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Chris McGinn 7 hours ago
Barnes and Noble's new e-reader Nook has been more popular than expected. The retailer has announced they have sold out of all the units for 2009, but you can put your name on the waiting list for 2010.
Chris McGinn 1 days ago
Ripple is an online service that connects kids with loved ones such as parents on the battlefield or grandparents in another town through the magic of reading.
Chris McGinn 3 days ago
The much-hyped "biggest shopping day" of the year is just around the corner. I'm not usually a go-out-at-midnight shopper, but I might find something to tempt me this year.
Jessie Atkin 4 days ago
Forget the pedometer, no one cares how many steps you’ve taken in a day if you can’t find any relevant meaning in your movement combined with the rest of your day. That’s where the Fitbit comes in. The Fitbit can calculate anything from the miles you’ve traveled and the calories you’ve burned to how long it took you to fall asleep and how many times you woke up in between. For $99 the Fitbit is definitely a calculating time savor, and with the health obsessions sweeping the states I can’t see how Fitbit can lose. I don’t know how I’d feel about wearing the little thing around all the time, but hey, it’s not as ugly as it could be.
Jessie Atkin 5 days ago
The University of Washington has set out to manufacture another super power (sort of). Researchers at the university are working on the first bionic eye designed like a contact lens. Forget correcting vision, how about improving it? Picture visual holograms for pilots, web surfing, science fiction in general. Circuits and antennas are all included within the contact itself. Currently a separate device will send info to the eye, but hey, it’s closer (and smaller) than anything designed currently. Right now everything is still in prototype mode, it’s all still too big, too expensive, and too toxic for use in the real world. But it’s nice to know someone’s working on super vision.
