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  • Augmented Reality example at CEATEC

    Augmented Reality example at CEATEC

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    sekai-camera-demoAugmented reality is all the new buzz, I guess. I don't know, because I only have an iPhone 3G -- mine's missing that important "S" indicating it's the new model on which augmented reality can actually execute. But at CEATEC today I saw some Sekai Camera examples in the real world. My experience wasn't entirely positive: find out why.

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  • Western Digital addes e-ink displays and excitment to external hard drives

    Western Digital addes e-ink displays and excitment to external hard drives

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Have you ever wished your 1TB external hard drive would have a little screen on the outside, friend? Well, it's your lucky day because Western Digital's new line of My Book Elite and My Book Studio has just that: a 12-character e-ink screen. But act fast, everyone is going to want this!

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  • Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the first e-book to outsell its hardcover counterpart?

    Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the first e-book to outsell its hardcover counterpart?

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    What's the one area of technology that I'm still relatively keen on? That's right: e-books, but that's because I like the idea of having several books on my person at all times in a device that fits inside my trousers. (The latest: The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. Not an e-book, by the way, since I'm not made of money.) Devin, on the other hand, who also reads his share of books, is not as big a fan of the tech. We're like The Odd Couple! Anyway, I bring this up because it looks like Dan Brown's latest novel, The Lost Symbol, is the first book on record that is selling better on the Amazon Kindle than its hardcover counterpart. (Blah, blah, the death of books...)

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  • Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Normally, you probably wouldn't consider drinking your own shower water after you had used it, but throw a couple of plants in there and you may well reconsider. Or, perhaps you'll react like the Drudge-ushered Daily Mail commenters and say stuff like “WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE, I EARN THE RIGHT TO WASTE WATER AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF SOME EGGHEAD SCIENTIST SAYS OTHERWISE.”

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  • Cute Old-Style Radio Looks Like Crushed Cigarette Butt

    Cute Old-Style Radio Looks Like Crushed Cigarette Butt

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Radio Valerie is an almost impossibly cute little radio, a squat curved cylinder with a speaker squashed into the end which is tuned by an inventive combination of aerial and dial. So simple and elegant is the design that we wonder if it could have come from the same person that designed the truly hideous [...]

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