Literary classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are enjoying a revival, thanks to ebook gadgets like the Amazon’s Kindle. Kindles were the biggest selling products this Christmas, Amazon affirmed, as Britain finally embraced the ebook revolution. Owners of ebook gadgets like the Kindle and the Apple iPad can snap up the works of many [...]
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ebook gadgets help popularise literary classics
December 27th, 2010 |
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Google Shared Spaces Helps You Use Wave’s Gadgets For Easy Collaboration
December 22nd, 2010 |
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Although Google decided to stop work on the Wave project due to escalating costs and not-so-encouraging user growth, Wave did have a small but loyal user base. And there was absolutely no doubt in anyone’s mind that it was an incredible tool…ahead of its time may be. Now, Google has decided to make use of [...]
Google Shared Spaces Leverages Google Wave Gadgets
December 21st, 2010 |
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Google Shared Spaces is a new Google Labs offering that provides users with Google Wave gadgets to collaborate via maps, puzzles, polls, YouTube, Twitter and other tools. – Google made good on reheating leftover scraps from its failed
Google Wave experiment by launching Shared Spaces with gadgets from the defunct
real-time collaboration platform.
A new Google Labs project, Shared Spaces leverages more
than 50 gadgets, or mini-apps from Google Wave to let people col…
Great Gadgets from Christmas Past and for the Present
November 19th, 2010 |
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An IT gadget Christmas came a bit early to San Francisco when on Nov. 12 the "Gdgt" folks showed off the new wares of 40 mobile device makers at the Galleria. Big-name companies, including Hewlett-Packard, LG, Kodak, AT&T, HTC, Samsung, Belkin and Lexmark, were on hand to preview what they will be retailing in stores and online this fall and winter. Microsoft made a big push for its new Windows 7 phones; there were new laptops, phones, smartphones, gaming machines, printers, headsets, speakers& even some interesting new power-conscious power strips from Belkin that can turn off all that residual "simply connected" power in a home entertainment center. Look for these items in TV commercials and magazine/newspaper ads for the next couple of months. – …
Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial
September 29th, 2010 |
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1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just weeks away.
Frank Conrad was assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh. He’d been interested in radio since 1912. To settle a $5 bet (around $110 in today’s money) [...]
Apple, HP, Nikon Get Classy with Must-Have, Back-to-School Gadgets
September 2nd, 2010 |
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As students across the United States head back to classrooms and campuses, the allure of shiny new electronic devices is felt as strongly as the desire to skip Economics 101 every morning. The overwhelming selection of mobile computing devices, wireless connectors, digital cameras, multifunction printers and various gadgets may seem daunting, not to mention expensive. With that in mind, eWEEK is here to help you sort out the fast, functional and affordable pieces of hardware that you will need for the coming school year. While we can’t guarantee any of these will boost your test scores (or get you to that economics class with greater regularity), they’ll certainly make you think twice about spending your money on another keg of cheap, ill-tasting beer instead. – …
July 12, 1960: Etch a Sketch? Let Us Draw You a Picture
July 12th, 2010 |
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1960: The Etch a Sketch goes on sale.
The technology behind this children’s toy is both simple and complex. Simple, in that an internal stylus is used, manipulated by turning horizontal and vertical knobs to “etch a sketch” onto a glass window coated with aluminum powder.
Complex, because the Etch a Sketch employs a fairly sophisticated pulley [...]
10 Geeky Gadgets Everyone Should Have
June 25th, 2010 |
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When it comes to technology, it’s not all serious. Yes, the iPhone might be big business, but there are some gadgets that any geek who loves function and fun should have. They won’t necessarily generate the kind of sales that Apple or Microsoft enjoy, but they effectively achieve the same function as those companies’ products: usability. Finding 10 useful yet geeky gadgets that veer off the traditional product path is difficult. There are simply too few useful products amid all the junk. But luckily, not only will the following 10 products be worth showing off to friends, but they will be ideal for those who want to achieve a bit more functionality in their lives. Even better, the majority of these products are quite cheap. Here is what they look like. – …
June 25, 1967: First CES Dazzles New York
June 25th, 2010 |
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1967: The very first Consumer Electronics Show wows visitors with dazzling new gadgets. The show, like the industry, is about to grow huge.
Organizers held the first CES in New York City from June 24 to 28, 1967. The 200 exhibitors attracted 17,500 attendees to the Hilton and Americana hotels over those four days. On [...]
June 14, 1948: TV Guide Prototype Hits N.Y. Newsstands
June 14th, 2010 |
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1948: A New York attorney sees the future of American pop culture and publishes the first incarnation of what will soon become TV Guide.
Lee Wagner had distributed movie celebrity magazines during the previous decade. But a few months before madcap comedian Milton Berle became a national sensation by hosting NBC’s Texaco Star Theater, Wagner [...]
June 4, 1977: VHS Comes to America
June 4th, 2010 |
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1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago.
Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there was another home-video standards war that pitted Sony against another Japanese company, JVC. It was VHS vs. Betamax.
VHS, or Video Home System, was based on [...]
Nine Gadgets Every Geek Needs for Summer Fun
May 28th, 2010 |
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Now that Memorial Day is here, the summer is finally in view. Theres a sense of anticipation and desire to get out of the office and into the warm breezes and long, sunny days. But we know ourselves, dont we? No matter how pleasant the weather, were never truly happy unless our essential gadgets are within reach, even if its on the beach or by the pool. As people of discerning taste (when it comes to technology, at least), we want the coolest, most connected and cutting-edge gadgets, which is what this list is here to provide. Welcome to summer. – …
April 28, 2003: Apple Opens iTunes Store
April 28th, 2010 |
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2003: Apple opens the iTunes Music Store and starts to revolutionize the music-recording industry, one song at a time.
Between the mid-1980s and late 1990s, the media were undergoing a massive conversion from analog to digital. The music industry hated it.
Much to the chagrin of the Recording Industry Association of America, internet users quickly caught on [...]
Pocket-Sized Gadgets Use Sunlight to Power Up Devices
April 13th, 2010 |
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In the interest of both green IT and overall functionality, some new, eco-friendly charge-up alternatives have come into the market that we believe eWEEK readers want to know about.
– Everybody knows that the Achilles’ heel of electronic devices is keeping
them charged up especially when one is traveling.
When you’re on the road, it’s often hit-or-miss as to whether you will be able
to find a power outlet that works and a window of time to use it in order
to charge up a c…
Nine Gadgets to Geek Out Your Super Bowl Party
February 4th, 2010 |
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Whether a Saints or Colts fan, everyone can agree that a high-definition, beer-soaked and burger-filled Super Bowl party is close to a patriotic duty. However, the Super Bowl is about more than chips and dip, overhyped commercials, and overblown halftime shows. Theres the game, of course, but also the opportunity for you to show off to your friends the latest gadgets and gizmos to make your party the one to remember, whatever the outcome of the game.
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January 1997: CES Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas
January 7th, 2010 |
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1997: The Consumer Electronics Show, previously a semi-annual event in Las Vegas and Chicago, becomes a Las Vegas annual. The show is on.
Organizers held the first Consumer Electronics Show in New York City from June 24 to 28, 1967. The 200 exhibitors attracted 17,500 attendees to the Hilton and Americana hotels over those four days. [...]
How To Add External Gadgets To Gmail
October 20th, 2009 |
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The best thing that has happened to Gmail in the last two years is the introduction of Gmail Labs and then the subsequent additions of some really cool Labs features. We at Google Tutor are extremely fond of this feature and have written about it a number of times.
There are many nice Labs features [...]
Oct. 9, 1855: Music-Making a Steampunk Can Love
October 9th, 2009 |
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1855: A patent is issued for the steam-powered calliope.
Joshua Stoddard, a beekeeper and sometime inventor from Worcester, Massachusetts, was the recipient, although the instrument already existed in other forms before he staked claim with his own version.
The calliope works by forcing steam (or, later, compressed air) through a group of large whistles. Various sounds are [...]