There are always those greedy people who would wish for more wishes from a genie. They’re what’s wrong with this whole internet fairy tale. And now they’re using malware developed for pilfering credit card numbers to give out likes and followers on Instagram. For a price, of course.
     |
The Nook Simple Touch GlowLight is one of the best ereaders on the market. It has a very nice form and a great screen. And now it’s also the cheapest of its kind.
B&N just announced a $20 price cut, bringing the GlowLight’s price down to just $99. The ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite is $119 and the Kobo Glo is $129.99.
This price drop is right on schedule for B&N. The bookseller’s schedule has historically seen price drops and new model announcements before or during the back to school season. Amazon tends to wait until the Fall to announce new models and drop prices.
Powered by a front-lit screen dubbed GlowLight, the Nook Simple Touch GlowLight emits a pleasant glow that’s sort of different from traditional backlighting. It’s easier on the eyes but the light cuts the battery life in half — which honestly is not that big of a deal since it still lasts 2 months.
At $99 the Nook Simple Touch GlowLight is setting the new standard for ereaders. Front-lit screens offer a more versatile reading experience to their non-lit counterparts.
It’s entirely possible that new Nook ereader models are on their way. B&N is winding down its Nook Tablet operations but will continue developing ereaders in-house. And the bookseller will need new models to keep the heat on Amazon. Lower prices alone will not be enough.
I’m more interested about 3D printers than ink printers these days, but I couldn’t pass up sharing the Stack printer with you. It’s a concept by industrial designer Mugi Yamamoto that’s meant to save space and gives you a better idea of how much work it has done. Instead of a paper tray, it sucks up paper from its bottom then spits out printed pages on its top.
Yamamoto designed the Stack for his diploma project at ECAL. According to Wired, Stack is smaller than an A3 sheet of paper and is just about 2″ tall. It owes its compact size partly due to having no paper tray. In theory, it’s also easier to add more blank paper to Stack’s uhm, stack. I wonder if it’s okay to lift the device up and move it about while it’s printing. Aside from its practical features, Yamamoto also made Stack as a counterpoint to the “over-engineered” design of some gadgets.
Yamamoto already has a working prototype of Stack and is interested in mass producing the printer. He should make a scanner and photocopier that work like this too.
[via Mugi Yamamoto & Wired via Engadget]
Epson’s Moverio BT-100 is one of the more hackable headsets thanks to its Android control box, but few developers have given it a good look. The company may have an incentive for those coders — it’s holding its first-ever Moverio hackathon on August 24th and 25th. Those who visit Epson’s Long Beach headquarters on those days can design and pitch an augmented reality concept in hopes of winning a either $1,000 grand prize or one of two $500 runner-up awards. Space is very limited at just 50 slots, so you’ll want to sign up quickly if you’re interested. Whether or not you can attend, the hackathon is good news for Moverio owners that could soon get more use out of their $699 eyewear.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: Eventbrite
Chromecast may deliver on promises of sending wire-free video to TVs, but it’s not hands-free — or at least, it wasn’t. Leon Nicholls has unveiled a homemade Kinect app for the desktop that gives him gesture-based control of videos playing through Google’s streaming stick. While there’s just two commands at this point, Nicholls hopes to open-source the code in the near future; this isn’t the end of the road. If you can’t wait that long, though, there’s a quick demonstration available after the break.
Update: A few days later, Nicholls has posted the source code for his project; you’ll need to whitelist your Chromecast for development to use it.
Filed under: HD, Microsoft, Google
Source: Leon Nicholls (Google+)
Coinciding with the impending abandonment of Microsoft Points, the ability to rent and purchase media from Zune Marketplace will also be hitting retirement come August 22nd. A recently-posted FAQ on the Xbox website details the changes, directing current users to hurry up and use their remaining points as they’ll be worthless come that EOL date. For future service Microsoft is unsurprisingly pointing users to Xbox Music and Video, noting that the latter will also be accessible on Xbox One, Windows Phone 8 and browsers “later this year.” Unlimited streaming will be accessible through the Xbox Music Pass as you’d expect, and your existing media will continue to function as normal. Better yet, OG Zune Music Pass subscribers will still be able to stream tunes and obtain their 10 free downloads per month. Consider it another inevitable nail in the Zune brand’s coffin, while it lives on through Xbox.
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio/Video
Via: The Verge
Source: Xbox.com
It’s definitely one of the cooler laptop fans around, but how well does
it cool your laptop? Here is my evaluation of the Cooler Master’s
NotePal X2 Notebook Pad & Cooler….
It may have taken three days, but Microsoft has officially resolved its Outlook.com outage — and it has both explanations and long-term solutions for affected email users. Trouble began with the failure of a caching service for Exchange ActiveSync. The resulting deluge of reconnection attempts promptly overwhelmed company servers; a slow recovery was necessary to avoid another meltdown, Microsoft says. To prevent repeat incidents, the tech giant is both upgrading its network capacity and implementing a more elegant error handling system. While the fixes likely come too late for some users, they suggest that Microsoft has learned a hard lesson about the fragility of online services.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
Via: The Next Web
Source: Outlook Status
By Keri Gans for U.S. News
These days, hardly a day goes by that I don’t read something promoting kale as a nutritional powerhouse. Recipes that include kale are popping up all over the place, making you wonder how we survived without it.
More From U.S. News:
Read More…
More on Diet And Nutrition
Exercise could help people with HIV combat a common side effect of the condition, according to a small new study.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found that people with HIV who regularly exercised were around half as likely to have impairments in their brain functioning and experienced better working memory and information-processing than their less active counterparts.
Brain functioning problems are common among people with HIV, affecting nearly half of people who are positive for the condition, researchers noted.
Read More…
More on Health News
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
