iRex intro’s their Digital Reader family of eBook appliances. The top of the iRex 1000 series is the DR 1000 SW ebook reader, selling for $849.
10.2 inch 1024×1280 pixel eInk 16 GrayScale 160 dpi display
10.6×8.5×0.5 inches and 1.25 lbs -or- 27×21.7×1.2 cm and 570 grams
WIFI and Bluetooth (SW model only)
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The year’s not even over yet, and Stuff Mag has declared the Asus Eee PC 901 to be the top gadget of 2008. The Eee netbook thus beats out the Apple iPhone 3G, and similar lesser gadgets…go figure.
But then again, the Asus Eee PC has been garnering praise since it first appeared late last year. Another recent convert to the Eee PC is Dave Winer of Scripting News. Dave says the Eee has cross-country battery life, that the Eee is a better reporting notebook than his trusty MacBook Pro and describes how it’s even replacing (parts of) his iPhone.
Stuff Gadget Awards – Eee PC wins gadget of the year – Stuff Magazine, 17 SEP 2008
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There’s no mistaking the new Emporio Armani Samsung Night Effect mobile phone…the Armani name is emblazoned in lights along the side.
GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA 2100 MHz
FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0
320?240 AMOLED display
3.2 megapixel camera
120 MB memory + microSD slot
model number M7500
about $433.77
Here’s Giorgio at the phone’s launch event in Milan Sept 21 2008…
… we’re waiting for the fabled Giorgio Armani/Black Label phone.
Armani Samsung Night Effect via gizmos
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The Ultra-Mobile PC or UMPC was first introduced back in May 2006 to moderate fanfare, and in case you’re wondering how they are doing now, 2.3 years later, the answer seems to be ‘not so good’.
DeviceGuru in fact declares the UMPC form factor to be dead, having been replaced by the netbook, while no one was looking. Why?..the author attributes the demise of the UMPC to feature creep, and thus price, and the unpopularity of its cousin the MID to competition from the smartphone.
The netbook is doing so well that Gartner estimates that the category will ship 50 million units annually by 2012, and some worry that netbook sales will cannibalize the traditional notebook.
The UMPC is dead; long live the netbook! – DeviceGuru, August 29 2008
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Samsung announces their new NC10 netbook computer.
Specs include: 10.2 inch LED-backlit screen at 1024×600, Intel Atom processor 1.6GHz, 1GB memory, 160GB HDD, 802.11b/g WiFi & Bluetooth. Weight is 1.3Kg.
The NC10 is fairly similar to the MSI Wind and the ASUS EE PC, distinguished largely by its coating of antibacterial nano silver partcles on the keyboard, and its larger keyboard. The NC10’s keyboard width and key pitch are 252 mm & 17.7 mm respectively versus 210 mm & 16 mm for the ASUS.
Samsung to expect its Atom-based mini laptop supporting Wibro, Aving, September 9 2008
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer puts in a brief appearance with the latest round of I Am a PC commercials for Microsoft. In a short 8-second spot, Steve stalks the halls of MSFT saying only “I Am a PC and I Love This Company“, but playing it marcato.
The over-analytical might be tempted to misinterpret Steve’s over-enthusiasm as exaggeration combined with irony intended to euphemism-ize the presumed real message viz “I’m not a Mac and I hate Apple” … but they would be wrong. Steve’s not subtle, so there’s probably no reverse irony there, and so the message must be the message.
Link is here.
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DARPA’s interesting new Super Resolution Vision System aka SRVS sees through atmospheric turbulence to achieve an amazing 3x better than diffraction-limited resolution. Turbulence degrades image quality but also creates micro lenses whose images can be algorithmically combined to produce a clean image. Sort of similar to gravitational lensing.
Should find good use in earth-based astronomy.
New Approaches for Atmospheric Turbulence – Degraded Image Correction
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Pocket Lint was at the recent UK launch event for the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 smartphone, which is from some company called Sony Ericsson. In summary, they declare the Xperia X1 to be competent, but boring.
Apparently, the tech part, consisting of HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, aGPS, 3.2 MP camera + Bluetooth, etc was fine, but they found the software to be a bit sluggish (SE sez they’re working on it) and they were not fond of the X1’s so-called Panel Interface. Specs are here.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 mobile phone – First Look review – Pocket Lint, 19 September 2008
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Asus introduces the Aiguru SV1 Skype-based videophone with the requisite speaker, microphone and videocamera. Connects to the web via 802.11 b/g or Ethernet.
…we’re guessing that the SV1 will likely be a modest failure, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but rather because people never warmed to the videophone, as explained in Wikipedia.
ASUS Aiguru SV1: The future – CrunchGear, September 19th 2008
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The new Microsoft ads are here…no more quirky humor, ambiguity or soft sell and much more to the point. The new ad series is entitled “I’m a PC”…there’s no Seinfeld, minimal Gates, but rather some 3-second clips of maybe 20 people saying repeatedly I’m A PC.
More info, better vids and some MSFT explanation at Microsoft PressPass.
…however, it’s mildly disconcerting to see a high-tech company like Microsoft use spiritualist Deepak Chopra in its commercials, he of quantum mechanical healing fame. But then again, they also have Eva Longoria, who partly compensates for that.
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