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Ready for it? We’ve got more (and possibly less) on the color ASUS DR-570 e-book reader that stormed through our site over the weekend riding a wave of OLED anticipation. We now know that in addition to WiFi, 3G, and 122-hour real world battery life, we can expect lightning quick 0.03 second page turns (that’s about 23 times faster than the Kindle and its peers as you’d expect from a non E Ink display), 124 x 170 x 8.8-mm / 200-g footprint, 4GB of onboard storage with SDHC expansion, 512MB of SDRAM, and 1,530mAh battery. It also brings a built-in RSS reader, audio/video/Flash player, text to speech engine (presumably the Svox like the DR-950), and built-in web browser when it hits before the end of the year. There’s also a hint of online video streaming support via Amazon video on demand, 3D gaming and navigation (picture Blio page turning emulation), “One stop shopping for books, video, music,” and explicit support for ePub, PDF, txt, MP3, MP4, and AVI content formats.

The one thing we can’t confirm is the 6-inch OLED display originally reported; our data simply calls it the “world’s first 5.7-inch colorful eBook Reader” and we’ve heard rumors that Sipix (the panel of choice for the DR-950) is expected to ship a color electronic ink display in 2010. Doubt they’ll achieve 0.03 second refreshes with that though. Stay tuned as we dig deeper.

ASUS DR-570 color e-book reader gets detailed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not everyone has one of NeuroSky’s MindSet brainwave interface headsets lying around, but in the off chance you do — and you’ve got an N97 handy — this could finally be your ticket to a sharper wit, improved hand-eye coordination, better-smelling breath, and frankly, a whole new you. Forum Nokia regular Paul Coulton has recently thrown together the appropriately-titled Brain Maze for Nokia’s flagship S60 5th Edition set, reinterpreting the staple Labyrinth game for accelerometer-equipped handsets by adding in checkpoints controlled by the MindSet’s input — in other words, you’ve got to (gulp) think to advance through the course. It looks like it could be a blast, we admit — but considering how talented we are at completely disabling and unplugging our brains when we sit down in front of a video game, we could be spending months making it past level one. Follow the break for a little video of Brain Maze in thought-controlled action.

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The Buffalo Dualie takes two of the most ubiquitous items around — namely iPod and HDD docks — and does the inevitable by splicing them into one device. You should already be familiar with it from our CES coverage, but just to refresh your memory this is a dual-purpose docking station, accepting hard drives and iDevices of most colors and creeds. It comes bundled with a swish-looking 500GB storage drive, and we hear Buffalo is pretty cheerful about satisfying Apple’s stringent standards to make this an Apple Store exclusive. Yep, that means you can only buy this direct from Apple, but if you’ve already tasted the forbidden fruit once to get your iPod or iPhone, another bite shouldn’t really hurt, should it?

Buffalo Dualie dock hits Apple Store shelves originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Imagine the day when all-in-one desktops really mean it — no keyboard, no mouse, and not even a screen panel. This is precisely Pauline Carlos’ idea with her Froot concept — supposedly an entry for a Dell sustainable design contest. Sure, the color options are rather odd if not unappetizing, but if it only takes a virtual keyboard, a projector (maybe an efficient pico), a biodegradable chassis and Windows XP to save the planet, then we’re happy to oblige. Hey, there’s even a slot-loading optical drive, but bamboo discs are hard to come by these days. Now add some touchscreen Light Touch magic and we might be tempted to buy it, otherwise that cursor isn’t going to work without a mouse. One more pic after the break.

Continue reading Dell Froot desktop is a concept design that’s less tasty than it sounds

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As long as Dell chooses to be stingy with the details of its upcoming 5-inch Mini 5 (codenamed Streak) MID we’ll just have to suss out the specs from more nefarious sources. And who better to fill in the blanks than the kids over at Tinhte — the original source of the leaked Android handheld that got official at CES? The Vietnamese site did the world a solid today by tearing into a Mini 5 sample revealing a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, two microSD slots, and a bigger 1,530mAh battery than the original 1,300mAh baby we saw back in October. The site also confirms the SIM slot with 3G radio and taste for faux 80s metal. See what we mean in the video (and bonus pic) after the break.

[Thanks, Tran Manh K.]

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