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When longtime Xbox lead Marc Whitten left for Sonos recently, Microsoft was left without an exec to lead up one of its most powerful divisions. Today, Phil Spencer is stepping in to fill that spot — not exactly a surprise given Spencer’s past role…
When NASA needs to ship its outsized spacecraft components between production, testing, and launch facilities around the country, there is only one plane big enough, powerful enough, and—most importantly—wide enough to do the job: the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy.
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No less than six patrons of the Port Orange Library in Florida have been attacked by a pair of book-hating hawks over the past week. Now, the library is protecting its brave bibliophiles the only way it knows how—with umbrellas.
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Toshiba is no stranger to Windows tablets, but what we’ve seen to date has typically been targeted at businesses or has otherwise been… limited. In that sense, the Encore is something special. It’s not just the company’s first 8-inch Windows tablet…
Why is my laptop on? To answer this question sufficiently, I found a four-year-old boy on the street, offered him candy, kidnapped him, and now every time I think I have the answer to the question, he’ll ask "Why?"—because that’s what four-year-olds do—and that’ll force us to get to the real answer. We’ll call him George. Everyone say hi.
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In a profession such as the legal line, you would definitely have to deal with paper. Plenty of paper, so much so that sometimes, you do wish that the entire shebang can be digitized so that all of the documentation required can be carried up and around on a single tablet. Sony might have a hand in that, as they have just announced the Sony Digital Paper, providing professionals with a new way to read, annotate, and share documents electronically.
You might groan, “Oh no! Is it another tablet device?” Well, it is and not at the same time. The Sony Digital Paper was specially designed to increase productivity and streamline collaboration in paper-intensive environments, where it will hopefully appeal to a range of user communities that will include legal, higher education, governmental agencies and corporate board rooms.
Sporting a ‘notepad’ feature that will have universal appeal, these notes can be shared with clients, colleagues, and co-workers. The Sony Digital Paper will boast of a simple, intuitive experience, where professionals will benefit from portability and flexibility alongside the ability to wirelessly access document management solutions as well as other content repositories.
Hardware specifications of the Digital Paper include a 13.3 inch display that shows off full-screen views of letter-sized documents in the PDF format, hence doing away with the need for zooming in or scrolling when reading a page. The Digital Paper device will also be able to retain the context of an entire page as it shows off sharp, easy-to-read text and graphics which are more or less similar to printed documents or full-size notepads.
There is also a touch panel that enables users to operate the menu, or to help them turn pages by simply touching the screen. Sony has also thrown in a stylus, so that professionals are able to write fluidly and directly on the panel. You will have to wait until this May for the Sony Digital Paper to be available though, as it carries a rather hefty price tag of $1,100.
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[ Sony Digital Paper targets the professional fraternity copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
I am a big fan of The Walking Dead and watch the show each week. I haven’t watched the finale for this season just yet, but I am itching to. The zombies are always munching on some disgusting body parts ripped from a person or animal. I always wonder what they are really eating in those scenes.
Clearly, the actors in zombie garb are really chewing something. A new video is floating around out there from CineFix that goes over some things about the show you might not know. One of those things is what they are really eating.
The answer is a big chunk of ham. I can only imagine they have a hefty ham budget. Early in the series, they coated that ham in barbecue sauce to make it taste better. The problem with that was that the vinegar in the sauce dissolved the makeup. Watch the video for yourself to see other cool tidbits about the show.
[via Laughing Squid via Nerd Approved]
Tomorrow the game known as Goat Simulator will be released to Steam formally. This game was originally meant to be a simulation for simulations’ sake, but because of its popularity … Continue reading
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 may have hardly reached user’s hands, but it’s already being called the best smartphone display not only of this current generation of phones, but of handsets ever … Continue reading
Philips has been making light bulbs for as long as anyone can remember, but the company might actually soon make them obsolete with its new OneSpace illuminated panels, which promise to make entire ceilings glow to light up a room.
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