Posts Tagged ‘gadgets’


The latest crop of eBooks are great for reading text, but what if one wanted to cook a meal or fix a leaky faucet and actually watch how it’s done, step-by-step? It couldn’t be done. But with miBooks it can.

A recent review called miBooks eBooks on steroids.

miBooks successfully expand the eBook category beyond just text and at a fraction of the cost – the miBook multimedia player costs under $100. Leading retailers, including Best Buy, offer the miBook player and titles.

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Good.iWare announces the launch of GoodReader Lite document viewer for iPhone and iPod Touch. GoodReader Lite is identical to the full version in the number of features, but limits the user to storing five files only at any given time.

As with the full version, GoodReader Lite excels at enabling iPhone and iPod Touch users to open and view very large PDF and TXT files. The app offers text search capabilities, plus active hyperlinks, enabling users to more easily navigate within the document or launch a linked document or website.

GoodReader Lite also simplifies reading large TXT documents with its Auto-scroll feature, which offers variable speed controls to make reading the document an easy hands-off operation. To make it easier to view large PDFs, GoodReader and GoodReader Lite both offer “PDF Reflow”

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Tim Hickman, who started and ran Speck Products, announced today he will exhibit products from Hard Candy Cases, a new computer accessory company, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the Las Vegas Convention Center from January 7-10, 2010.

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Kempler & Strauss Launches Next-Generation GSM Quad-Band 3G Phone Featuring Windows Mobile With Touchscreen and Trackball Interfaces

KEMPLER & STRAUSS BILLIONAIR 6

Billionair 6 Features a Powerful Processor and Intuitive User Interface to Deliver Best-in-Class Performance and Functionality to Support Advanced Applications and Multi-Tasking

Kempler & Strauss Billionair 6 is a GSM quad-band 3G phone based on Microsoft Windows Mobile and provides both a touchscreen interface and trackball for fast, easy, intuitive control. Integrated 802.11g provides high-speed connectivity to wireless LANs. Support for Bluetooth v2.0 ensures compatibility with in-vehicle and third-party headsets.

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