Alex eReader set to ship two weeks after iPad |
Spring Design’s Alex eReader is one of those products that probably would have gotten a lot more attention had it managed to come out before Apple’s iPad. However, as it stands, the $399 Android-powered device, which features both a 6-inch e-ink display and a 3.5-inch, 16-bit color touch-screen LCD, is scheduled to ship in the middle of April and threatens to get overshadowed by the iPad’s arrival on April 3.
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Long and narrow, the 11-ounce Alex has an interesting shape, measuring 4.7 inches wide, 8.9 inches high, and less than a half inch thick. You can download Google Books and it’s compatible with other bookstores that support Adobe DRM (you can read e-books in EPUB, PDF, HTML, and TXT formats), the Alex has no tie-in with Barnes & Noble, though Spring’s e-reader shares some similar traits to Barnes & Noble’s dual-screen Nook (in fact, Spring actually sued Barnes & Noble for similarities it saw in the Nook).
Read more at news.cnet.com |
Big mistake being in Italy for 4 months and missing this…
Personally I’d take #1 over #20 any day. 20. Le Bassin aux Nymphéas by Claude Monet - $79.8 million
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19. Turquoise Marilyn by Andy Warhol - $83.4 million
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18. Yo, Picasso by Pablo Picasso - $83.8 million
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17. Les Noces de Pierrette by Pablo Picasso - $84.9 million
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16. A Wheatfield with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh - $85.7 million
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15. False Start by Jasper Johns - $85.9 million
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14. Triptych, 1976 by Francis Bacon - $86.3 million
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12. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II by Gustav Klimt - $94.5 million
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10. Eight Elvises by Andy Warhol - $100.1 million
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9. Irises by Vincent van Gogh - $101.2 million
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| An influential Muslim scholar is to issue in London a global ruling against terrorism and suicide bombing. |
Dr Tahir ul-Qadri, from Pakistan, says his 600-page judgement, known as a fatwa, completely dismantles al-Qaeda’s violent ideology. |
The scholar describes al-Qaeda as an “old evil with a new name” which has not been sufficiently challenged. |
The scholar’s movement is growing in the UK and has attracted the interest of policymakers and security chiefs. |
In his religious ruling, Dr Qadri says that Islam forbids the massacre of innocent citizens and suicide bombings. |
“This fatwa injects doubt into the minds of potential suicide bombers,” he said. |
“Extremist groups based in Britain recruit the youth by brainwashing them that they will ‘with certainty’ be rewarded in the next life. |
“Dr Qadri’s fatwa has removed this key intellectual factor from their minds.” |
The man has talent… and patience. Model maker and retired farmer Alex Garrard has spent over 33,000 hours bringing his scale model of Herod’s Temple to life. Meticulously researched, it accommodates over 4,000 figures and occupies over 200 square feet. |
“Everything is made by hand. I cut plywood frames for the walls and buildings and all the clay bricks and tiles were baked in the oven then stuck together,” he says.
Read more at blog.makezine.com |
Cool stuff from the people who brought us the Internet. Darpa Plans Test for Hypersonic Weapon |
The Pentagon’s far-out science arm is planning an April test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that — in theory — could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours. |
The flight test is part of the Falcon program, a Darpa-Air Force project to develop the tech that could lead to a reusable hypersonic vehicle that could take off and land like a plane. It would carry 12,000 pounds of payload over 9,000 nautical miles in less than two hours. |
According to the Darpa solicitation, the ship will be hired to transport, deploy and retrieve a set of nine impact-scoring rafts, as well as telemetry equipment that will help track the HTV-2 in its final seconds of flight. Read more at www.wired.com |
The video speaks for itself.
Forget iPad - this is what I want. Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas |
The site also shows the array of devices Google envisions for Chrome OS. |
The tablet mock-ups show a variety of Chrome OS tablet ideas, including a virtual keyboard taking up the bottom half of the screen or detached and floating as a separate window. Also included are a slideshow mode, an application launcher, sidebar-mounted browser tabs, and a pop-up contextual menu.
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The video mock-up shows a much larger tablet, with hands resizing and moving windows through the multitouch interface, scrolling through text, and typing a search query.
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| Android uses a variation of Oracle’s Java technology |
Magnetic nanoparticles target human cancer cells |
In what may well prove to be some of the most exciting health news in the year to come, the group announced in the journal Nanomedicine in December and further publicized on Tuesday that it has replicated the study on human cancer cells, with the nanoparticles appearing to be every bit as effective. |
| Our technique is designed to filter the peritoneal fluid or blood, and remove these free-floating cancer cells, which should increase longevity by preventing the continued metastatic spread of the cancer.Read more at news.cnet.com |
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