The effire Citybook 3G has just been announced in Russia. It’s based on the standard 6″ Sipix screen with a capacitive touch screen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, SD card slot, and the usual ebook support you’d expect to find in Russia (fb2, fb2.zip, epub, djvu, doc, rtf, pdf, txt, html). Like other Sipix e-readers, the [...]
Entries from May 19th, 2011
LG Display have a clear, bistable screen demo
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Here’s another really cool demo from SID Display week. You’re looking through a monochrome screen at a Mini Cooper model. Engadget found this in the LG Display booth. It’s just a concept, and there’s not word on when or if it will hit the market.
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Bored with your e-reader?
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Amazon, hardware news
Amazon will give you money for it. They’ve just announced that they’re expanding their trade-in program to include electronics. Before you could only trade in video games, DVDs, textbooks. Shipping is free. BTW, before you sell anything, you should probably see who will give you the best price. Gazelle also buy gadgets, so it might [...]
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Check out the new concept smartphone with a Mirasol screen!
May 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Engadget caught sight of Qualcomm’s new concept smartphone. This is the 4.1″ Mirasol screen that Qualcomm have been showing off for a while now. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. All they did was take the non functional 4.1″ (227ppi, or 800×480 resolution) screen sample I showed you a couple months back and put it in a [...]
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Amazon Bought 4 New .CO URLs
May 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Amazon
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Amazon got the rights to 4 new URLs on the .CO domain from the licensing authority in Columbia. The 4 URLS are: A.Co Z.Co K.Co Cloud.co I bet you can guess that the a.co is for Amazon, k.co refers to the Kindle, and cloud.co will be used with Amazon’s new cloud [...]
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Ricoh epaper promises over double the brightness of its competitors
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Ricoh have just unveiled a new epaper screen that they promise will have 2.5 times the brightness and 4 times the color spread. They’ve been working on this screen tech since before they released their first demo in march 2009 and they’re finally ready to show it off. Like E-ink, this is a reflective, bi-stable [...]
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First look at Kobo’s new note taking ability
May 18th, 2011 · 6 Comments · kobo, software news
iPad owners, eat your hear out. Chippy of UMPC Portal got his hands on the new HTC Flyer, the one with dual touchscreen layers. He puts this Android tablet though its paces, and 1 of the apps he shows off is a reading app based on Kobo. The new app supports scribbled notes. Now, this [...]
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Samsung unveil a 10″ MEMS demo at SID Display Week
May 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I couldn’t make it to SID Display Week this year, so I consider myself lucky to have found this photo on the Samsung Flickr account. That 10″ screen is based on tech developed by Liquavista, Samsung’s newest subsidiary. It uses Liquavista’s proprietary electrowetting screen tech. The last I heard is that this screen should hit [...]
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E-ink & Epson announce new hi-res 300-ppi screen
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
SID Display Week is going on right now and E-ink have decided now would be a good time to unveil their latest screen. The prototype on display is a 9.7″ screen with a whopping 2,400 x 1,650 resolution. There’s no word on when it will be on the market or for how much.
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New Android 2.3 tablet clears the FCC
May 18th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
The AOC MW0812 showed up on the FCC website yesterday. This tablet has an 8″ resistive touch screen (800×600) and it runs Android v2.3 on an 800MHz Cortex A8 CPU with 4GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, Wifi, Bluetooth, speaker, microphone, and USB Host. There’s no word on when it will hit the market [...]
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