Digital Tablets and E-Readers

I love Poly. This iPad app allows you to draw points on any photograph, turning it into a colorful mosaic of polygons. The effect is really pretty. Sadly, it’s optimized for iPad 2 and runs slow on the first iPad. More » Gizmodo

Amazon’s extra-large Kindle DX is available this weekend (which is to say for the next few hours) for the low, low price of $ 259, down from its normal $ 379. It’s telling that even the lowered price still seems ridiculously high, considering that smaller but more advanced models are selling for under $ 100. [...]

HP’s original Slate 500 was a highly anticipated tablet that failed to make a splash, but found itself a loyal group of followers. Now months after the TouchPad’s sadly curtailed run, HP is returning to its Windows stomping grounds with the Slate 2, a refreshed model with some tweaks more appropriate for touch and pen-based [...]

If you are still mulling over just which tablet you should purchase (other than the iPad, of course) for your loved one this coming Christmas, perhaps you might want to consider the plethora of Android-powered options. For example, tablets running on the Android operating system are dime a dozen, so just which model should you [...]

During World War II, there were a lot of technologies proposed that seem outlandish by today’s standards. One of them was by a British inventor named Geoffrey Pike, who wanted to build an aircraft carrier that was mostly composed of ice. He wanted to build it using Pykrete, a material that is 86 percent ice [...]

Apple’s Thunderbolt Display will finally be shipping to retail stores this week. The revamped 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display was first unveiled back in July alongside the refreshed MacBook Air, both touting a new high-speed 10Gbps Thunderbolt connector port. But, the display hasn’t made any progress to store shelves until now. According to MacRumors, the [...]

ASUS is planning on launching their newest mini-ITX FM1 motherboard ‘F1A75-I Deluxe’ in Europe at the end of this month. The F1A75-I Deluxe will have a price tag of 109 Euro (about $ 156) and comes bundled with a mini wireless keyboard. Based on AMD A75 chipset, the F1A75-I Deluxe supports for AMD’s new FM1 [...]

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Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongside the first iPhone SDK, when the firm announced that it would be investing $ 100 million in iPhone applications made by third-party developers. [...]

Anyone who recently purchased a MacBook Air may soon be kicking themselves as the next generation of Macbook Airs with Sandy Bridge processors could launch as early as July. A note obtained by AppleInsider from Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo indicated that Apple has placed an order for about 400,000 of these next generation MacBook [...]