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Kopin’s entire system, which projects a 15-inch virtual display, is also voice-controlled, so you simply say the corresponding text on the icons to activate the functions.

The world’s first e-reader and netbook hybrid is set to start shipping next week. The dual-screen eDGe, made by Entourage, comes with a 9.7-inch E Ink screen on the left half, and a touchscreen LCD on the right, meaning you can use it as an e-reader, a notepad, or a regular netbook — at the same time.

“Pre-orders received by January 12 will start shipping at the end of this week. New orders will ship in March,” says Doug Atkinson, Entourage’s VP of Marketing and Business Development, in an interview with E-Reader.info.

The other big news is that Entourage launched its own e-book store to compete with the bigger boys, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the upcoming Apple iBooks store. Why not simply partner with someone already in the book business?

“Having our own e-bookstore allows us to offer books and documents based on our customer demand,” says Atkinson in the interview. Entourage is mostly aiming at public domain books – about a million of them in a partnership with Google – but have also managed to sign up publishers like Oxford Press, Ingram Digital and LibreDigital.

As reported by Gadget lab in January, the device will come with 4 GB storage, 2 USB ports and a SD card slot, weighing roughly 2.5 pounds. Which, when you consider Macbook Air’s 3 pounds, isn’t that light.

The $490 device runs on Google’s Android OS and will be able to handle Microsoft Office documents.

There seem to be some pretty cool features, though, especially when it comes to playing around between the two screens. You can drag a grayscale image from the E-Ink screen and view it in full color on the LCD one, or attach video (on the right screen) to a passage from an e-book (on the left screen).

When using two screens, or primarly the LCD screen, the battery life is 6 hours. When only using the E-Ink part, you can squeeze out about 16 hours out of your eDGe, the company claims.

Note: In case you were wondering why the weird capitalized letters, Entourage people say the “DG” in eDGe stands for “Digital Generation”. Edgy.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Friday published a trademark application for the term “Magic Trackpad,” which was filed earlier this week by Apple. The filing might allude to a rumored product we first heard about last year.

As is often the case with trademark filings, the item described by the application is too broad to draw any solid inferences on just what exactly a Magic Trackpad would be:

Computers; computer software; computer operating system software; computer utility software; computer hardware; computer peripherals; scanners; touchscreens; keyboards; computer mice; trackballs; trackpads; touchpads; light pens; joysticks; game controllers; graphics tablets; digitizers; cables and connectors; flash memory drives; USB drives; solid state storage devices; barcode readers.

However, the name of Apple’s new mouse is Magic Mouse, which has multitouch, so it’s likely this trademark is referring to a multitouch trackpad that will ship as a peripheral. Apple’s MacBooks already ship with multitouch glass trackpads, and we’d see no reason for Apple to file for a unique trademark unless it’s planning to sell it as a standalone product.

Most interesting about this particular trademark filing is we heard whispers about a multitouch trackpad gadget last year. Blogger John Gruber, who’s known for occasionally leaking details on Apple gadgets immediately before their release, alluded to a multitouch trackpad for desktops among a pile of other Macs he leaked accurately in October 2009. He labeled the trackpad as a “wild card,” acknowledging he was unsure of that particular item, and no such product was released in October.

Via Patently Apple

Photo of a MacBook Pro’s multitouch trackpad: huskermania/Flickr

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