeaPad A Better Idea!
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New Barnes & Noble’s Nook
Barnes & Noble is throwing its considerable weight around and getting into the still somewhat niche e-reader game. With the Nook, e-readers have a chance to hit a mainstream demographic like never before. Running Google’s Android operating system, and boasting dual screens — one E ink for reading and the other a color, touchscreen capacitive [...]
With Its Tablet, Apple Blurs Line Between Devices
SAN FRANCISCO — After months of feverish speculation, Steven P. Jobs introduced Wednesday what Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the planet: a slender tablet computer called the iPad. For all the hoopla surrounding it, however, the question is whether the iPad can achieve anything close to the success of the iPhone, which [...]