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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010It’s probably predictably human to compare a new device to attributes of existing ones we know well. As Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad to the world, my thought was that I was looking at a fairly compelling blend of an iPod Touch and a Kindle DX.
If you’ve ever held the larger version of Amazon’s [...]
Boogie Board Gives You an Electronic Scratch Pad
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Maybe one thing we’ll learn this year is just how many different things in the gadget world can be called a tablet. We still don’t know exactly what Apple’s entry to that named category will be able to do, but eReading, media playback, web browsing and games all seem likely. However, if you just want [...]
Capture Your Winter Olympics Feats With Video Ski Goggles
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010I’m guessing you already have ski gloves that control your iPod and a GPS to help you track your speed down the hill, but when you’re back at the lodge bragging about that spectacular jump you made with no witnesses, you need some tech to back up your outlandish claims. Luckily Liquid Image, the folks [...]
CrunchPad – R.I.P.
Monday, November 30th, 2009Many days, the tech world gives us something to cheer about and eagerly anticipate. Some days, though, the news is just sad. Today Michael Arrington announced the death of a project to produce a device I was eagerly anticipating, the CrunchPad. Envisioned as an inexpensive web-browsing tablet, the CrunchPad could have made a very nice [...]
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