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The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's gadgets {Engadget}
Aug 22nd 2008 11:12PM We just need stuff to play with at MIT.
Apple shows off iPhone 3G guided tour {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 11:06AM Don't worry, there will be third-party apps for that stuff.
iRex launches new iLiad Book Edition e-book reader {Engadget}
May 7th 2008 1:21PM It hasn't caught on yet because e-ink is new technology and prices still haven't dropped enough to offer reasonably-priced (sub-$200, but $100 is the sweet spot) readers. Each one of these devices that sells to early adopters will create the volume needed to lower costs. A better business model might help, too.
Walter Bender speaks out about leaving OLPC, de-emphasis of radical projects {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 11:59AM "Welcome to the world where only one company is legally allowed to "innovate" on your computer."
Apple?
How would you change Samsung's YP-P2? {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 11:38AM Samsung has a video chip in the iPhone; it does not manufacture the whole thing. Foxconn does.
Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2008 12:51AM I'm a designer, and while I think concepts are valuable in evolving an actual design, I get sick of those who start and end with a cool 3d rendering, or dream about cramming every buzzword-compliant technology into a gadget with little thought to current technology and prices. Someone said, "Artists ship."
This solves nothing; we've seen similar wet dreams before. The real problems to tackle are in a product/system that satisfies the needs of user AND business so that it actually gets made.
Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2008 12:42AM Shmitty, that's great. But I'm thinking about elementary and high school kids as well. Giving them all laptops is not as practical.
Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students {Engadget}
Apr 18th 2008 5:10PM These concepts aren't addressing any interesting problems. Agreed, the only problem is wriggling out from under the textbook industry. That's why it would take a vertical system, where the maker gets educators to write solid content and just cut the McGraw-Hills out of the loop. Unlike the entertainment industry, no one's clamoring for a specific author.
Then the cost of the readers could easily be subsidized by the content, or just the whole package with say, 4 years' content included. If you let the students keep the readers after graduation, then you've got a new user base to sell content to.
Redesign giveaway: HTC's new Shift UMPC {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2008 7:24PM I'd replace my Newton eMate with this.
Supercharger solar panel promises to give Freeloader a boost {Engadget}
Apr 4th 2008 1:44PM People keep their phones in their pockets or purses away from the light. Sow one of these into your jeans, and we're talkin'.
