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The note’s short and sweet, but it confirms that Google‘s buying spree is still on — BlindType was just acquired by the Big G. If you’ll recall, we were wowed back in July by the software’s ability to predict words regardless of how text was inputted, and it seems as if a few bigwigs within Google were as well. It’s unclear what Google’s Android team plans to do with its newfound IP, but you shouldn’t have to strain your imagination too hard to hazard a guess. As for the BlindType team? They’re “excited to join Google, and look forward to the great opportunities for mobile innovation that lie ahead.” Likewise, folks… likewise.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

BlindType acquired by Google, Android typists grin uncontrollably originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Two bits of bad news, one bit of good, folks. First with the latter: RED is putting HDRx in its upcoming Scarlet camera. No, not quite the halo-inducing HDR you’re probably thinking of, this is better. Got that? Good, now for the lesson in TANSTAAFL: the upgrade is going to add about $1,000 to the Scarlet’s eventual price tag, and additionally, there’ll be a “slight delay” in the program. Just hang in there, and maybe grip your Mysterium X a little tighter tonight. No, not that tight, you don’t want to break it.

RED Scarlet gets HDRx capability, $1,000 price hike, and ‘slight delay’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A number of companies have designed iPhone and iPad cases to look like notebooks similar to Moleskine, like the DodoCase, the Little Black Book, and the BookBook. Now, Moleskine has decided it wants in on the game. Moleskine’s new Smartphone Cover and Tablet Cover take the company’s classic design and applies it to a line of cases that both protect your mobile device and give you something to write on if you need to jot down some notes.

The two new tools feature a smooth black cover with an elastic strap to keep the cover in place over the face of your device. Inside each case is a a small notebook for notes and doodles. The two new products compliment Moleskine’s e-Reader cover for the Amazon Kindle, and you can sign up to be alerted when they’re released at Amazon.

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The way we saw it, it was Moleskine vs. the inevitable march of 1s and 0s that would eventually consume us all. No longer (actually, Moleskine already sells a Kindle cover, but we’re temporarily ignoring that for argument’s sake). Moleskine just announced a Digital Covers line of hybrid notebooks that include a pad of regular, “legendary” notebook paper alongside a cozy spot for your i-device of choice. Will this combination (some might say compromise) make you smarter, your prose more concise, your beard more intellectual? Of course it will. But at what cost? Sure, literature survived the decline of penmanship with the emergence of Mark Twain and his typewriter, and Douglas Adams championed the Macintosh to no end, but now that Moleskine has gone and sullied its own reputation we’re finally ready to just go ahead and say it: the novel is dead.

Moleskine launching iPhone and iPad cases: how would Hemingway play Angry Birds? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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