The Kindle DX has been given a bit more to take away with the new Kindle DX. It seems that the reader will come with an better 9.7 inch ink display that will come with 50% increase in contrast ratio. A good news for a few who screw their faces looking at Apple devices is that Amazon has decided to do away with the white in this case and settle for a bold graphite look....

We’re all used to the Pounds and the Dollars and the Euros and the Yens setting in every now and then when we have to contemplate the price of a product or share it with you our charming visitors but then, there seems to be something amiss. India’s Rupee didn’t really have a symbol of its own until this new move to create one. There are a lot of products and exports that have set India apart on the world...

It was pretty soon to come about, something like this and we’ve seen more sophisticated versions of the same before. However, now we have a seamless combination of LCD screens made possible with the alliance and joint efforts of Nissho Electronics Corp, NGC Corp and Samsung Japan. From these, Samsung are responsible for the software that they’ve launched called ‘Magicinfo Videowall’ and LCD displays that live up to the expectations of such systems. With LCDs developed by Samsung, ranging from...

If you’ve always had issues with which way you need to fit your batteries into their slots, keeping the positive and negative poles in mind, then turn to Microsoft’s InstaLoad. This new technology allows batteries to energize devices regardless of how the positive and negative polarity connections are made. Companies like Duracell seem to have shown interest in this move and may well like to try out InstaLoad....

Can it get any sweeter than this? A really cheap (read: affordable) eye-testing device has made it to the cellphone. Though it looks bulky it can comfortably attach to the front portion of your phone, that’s where the screen is. Using your arrow keys you can adjust the colored lines and gauge the severity of your eye condition. This is diagnosed with the help of an accompanying app that does the trick and prescribes what spectacles you’d be needing and...

There’s not a lot of time that a new standard can stick around on the shelves. Just as HDMI was getting to be commonplace in just about every media hub, we’ve got a whole new standard to cope up with and of course, it’s got everyone cocking up their ears in attention. It is based on a standard Cat5e/6. This completely erases the fact that we’ve been tricked into something more expensive. Making it to the Cat family makes the...

The last time we heard about the Nokia N9, all we had was a rusty video. Now we’ve caught wind of a little more than that, specs and all. The primarily Symbian phone comes in with a good slide-out QWERTY keypad, as we had observe before. Other features include an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The 4 inch capacitive touch display is a feast for the eyes. Other features that fit in include 3G support, HDMI Out, Wi-fi,...

USB 3.0 is here and we know this. Century is has been around for awhile with their USB devices and to add to their range of 3.0 enabled devices, thieve now got The Tribe, a portable drive dock. It’s small and light enough to be easy to carry around and it’s about 1/4 the size of the one they launched earlier. This version, aside from a reduction in size, doesn’t even require a power supply as the USB 3.0...

While internet broadband services may be still a sort of privilege in most countries, the Finns (is that right) have decided that broadband is now going to be a legal right for every citizen. Each citizen will now have the right to access to a 1Mbps broadband connection and to sweeten the deal, they’ve even promised to hook everyone up to 100Mbps connections by 2015. It seems that the government has understood the importance of high speed internet to...

The Icon Sheene superbike developed by motorcycle designer and builder Andrew Morris is a tribute to legendary racer Barry Sheene. Its debut will be at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed where the world will get a chance to marvel this uber expensive, uber powerful bike. In fact it’s already been classed as the world’s most expensive road-going motorcycle. The designer is aiming at custom fitting each $160,000 bike for each customer so each one is totally unique. The...

Those who don’t want to live forever raise your hands. Like I’ve always said, it seems like Hollywood seems to have a firm grasp over the control of how people wish the future to be. The glimpse of the future is cryonics. You know, where you freeze yourself or your brain and wake up a few decades in the future. A lab in Russia has developed a way to freeze your brain or body for the future for a...

Google’s getting my sweet tooth in a tizzy. Froyo isn’t even here for all of Android-land yet and there’s already word and specs on version 3.0. It’s being called Gingerbread (slurp, slurp) according to a Russian Podcast. According to the same podcast, the 3.0 update will be just for high-end devices as it brings in supports for some pretty high-end features. The handsets that would incorporate 3.0 would have to be equipped with a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM...

On schedule, iAds has gone live for iOS4 enabled devices. Not many seem to have been talking about it just yet, but from the initial reports it’s going quite smoothly. So far though iAds is just for North America but is that really a bummer for the rest of the globe? I mean can we live comfortably with iAds? I don’t know yet, when I see my first I’ll let you know. Engadget has showcased a Nissan Leaf iAd...

Human lethargy goes down a generation of failed attempts to make life simpler. Things that worked were named as machines or equipments and those that failed still earn the wrath of being called cumbersome tasks. When it comes to difficult activities, I would never guess that selling bananas would be one. It seems it was to some and now we have a machine that dispenses the fruit. Where else could you find something of this nature but in Japan;...

Airport scanners are meant to ensure your and other passengers’ safety, but recent reports are indicating that the levels of radiation emitted by the machines could actually be dangerous to your health. Dr David Brenner, Head of the Centre for Radiological Research at Columbia University, New York has said that radiation levels are up to 20 times stronger than was previously thought, and could therefore be carcinogenic. Dr Brenner went on to say that the risk to individuals is...