The growing screen size and touch capabilities of smartphones, in combination with some great apps, are making them formidable rivals to standalone navigation devices. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-31499_3-10470210-253.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Volume Up/a/p
We just got a quick look at one of those Vitality GlowCap bottles. It’s about as dead simple as it looks: the LED at the top of the cap glows (orange, but there’s also a blue mode that must mean something else like “you’re all going to die”), and with the right amount of adult supervision you can push down and twist off the cap. All the details of the service, which involves patent recognition to figure out the best way to remind you and incentivize you to take your pills via phone calls, flashing lights, and social network reminders, aren’t completely ironed out, but it sounds like Vitality is paying AT&T up front for the bandwidth — at least you won’t have another charge on your AT&T bill to worry about. Not shown is a base station that the GlowCaps connect to over 2G wireless (more unclarity here, but rest assured your prescription infos will be beamed over the internet via AT&T’s network), and which does the primary flashing when you need to take a pill.
Gallery: Vitality GlowCap hands-on
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There’s a lot of things you can peep with a 70x zoom lens–the moon being one.
We noticed a minor textual change on the JooJoo order page just a few days back, and apparently it was no mistake — Fusion Garage has announced today that its long-awaited tablet PC has started to ship from the factory. For those who pre-ordered (and stuck with it), they’ll get theirs as early as March 29th, while everyone can get in line by plopping down their $499 after the fact. So, who all here is fully anticipating seeing their Joojoo arrive on Monday? Anyone taking a sick day in order to enjoy it? Don’t fret — we won’t tell.
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JooJoo tablet now shipping, should greet US consumers on March 29th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We at CScout Japan are currently looking to recruit some new copywriters for one of our clients, an online retailer based in Japan. This is a great opportunity to hone your copywriting skills editing content in several areas.
Job 1
Japan Trend Shop sells select Japanese gadgets, cool designer accessories, wacky toys and more to customers all around the world. Your job would be to write copy that accurately describes products in an exciting way. Sometimes these products might be hard to understand for non-Japanese audiences, so part of your job would be using words to traverse those cultural gaps. You would also be preparing images and video links to accompany the text.
Job 2
As above you would be writing copy for products, but this time for Kanojo Toys, a specialist adult online store. We are also looking for people who can write for the shop’s blog, in which you will report on the seedy Tokyo underworld, covering unique stories, idol news, and JAV gossip.
Who
We want you if you are based in Japan (preferably Tokyo) and are enthusiastic about Japanese products. You may be a geek, a design fan or just adore hi-tech gadgets. Whatever you are into, you will love writing about it. You are a web-savvy person who likes blogging and image editing. As you will be researching in Japanese, your language skills should also be good.
Requirements
You need to have a valid working visa and be based in Tokyo (or least Japan). Equally important, though, is having a good ear (and eye) for how to sell cool Japanese stuff to an overseas market.
Payment
You’re not going to get rich, but payment will be per piece. Strong experience and skills will be rewarded with higher reimbursement. Further, there may be opportunities to expand into working with us in other projects from research to marketing.
Apply
Please email your information to contact (at) cscoutjapan.com, with “Copywriter application” in the subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!
You know what’s always been lacking in my universal remote control? A bottle opener. No more! The Clicker universal remote adds bottle opener for the ultimate couch potato gadget. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-13553_1-10470677-32.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Appliances Kitchen Gadgets/a/p
There are just two 3DTVs on the market right now—a plasma from Panasonic and an LCD from Samsung. Luckily, that means it’s really easy to spot which is the best. More »
This Robovie isn’t a dexterous grabber, a powerful computer or a walking tank like its Vstone counterparts. No, at first blush, the Robovie-mr2 is just your average designer Japanese cutebot, albeit one with an iPod Touch for a heart, but that’s exactly why this one foot tall bot makes the perfect spycam. No one would suspect it hides 18 servo motors, a miniature CCD camera, speakers and microphone inside its demure, puppy dog exterior (hear it speak Japanese after the break), much less that you can directly control every movement over WiFi. And even should they catch your Robovie eavesdropping, they’d be hard pressed to execute a being with such powerful charm. Hit up the gallery if you don’t believe us — this robot knows just how to beg for its life.
Gallery: Robovie-mR2 iPod-controlled robot
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If you ever doubted that our friends at iFixit were the kings of the nerdy tear-down, you can stop it right now. With one simple (and rather big) info-graphic, Kyle Wiens and his minions have managed to detail almost every difference between the flagging Nexus One Googlephone and Apple’s iPhone 3GS. And despite a huge defeat in the first month’s sales (almost three million versus almost 100,000), the Nexus wins in just about every category.
In fact, if the cellphone market were instead a game of Top Trumps, Google would be killing it. From its bigger, higher resolution screen through its processor and the RAM available to it to its easy-to-replace battery (two steps vs. the iPhone’s whopping 16 steps), it has the iPhone beat. Why, then, is nobody buying them?
We’d say software. From one end, the iPhone has roughly a zillion apps available, against the tens of thousands in the Android marketplace. And from the other end, it seems that the real, normal cellphone buyer could care less about multitasking, preferring something that is just easy to use.
We have seen this before, remember, in the MP3-player market. Everyone tried to compete with added features, from FM radios to voice recording, but people kept buying the iPod because it was easy, it worked with iTunes and it was what all their friends had. If Google or anyone else is going to beat the iPhone, it had better come up with something that isn’t just an old desktop style OS made for the small screen.
Nexus One vs iPhone Infographic [iFixit. Thanks, Kyle!]
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