Elonex launches £189 6-inch eBook reader through Borders UK

Elonex has been dabbling in small screen wares for quite some time now, so it's not a huge surprise to finally see it join the likes of BeBook, Sony and Amazon by introducing its very own eBook reader. Design wise, the 6-inch reader looks an awful lot like that played-out OEM model that everyone seems to start with, but hey, you won't find us kvetching about competition. The device is launching exclusively at Borders UK, and with that comes the new Borders eBook Download Store. With a 4GB expansion card, there's room for some 8,000 ebooks, and the 9 millimeter-thin frame ensures that this one won't bog you down too much. Interested consumers over in the UK can snap this one up right now for £189 ($311), and that price nets you 100 free ebooks, a charger, data cable and a great sense of pride.

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Star Wars Flash Drives

We see so many flash drives around these parts, it is truly, truly hard for any to distinguish themselves in our eyes. These ones? Well, we'll admit it: we have a giant soft spot for their massive noggins. Not the first Star Wars flash drives we've seen -- this newest set store up to 2GB per drive -- which isn't anything to throw a party over, but they're really cute, right? The set, which includes Darth Vader, Yoda (look at his toes!), a Stormtrooper and Boba Fett, will be available starting in October for $25 each.

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eMachines intros ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 desktop PCs

Just a few short weeks after eMachines outed its EL1300 line of SFF PCs, the company is hitting us up again with a new trio of full-size desktops. The ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 are all encased within a luminous white mini-tower and ship with a matching LCD monitor, speakers and a keyboard. As for specs, the $449.99 ET1300-02 checks in with an AMD Athlon X2 4850e (2.5GHz) CPU, Vista Home Premium, NVIDIA's GeForce G100 (512MB), 3GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, 18x SuperMulti DVD burner, multicard reader, HDMI / DVI / VGA outputs and an 18-inch E182H display. The $369.99 ET1810-03 steps to a 2.2GHz Pentium E2210 CPU, GeForce 7500 integrated graphics and just a single VGA port, while the $299.99 ET1810-01 cranks it down to a 1.6GHz Celeron 420 and 2GB of DDR2 RAM. The trio should be filtering out to respected retailers as we speak.


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New Planes Will Have Air Bags and Seats Less Apt to Rip Loose

WASHINGTON — At one time, airline safety generally meant one thing: avoiding a crash. But safety regulators are increasingly focusing on surviving one.

Starting this fall, all new airplanes will be required to have seats that will stay in place when subjected to stresses up to 16 times the force of gravity. The old seats had to meet stresses of only nine times the force of gravity. And, in a safety measure borrowed from automobiles, some seats will be equipped with air bags.

The combination of sturdy seats and air bags means that if a plane touches down short of the runway or rolls off the end of the runway and hits an obstruction, “You’re going to be conscious. You’re going to have the opportunity to survive,” said Bill Hagan, president of AmSafe, which makes the air bags.

In some airline crashes, the strength of the seats is irrelevant because the crash is not what the engineers call “survivable.” In other crashes, still violent but not as much so as exploding in midair or breaking up in flight, the passengers’ survival depends on suffering little or no injury in the first phase of the accident, as when a plane runs off the runway, and then getting out of the plane quickly to avoid a postcrash fire.

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LG introduces stylish, LED-backlit 22-inch W2286L LCD HDTV

LG introduces stylish, LED-backlit 22-inch W2286L LCD HDTV

By and large, there's nothing too incredible about LG's latest LCD HDTV. It's 22-inches, can double as a PC monitor, boasts a deceiving 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and consumes some 40 percent less power than the average Earth-hating 22-inch LCD. There's also a pair of HDMI sockets, a DVI port and a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, not to mention an automatic brightness sensor that responds to ambient light. There's no word yet on how pricey the 20 millimeter-thick set will be nor when it'll ship stateside, but hopefully it -- along with its 24-inch Full HD sibling -- will make the trip in short order.


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Pleo Dinosaur Review

Have you ever longed to be transported back to a simpler time when dinosaurs ruled the earth? Unfortunately, this isn'ta review for the engine to achieve that, sorry to raise your expectations! But you can be consoled by offering the next best thing; Pleo the dinosaur! Animatronic toy is designed to replicate the look and behavior of Camarasaurus in old age one week. Of course, the aforementioned lack of machine time to make quite difficult to determine what the actual behavior may have such as, but Ugobe, the decision of the Furby, who has been educated guess. Ugobe tells us that the Pleo will develop its own personality based on the subject. Wide array of sensors and motors that allow the baby to see a dinosaur with the environment and react accordingly. It sounds great but the question remains whether this really artificial intelligence to create a unique personality.

You Pleo dinosaur is equipped with sophisticated sensory systems that facilitate the vision, touch and movement. There are almost 40 individual device that is buried under the green skin, along with 100 gears and 14 custom designed motor. Some devices that are included in each Pleo is a camera-based vision system to allow the navigation and light detection, the two microphones to provide more realism in the dinosaur's hearing, and four feet on the surface for detection. Tilt orientation sensor that will surely have your Pleo complaining if you tip it upside down, and eight separate touch sensor will have to address each contact. In fact, there are an infra-red sensor in the mouth to tell new friends you know that you are trying to feed it.

Pleo strength is in the link of this technology to create what is essentially a unique personality. For example, when the battery is running low so they do not get the energy level of the dinosaur, you'll see the tail start feeling heavy and deceleration in each action. Special sensors on the skin, chin, neck, feet, head and torso akan see any violent jerks that you apply to the Pleo allow him to "feel" of persecution. You can rest assured that he will react to your actions, perhaps with the exhibition of the doldrums. A mistreated May Pleo recover enough with the love and nurture, depending on the life they have experienced. Reaction to events such as this is what the unique contribution of each personality Pleo.

Just like with your life being Pleo will be developed through various stages. Initially he will be content to just petted by sleepiness and you will be the main factors that make him become as entertaining as when he gets a little older. Things that he found as he grew and developed akan change in personality and long-term mood in the short term. Start a journey of discovery and acclimatisation to the outside world to a more intelligent with the Artificial Intelligence enough to enable him to act in accordance with any environment he may be dealing with, you can be sure there will be lots of entertainment along the road.

Pleo will let you know if he was hungry, with the shout and look forlorn. Akan said he is being petted and will make noise when jostled. What's more, if you enter something into the mouth, and try to remove it will even play tug of war with you!

Infra-red communication allows a Pleo to interact with others (or some other people). With USB port, SD and also easy to update online dinosaur with downloads available for it.

All you need for your new dinosaur is included with purchase. You will receive guidance from fellow tells you how to see after that, the training leaf, an identity card, a rechargeable battery and a power cable.

If you need a variety of Artificial Intelligence on the Pleo toy can be good for you. His ability to learn and grow in the environment is given with good will entertain children and inner child in every adult. The principle drawback seems to be very poor battery life of Nimh. Three to four hours of charging dinosaur akan only an hour, which can quickly become frustrating. However, if you can see past the inevitable delays that will be fun to have your own cute little Pleo the dinosaur seems still more than a reasonable investment.


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