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An Amazon Drone is No Longer Just a Temp Worker in Its Warehouse
Around this time every year Amazon likes to generate free advertising by showing off some shiny new tech that everyone simply has to write about. This year, like in 2013, Amazon is showing off a new...
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Nook Glowlight Plus With Alternate Launchers (video)
Hackers have found a new and easier way to hack B&N's latest ereader. ADB is still required, but now Glowlight Plus owners can simply install a single file, run a couple commands, and turn their...
View ArticleFlexEnable Shows Off Flexible AMOLED Prototype in Video
Shiftwear would have you think that they can wrap a flexible epaper screen around a $150 pair of sneakers, but as the latest demo video from Flexenable (nee Plastic Logic) shows, flexible screen tech...
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First Look at the Icarus Illumina XL 8″ Android eReader (video)
First introduced in October, the Icarus Illumina XL is an eight-inch ebook reader which runs Android 4.2. It's powered by a dual-core 1GHz CPU with 512MB RAM, and 8GB storage. It also has a microSD...
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Video Allegedly Shows Home Button-Less iPhone 7 Prototype
Remember the speculation from October about the next iPhone lacking a home button? If the following video is real then that speculation has just been upgraded from the usual Apple gossip to the first...
View ArticleThe Doctor Who Coloring Book is Not Bigger on the Inside (video)
Penguin Random House is capitalizing on the growing popularity of adult coloring books with the release of a Doctor Who coloring book. Due out next spring, the book features the TARDIS, DW villains,...
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Just How Realistic Are The Poses of Female Comic Book Superheros?
Many people have criticized comic books for their unrealistic portrayal of women's bodies, and now Buzzfeed is picking up where blogs like The Hawkeye Initiative and other critics have left off. A few...
View ArticleApple Launched the iPhone Nine Years Ago Today (video)
Lots of companies like to boast that their tech is revolutionary, but when Apple unveiled the iPhone on 9 January 2007, they literally revolutionized smartphones. With its small, low-resolution screen,...
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HMH Exec Fired Over Video of Out-of-Context Quotes
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt fired sales exec Dianne Barrow this week after a video was published that showed Barrow saying that she hates kids, and that for publishers "it’s all about the money". You can...
View ArticleThe White House Pop-Up Book Takes You Inside the Executive Mansion
Pop-up books can do everything from doubling as a camera or planetarium to giving you nightmares, and now there's one that can take you on a tour of the White House. Scholastic has unveiled the book...
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Making a Book from Scratch is More Work Than You Think (video)
Johannes Gutenberg is widely credited with making books easier to produce and thus changing society by making ideas easier to share, but as you will learn from the following videos Gutenberg merely...
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Video: Amazon, Threat or Menace?
Who's up for watching some propaganda? Earlier this week Authors United held a recitation where a bunch of Amazon haters got together and discussed just how terrible the retailer really is. You can...
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Holst Centre Demos a Shirt You Can Read (video)
Integrating wearable displays like the promised Shiftwear sneakers into your clothing is still a lab project than a reality, and companies like Flexenable and Holst Centre are working to change that....
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First Look at the 13″ Onyx Boox Max, 9.7″ Onyx Boox N96.
A video was posted on MobileRead yesterday which shows the upcoming Onyx Boox Max and Onyx Boox N96 ereaders in action. The video was shot by Booxtor, one of Onyx's retail partners in Europe, and it...
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Game of Thrones Actor Puts Gay Twist on Shakespeare in Audible’s “Romeo and...
Audible UK has been producing original works since at least 2008 (*), and its latest original production is a clever twist on the historical footnote that in Shakespeare's time, all the actors were...
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Queen’s University Researchers Debut Latest in Line of Flexible Mobile...
For over a decade the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario has been developing new interface concepts for how humans can interact with computers, including mobile devices. Over the past...
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Donald Trump Attacks Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Video, Complete Text)
Determined to make orange face paint popular again, Sideshow Donald continued his campaign for the US Presidency this week with a new attack on Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and the media in general. Speaking in...
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Video: How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English?
English is a crazy language with irrational and illogical syntax which is largely due to a history stemming from Norman conquerors trying to hookup with Saxon barmaids. It has stolen bits and pieces...
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Sony’s Projector Concept Turns Any Table Into a Touch-Enabled Display (video)
Earlier this month Sony officially unveiled a new research and development program called Future Lab, and they were at SxSW a couple weeks back to show off their first concept designs. In addition to a...
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Comedian Pranks Subway Riders With Ridiculous Book Covers
The hot dudes reading Instagram account shows that there is always someone checking out book covers on the Subway, and prankster Scott Rogowsky has turned that to his advantage. He's printed a number...
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