Amazon Releases Gigantic New Kindle
Just a few weeks after unveiling the new 9.7″ Kindle DX, Amazon skips ahead 6 models to bring you the biggest, highest powered e-reader ever conceived: The Kindle 9XXXD. Check it out:
Category Archives: Gadgets
Portable CD Players Make Cheap Space Gyroscopes
In the following video, International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization via the help of several portable CD players which, in microgravity, are spinning and, at the same time, not spinning. [Via Neatorama]
Using iPhones to Track Students
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The headline to this story from a Japenese newspaper is “Aoyama Gakuin U. To Hand Out Free iPhones to Students.” I guess whether you see it that way or as “using iPhones to track students” is kind of a glass half empty or half full kind of thing. But […]
Apple gossip-mongers keep taking the tablets
There are more rumors this week that Apple is planning a tablet computer – an internet-enabled device with a large touchscreen rather than a separate keyboard. But the excitement appears to be based on who the rumors come from, not the detail behind it. The basics of the rumors have been floating around for some […]
Introducing the Dog-o-Matic – An Automated Washing Machine for Dogs
Once upon a time, a French entrepreneur named Romain Jarry woke up one morning and thought: What could I invent today that no one has ever thought of? An automated washing machine for dogs of course! Ok, maybe he’s not the first person who thought of the idea, but it’s the first time I’ve heard […]
Tony Hawk games get more realistic
Got your NES gun? Got your Wii Fit board? Got your Rock Band drum set? Well get this… Activision has announced the next game in its skateboarding series, Tony Hawk Rides, complete with a plug-in skateboard peripheral. It’s tilt sensitive and includes a series of buttons on the side, though the way these will be […]
Modded Roomba Lays Down Graffiti for its Brother to Clean Up
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you are familier with iRobot, the people who make the everybody’s favorite robotic vacuum cleaner, you know they are famous for their hacker spirit. There’s even a hackable version of the Roomba to support the community of tinkerers who have gathered around it. Well iRobot has been doing […]
Jetpacks Go Mainstream
Capable of 30 minutes of flight at around 60 miles per hour, the Martin Jetpack can apparently go as high as 8,000 feet in the air. Naturally, its creator has equipped the device with an integrated ballistic parachute, just in case something goes wrong with its engine while you’re flying around. You certainly wouldn’t want […]
Cellphone Users Trading Phone Wires for Booze
The number of homes relying solely on cellphones has risen so rapidly that it has now overtaken the number which are landline only. The figures come from a report which also shows cellphone only householders are more likely to be binge drinkers. During the last six months of 2008, 20.2 per cent of homes in […]
Giant Kindle targets commuters and students
Amazon is set to unveil a new Kindle reader with a much larger screen designed for newspapers and magazines. The new model may also be an attempt to capture the textbook market. The company has a press conference scheduled for a New York university tomorrow, but the news of the device has already broken. Pictures […]