Amazon, which announced its “Frustration-Free Packaging” initiative back in November of last year, promising to kill clamshell plastic casings and the like — is making good on its word and stepping up the effort again. Joining the ranks of partners Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend, Amazon’s announced that Kingston Technologies is throwing its weight behind the drive [...]
This most peculiar Kindle Holder is literally a hollowed out book. So you can carry around your hi-tech ebook reader in, well, a book. Isn’t that defeating the purpose a little bit?
The maker of these things also makes other gadget holders. You can keep anything from an iPod to an iPhone (if they aren’t the [...]
Yesterday I posted about an iPhone app that helps you locate London Tube stations from the street, and wished for a New York City app. Well, looks like there is one, but not from the same makers.
As a NYC resident and chronic user of the MTA Subway system, I have a problem. When I get [...]
Ah, the familiar, musty scent of old books in a library. The correct mixture of mildew, dust, and aging paper is enough to make anyone sneeze. But as Google and the world’s ebooks start digitizing everything, that particular charm may in the near future be privy only to the weird occult and antiquated folks that [...]
One of the up and coming technologies in the past year has been e Ink, which drives the Amazon Kindle ultra-thin display. But not only are e Ink displays thin, they’re also flexible. And now they’re touch-sensitive. Think 1mm thin iPhone you can roll up. Or, tablet PC that rolls up into a little tube [...]
Today Amazon’s eBook brainchild Kindle grows up, a day early. The buzz around its release is well warranted – this iteration is beautifully thin, sleek, and has a ton of new features including instant dictionary searching, text annotation, and read-aloud audio. Traditional booksellers like Barnes & Noble are nervously watching Amazon and the growing eBook [...]
Seems like I’m having a bit of a brain fail today. That’s what I get for drinking my weight in bourbon. Anywho, here’s your Friday fails . . .
Since Fail Blog seemed to be short on tech related content this week, I decided to dig deep into their archives to procure [...]
from Darren Murph at Engadget:
Beginning today, consumers who are tired of borrowing the fire department’s Jaws of Life to rescue their new USB drive can opt for products in Amazon’s “Frustration-Free Packaging,” which utilizes streamlined packaging that often includes recyclable cardboard. 19 products from the likes of Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend are currently available [...]
Apparently our friends at Techdirt had a bit of a problem recently: all of their comments on their website disappeared.
The reason? Human error. But instead of trying to cover it up or blame it on a “glitch” similar to the one they reported about that “happened” to Amazon, they came clean and [...]
