Sub $50 tablet? Yup running Android. Cheap, but good? I will do more follow up on this later tonight, but I wanted to get this posted. From Penn-Olson India’s much-hyped $35 ‘Sakshat’ tablet appears all set to go on sale at the end of this month, after experiencing a delay earlier this year. Originally intended to be a $10 tablet, there are still very… Read More
Augmented Reality Event 2011 video Still recovering from an augmented reality that happened last week. The video footage below shows elements from the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) 2011 in Santa Clara, CA on May 17-18. This was the 2nd annual event of the largest conference dedicated to the business of augmented reality. Start-ups, developers, mobile and hardware companies along with… Read More
Narrative Technology, an ebook by Al Gore and 3 Dreams of Black I had to share these 2 items that leverage innovative tools and technologies to tell better stories. First is Our Choice, an interactive e-book by Al Gore. Our Choice is an interactive 400-page book with videos, photos, and info-graphic content that illustrates how powerful interactive story telling can be. It was developed in collaboration with… Read More
Asus Eee Pad, the first Tablet that can actually offer more then the iPad I cannot count how many tablets have come out saying they are better then the ipad this way or that way, all bullocks of course. However, now we have and offering from ASUS that at least appears as a viable competitor. The ASUS Eee Pad. Strange name I know, but a very straight forward offering.… Read More
You cannot do email, calendar etc on the new RIM playbook without a blackberry phone. What? Just to be clear, I have not played with the RIM Playbook for more then a few min and that was a beta model. It seemed pretty good for a beta back then and I was looking forward to seeing how it will do when finally released to the market… Then I read this on… Read More
Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Computer Tablet Review By @24k This review post was written by Christopher Rauschnot and originally posted to Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Tablet Computer Review. You can follow him on Twitter @24k & @24kMedia and the 24kMedia Facebook Page Sets of tablets were announced in late 2010 that were going to be shown off at the upcoming International Consumers Electronics Show… Read More
Acer stock plummets in midst of identity crisis Taiwanese computer giant Acer wants to be like Apple with premium products and high margins. Now it thinks it has a more promising future in tablets, Bloomberg reports. This is a big change in Acer’s strategy. The company has previously focused o…… Read More
The WebOS TouchPad is Great! And I dont Care! I want an iPad2 We have the first look at the HP TouchPad running WebOS and from what I heard (no I was not there) it’s great! Snappy! Well designed! Great Multitasking! Works seamlessly with the new Pre 3 and other WebOS phones! … I dont care. We not ‘ME’; I’m actually dieing to get my hands on one… Read More
Android Market and OS update from the sweet Honeycomb I have not had a chance to really did into todays announcement from Google so I’m going to do a quick post here with some bullet points video below. I’ll return to this post with deep thoughts later today. There is a lot to take in; and not all of it is new news. The… Read More
Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet It was only a matter of time. You can already control your TV (with ComCast) through the iPad, and HULU has been doing this for a year. This is not a breakthrough as much as an indication that cross platform media is going to be more and more common place. Comcast Corporation today announced plans… Read More
What are the new features with the iPad2? Not sure, but here is a good guess As with anything with Apple, including what Steve is going to have for breakfast is a secrete. But like most things, the clues are there if you just look. As with the iPhone4, do not expect a revolution in the iPad but instead many of the features and function we thought we would have seen… Read More
The biggest working iphone EVER!! Iphone Table! Its called the iphone Table (table.connect), pretty logical, and basically you connect your iphone to a cable and (for now) pull up a dedicated app and them boom! You have your iphone on this monster table! And the table responds to touch. … Read More
How to get GPS on your ipad using BTstack So lets say you decided to get an iPad. And you did not get the 3G iPad with GPS on it because you wanted to save a few bucks. Out of luck? Not really. There is a way to turn that iPad into the coolest GPS turn by turn device ever. How? Buy a cheap… Read More
Video: Flash on the new Samsung Galaxy Android Tablet Here you go. I think the demo says it all. Flash running on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. Yes, the great tablet war is alive and well.… Read More
Remember the JooJoo tablet? its still a player, just not fully playing Remember back in the day when TC’s Micheal Arrington had an idea for a simple tablet that he can operate from his couch to do basic things; mostly around web browsing? (read ipad) Then the he and the group he was working with had a falling out? And then they tried to do it on… Read More
Playing with the Android tablet Alpha Actually, I’m not even sure I should call it an Alpha. The folks at Adobe basically hacked together this device to run android so that they can show Air displaying a magazine. Now.. WHY would someone take a CLEARLY hacked device to a show? Perhaps because they are so pissed at Apple they were willing… Read More
The HP Slate dies. 2 major players killed in the Tablet War in one day! Wow. Just read in Techcrunch, ( ta for the tip @thekenyeung ) that HP is killing the slate. At least in its current format. There is a possibility it can come back running WebOS. But till we know for sure, its dead. So who is left? Google. I have not heard much on the gSlate,… Read More
HP Slate specs leaked. The Great Tablet War goes to round 2 A challenger appears!! The Great Tablet War continues. Apple was the first major player on the field and completely destroyed all competitors to the point that we cannot even remember their names… But that dominance will only hold for so long. On Engadget (who else) we have a leak of the new HP Slate. And… Read More
Most Kindle users would rather have an iPad I’ve been using tablets for years.. Years! So when the Kindle first came out, my first reaction was, meh. Partly because of the price point, and partly because I knew that something that focused on text and ignored rich media was simply too one dimensional of a device. I have friends that have kindles, and… Read More
D&D on a touch table! This is not your Dads D&D! So sweet. I saw this a few days ago on CrunchGear but have only had time to write about it now.. WAYY back in the day, when I was a young’in, I played D&D. Yes I admit it. Course’, at the same time, I was just starting to learn guitar, and when I found I… Read More