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Palm going Centro for next webOS handset?

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:26:00 +0000

The Boy Genius Report just got ahold of this ultra-blurry shot of what purports to be Palm’s next webOS device, with a supposed fall release date and zero other info to go on. From the looks of things the keyboard is stationary, but with the relative height-to-width ratio (and last night’s “Mini-Pre” rumor ) we’re thinking the keyboard and screen might be shrunk down slightly — which, were we to conjecture further, could mean a webOS Centro

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Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal documents OTA to your Kindle

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:52:00 +0000

So far, sending files to your Kindle cost a flat fee — one dime per document for conversion and download over Whispernet. Looks like that honeymoon is over, as Amazon’s announced that as of May 4th, the Personal Document Service will be a variable fee of $0.15 per megabyte, rounding up. It’s still free of charge if you transfer the documents over via USB, and sending them to “name”@free.kindle.com will return converted files to your email address gratis

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Android 1.5 already hitting T-Mobile G1s?

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:29:00 +0000

We’d kinda gotten used to the cold, hard reality of being teased with the promise of a Cupcake build on our retail G1s out in some distant, nondeterministic future that we may or may not be a part of — but all of a sudden, it looks like we might’ve vaulted right past Cupcake.

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Electrofluidic display tech improves color e-ink, makes you sound smarter

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:47:00 +0000

The race to develop a mass-market color e-ink display is at fever pitch, and there’s a new challenger on the scene: electrofluidic display, or EFD. Developed at the University of Cincinnati in partnership with a handful of private companies, the new tech apparently blows everything else out of the water — according to professor Jason Heikenfeld, EFD has superior brightness, color saturation, and video speed, all in a 15-micron thick panel that can eventually be used in rollable displays

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LEGO iMac G4 Junior is iMac G4′s smaller, friendlier sibling

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:24:00 +0000

We tend to go a little weak in the knees for anything in miniature , so this iMac G4 “Junior” made with a 7-inch digital photo frame and a bunch of LEGO s sent us into hysterics. DIY-er Bjarne Tveskov says the creation is inspired by the film Luxo Jr

The Daily Roundup: here’s what you might’ve missed

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:36:00 +0000

Sony unveiling UMD-less PSP with slide-out buttons at E3? Whispers of a new or revised PSP have been growing decidedly louder as of late, and now 1UP ‘s gotten a ton of new details from what it claims are “sources directly involved with the new system” — our favorite kind of people, actually. iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4, iTunes 8.2 pre-release now live Just two weeks after the last revision went up, Apple’s released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 to the developer community alongside an iTunes 8.2 pre-release

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PiSAT Solar’s K-Light boasts a one-to-one charging ratio

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:11:00 +0000

It’s pretty rare that a portable solar-based device offers much more utility than impressing your friends, but PiSAT Solar’s K-Light won’t only make you the coolest kid on your block: it might actually prove useful the next time you take a hike or find yourself hanging out in a developing country.

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HP ProBook 4710s hands-on

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:25:00 +0000

We just had a quick run-in with the 17-inch version of HP’s new ProBook s-series laptops .

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Venus wearable monitor could offer alternative to needles

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:03:00 +0000

It looks like folks wary of needles now have yet another piece of technology to look forward to, with this so-called Venus device promising to measure tissue oxygen and pH levels without the need to draw any blood at all. To do that, the system makes use of a relatively small sensor that’s placed directly on the skin, which uses near infrared light to measure to measure the blood and analyze both the tissue oxygen and pH, as well as the the metabolic rate. As a bonus, the lack of needles also reduces the the risk of infection, and it’s relatively portable nature makes it ideal for use outside of strictly medical situations, such as monitoring athletes — or astronauts, as it was originally developed for.

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Averatec hints at an Android netbook

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:22:00 +0000

We’re not sure why Android is suddenly the hottest netbook OS in town , but we’d guess it’s about to hit the scene in a big way at Computex next month. Today’s whispers?

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