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  • Seagate makes the wafer-thin 2.5-inch Momentus hard drive official

    Seagate makes the wafer-thin 2.5-inch Momentus hard drive official

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    We knew this hard drive was coming, but the info we had suggested that it was going to make a CES debut. No matter, the 7mm thin Seagate Momentus hard drive is official and Seagate is calling it the thinnest in the world. In the world! The technical specs that leaked early all seem right on. The 8MB, [...]

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  • Ford lets people reserve a 2011 Ford Fiesta online

    Ford lets people reserve a 2011 Ford Fiesta online

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Ford revealed recently that they've had over 1,000 pre-orders placed online, using their new car-reservation site for the 2011 Ford Fiesta. The Fiesta has been available in the UK since last year, but this will be the first time in many years since there has been a new Fiesta in the US.

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  • Time Inc’s “Manhattan Project” Is A Tablet Magazine

    Time Inc’s “Manhattan Project” Is A Tablet Magazine

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    The magazine business is hurting just like all print publications. And even if their Websites are popular, they generate one tenth the ad revenue of the print side. Since last summer, Time Inc has been working on a “Manhattan Project” to create a digital magazine for the new breed of color tablet computers soon to come to market. (Condé Nast is also working on a similar concept). Today, I got a sneak peak at a demo of the tablet magazine designed for Sports Illustrated. The demo was shown on an HP table computer with a touchscreen, but it could easily be ported to an iPhone or an Apple iTablet, whenever that becomes available. The idea is to create something so beautiful and fluid that readers will actually want to pay for it. The cover takes up the full screen and you tap it to show a table of contents with thumbnails of the actual layout, which you can rearrange to read in any order you like. To flip through the pages you swipe with two fingers, and you can also tap to get a navigational timeline at the bottom. There is also a navigation wheel which lets you share stories via email, Facebook, or Twitter, favorite a story, go to related videos or photos interviews, other articles, or stats such as live scores.

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  • Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    So AppleInsider found a patent that shows a multi-touch clickwheel. You pinch in to turn the music down and pinch out to turn it up. Blah-blah. More specifically, the 38-page filing made just this past September describes a “multi-dimensional scroll wheel” that “can sense a moving object, such as a finger, as it is moved [...]

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