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Braille E-Book

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Misc. Tech

Braille E-BookWith all the hoopla over the new Kindle DX, we think it is nice that someone has come up with a Braille E-Book. Translation of a 500 page book can double the thickness of the tome, so designers Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo and Jin-Sun Park use EAP technology to change the surface pattern via electromagnetic signals. This is still a prototype but maybe Amazon can make it its next hot product.

 

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Brother SV-100B Document Viewer

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech

Brother ReaderBrother’s SV-100B Document Viewer is a mere 15.5mm thick and weighs 600g. It has a 9.7-inch black and white display (1200x825) that can be viewed under direct sunlight and a miniSD card slot. A 2GB card can support up to 10,000 pages of information and its lithium-ion rechargeable battery will run up to 83 hours. At a size of 237×247×15.5 mm, Brother claims its reader has a life span of 5 years or 37 million pages.

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Hearst to Launch Newspaper e-Reader

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech

e-ReaderPublisher Hearst Corp. is intending to come out with an electronic reader for magazines and newspapers. While media group chief Kenneth Bronfin wouldn’t give out many details, he says that it is because of an investment that the company made with E Ink, the company that supplies Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader electronic ink technology. Hearst will sell the e-readers to publishers and receive a portion of the revenue. Look for the new device, which should be about the size of a standard sheet of paper, later this year.

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ebook Price Searches Availability, Best Price

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ebook price screen

Just bought an e-book but not sure where you can get the best deal for content? ebook price.info allows you to search for a book by author, title or ISBN. It will then display results from sites such as ebooks.com, Amazon and ereadable. You can also find what is available by format and the site will suggest other titles by the same author. Some books even feature a synopsis. The site is really simple to use and worth checking out before you purchase.

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Fujitsu FLEPia Color e-Book

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech, Wireless / WiFi

FLEPiaFujitsu has the honor of developing the first color e-paper mobile terminal. FLEPia is thin and lightweight and has a simple to view 8-inch display with up to 260,000 colors in HD. It also has Bluetooth and high-speed wireless LAN capability. When completely charged, it provides up to 40 hrs. of usage only for re-draw. When used with a 4GB SD card, the e-book can store up to 5,000 conventional sized paperbacks which equals out to 300 pages long at 600KB per book.

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Sony Adds 500,000 Books for Reader

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Google, Internet, Misc. Tech

Sony ReaderSony is offereing its Reader users half a million public domain books. The Google optimized books are added to the 100,000 already available for the e-book. Included are such titles as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,”  “The Awakening” and “The Letters of Jane Austen.” Google has been encoding books in the open electronic format ePub to make such titles more available to Sony and other e-book distributors.

 

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Ian Fleming Reader Digital Book

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech

Fleming ReaderWhile Kindle 2 is finding its niche, Sony has released a special edition Reader for James Bond fans. The Ian Fleming bundle was created to mark the release of Quantum of Solace and the centenary of the author’s birth. This includes a download code which will give you Casino Royale and For Your Eyes Only, which includes the short story QOS. A special 007 embossed cover is included in the $299.99 price.

 

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Active Matrix EPD Prototype Kit

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Misc. Tech

EPDE Ink’s AM200 Electronic Paper Display (EPD) Prototype Kit is for DIYers who want to make their own e-book. The kit includes a glass-based active matrix display with Vizplex imaging film, a Metronome Display controller and all the hardware and software needed. It supports 5, 6, 8, and 9.7-inch displays, weighs only 150 g, is a mere 7.2 mm thick and includes 2 Li-ion batteries and charger. Design your own, find an investor and you can probably give Kindle a little competition.

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iStation T3 PMP

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video

iStation T3

iStation has unveiled their T3. It features a 4.3-inch touchscreen with 480x272 resolution, supports MP3, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, APE, AC3, and WAV audio files as well as MPEG-4, AVI, Divx, Xvid and WMV video files. The Korean made PMP also features a voice recorder, FM tuner, e-book capability, dictionary and a TV-out option. Available in 4, 8, 16 or 32GB with a SDHC expansion slot, it runs on Windows CE 5.0. At a size of 130x75.5x16mm and a weight of only 170g, there is no word yet on availability date or price.

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Belco Alpha 400 Netbook

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Hot Deals, PC / Laptop

Alpha 400 NetbookBelco is the latest company to unveil their netbook, the full-flash Alpha 400. It certainly is basic with its 7-inch display, 128MB RAM, 1GB internal memory, a 400MHz MIPS processor, a 10/100 MB Ethernet interface, and WiFi connectivity. It also has a SDHC memory card slot for another 32GB of storage and runs on Linux. Let’s not forget it works as an e-book, MP3 and game player and has installed business software. You can get the netbook for way-cheap. Try $169.95.

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