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  Amazon is holding a press event tomorrow to unveil the next iteration of Kindle with a larger screen. Amazon’s move for a larger sized e-book reader comes in order to lure newspaper and academic textbook publishers to adopt the platform. The first images that have surfaced, show Kindle DX (that’s what it’s called) with [...]

  Thank Thanko for fulfilling your office spying needs. Next time you won’t be called a perv for filming a hot gal in the office as your necktie will handle all your dirty video duties. The tie sells for 12,800 Yen ($128), has 4GB of storage and can store video recordings of up to 4 [...]

  Samsung has announced SPF-87H, an 8-inch digital photo frame. Destined to launch in Korea next week for 145,000 Won ($110) and followed by other regions, the frame has almost the same set of features when you compare it other digital frames in the market. Agreed, it has Samsung’s proprietary Touch of Color design and [...]

  Fujitsu has announced its colored e-paper reader, FLEPia is now available to preorder from Fujitsu’s FrontechDirect online store. For now it’s limited to Japan but if it ever comes to US, the great feature set can beat Kindle hands down*. It has an 8-inch touchscreen 260K color display with 768X1024 pixel resolution support, up [...]

  The scientist at Osaka University, Japan has devised a gadget that can control other gadgets. Mimi Switch can start a new track on the iPod, turn on the room lights and even start a washing machine, all with the help of user’s facial expression. The device looks like a normal earphone but is fitted [...]

  Amazon unveiled its Kindle 2 at a press conference yesterday. The new Kindle is slimmer, has a longer battery life, more storage and is faster than its predecessor. The Kindle 2′s thickest part measures just 0.36” and weighs just over 10 oz. The feature set includes a 6-inch e-paper display, 2GB of storage to [...]

  UPDATE:Couple of videos have been added below. [via Wired] Researchers at MIT have invented a great piece of gadget that can perform actions by simply using hand gestures. The Sixth Sense was shown at the TED 2009 which has been created out of commercially available products. The components used were a web camera, battery [...]

  Japanese company, Omron has created a smile scanner that could rate a smile on the basis of percentage, in real-time. The device takes factors like shape of eyes, mouth, facial wrinkles into account to arrive at the desired result. Omron says this scanner can be a boon to the trainees seeking a career in [...]

  This one’s strictly for our Japanese friends. NTT is selling an earthquake warning device, Urgent Earthquake News Flash FLET’S Type that will send quake alerts to the subscribers. When an alert will be issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency, NTT’s Urgent Earthquake Bulletin service will relay the message on the subscriber’s computer screen. The [...]

  There have been many solutions to purify impure water but the Skywater machines from Island Sky is a bit different. Its patented technology actually helps to create safe drinking water from thin air. The thin air is nothing but the water vapor that is grasped by Skywater to create hygienic water, which in optimum [...]

  “Here comes iPhone’s big brother: a 32″ inch (or larger) iTable with Multi-Touch,“ reads the press release. This ‘larger than life’ iPhone sans cellular capabilities is the creation of PQ Labs which is just an LCD TV laden with PQ Labs’ Multi-Touch overlay screen and the proprietary software. They are even demonstrating their device [...]

  Taiwanese company LiteOn IT has decided to shed its OEM route for digital frames and come out with its own brand. Under the brand name Skyla, LiteOn will now be selling Memoir, a digital frame with a built-in scanner. The scanner helps to digitize old hard copy photos (no larger than 4 by 6 [...]

  Here comes another creation from Philips, one of the biggest manufacturers of medical gadgets. They have created an intelligent pill or iPill which houses a microprocessor, battery, wireless information transmitter and a drug reserve to diffuse medication in case a need arises. The iPill quietly sits in the patient’s stomach and measures the level [...]

  Not so famous, USI recently showed up their mobile internet device at the Intel Developer Forum to take the crown for thinnest MID built on Intel Atom processor. USI MID-160 is one good device to look at and has equally good specifications in a slim 1.5cm profile. Its got a nice 5-inch WVGA touch [...]

  If Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) claims turn out to be true, the Australian passengers may face a hard time to fiddle with gadgets while flying. Recently, an Australia bound Qantas flight QF72 from Singapore suddenly lost control at an altitude of 37,000 feet and had to rush for an emergency landing. To add [...]