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Students Grab 350,000 Digital Textbooks from Apple iBooks in First Three Days
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With iBooks 2, Apple recently launched its full-on assault on the print textbooks we all lugged around in school. So far, the war is off to a good start for Apple. According to AllThingsD, students have already downloaded 350,000 textbooks from iBooks in just three days. That is a huge… |
January 24th, 2012
Glitchr Turns Website Bugs into Art
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To be honest, I no longer use Facebook enough to see any bugs. I basically check in and check out, within 10 or 15 minutes or so each time and never leave an open tab. That being said, just like any website, Facebook has got some bugs. Glitchr is a… |
January 14th, 2012
Ion Audio Vinyl Forever Looks Like a Tiny Turntable, Doesn’t Play Tiny Records
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Earlier in the week I mentioned that at CES 2012, Ion Audio had unveiled a turntable that connected to your PC via USB to convert your vinyl and cassette tapes. Ion has unveiled another conversion device for those who already have a nice record player or tape deck called Vinyl… |
January 14th, 2012
iPad Used as Passport to Cross US Border
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While the TSA and INS aren’t supposed to let you into the US without a real passport, that didn’t stop a Canadian man from using his iPad as a substitute for his passport, which he had forgotten at home. Border crossings require passports these days, but thanks to a bit… |
January 4th, 2012
CODEX LED Watch Is About as Cryptic as They Come… or Is It?
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If you’re looking for a watch that looks cool, and is almost impossible for anyone but you to figure out, you might want to check out the CODEX watch concept, which tells time using a unique display that seems almost incomprehensible – until you understand the trick.… |
December 31st, 2011
Marvel Digital Stylus Doubles as Pen
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There are basically two kinds of styluses available. The ones with a thin tip, that allow you to write, draw, and select stuff on a resistive screen, and the ones with a somewhat larger tip, that mimic the way that you use your finger, designed for capacitive touch screens. The… |
December 20th, 2011
Arcane Quad Orbit Watch Concept Spins its Wheels to Tell the Time
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Here’s another cool watch concept from designer Peter Fletcher I found floating around up on the Tokyoflash design blog. While it might look like a futuristic LCD timepiece, the Arcane Quad Orbit watch is actually fully mechanical.… |
November 18th, 2011
Ventura Sparc MGS Mechanical/Digital Watch Needs No Battery
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I have seen a bunch of watches over the years that are mechanical action units where you don’t need to wind them and they don’t need batteries. These watches are the sort where the motion of your arms as you move around keeps the watch wound up. A new watch… |
October 24th, 2011
The Elusive Watch Lets You Read the Time off Your Wrist, Literally
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I’ve been so lazy lately that I haven’t had the batteries of two of my wristwatches changed yet. So as things stand, they’re still lying on my dresser. I still wear them but they’re more like accessories now, since the batteries are already deader than dead.… |
September 28th, 2011
Digital Bitcoins Become Real, Shiny
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If like me, you’ve never heard of Bitcoins before, let me explain. Bitcoin is a digital currency that basically allows payments without needing centralized payment processors. You don’t need any stinkin’ banks and their greedy scandals and since you don’t need banks, the fees are super low. They are transferred… |
September 27th, 2011
