Esquire magazine will be the first media that uses electronic paper as its cover. This so called E-Ink paper is made from millions of microscopic tubes, each one with a diameter less than that of single strand of hair. Each tube also contains white particle with positive charge and black with negative, hence this is how the technology manipulate composition of blacks and whites on the surface of the paper. The electronic cover will be used in only 100.000 copies that go to newsstands. Esquire overall circulation is about 720.000. Similar breakthrough was made in 1984 when National Geographic introduced Holography to the mass market by placing hologram of an eagle on its cover. The September’s cover will flash “the 21st Century Begins Now”. It will use mini battery that will last for 90 days. [NYTIMES]
Samsung has now announced budget version of its earlier Blu-ray Home Theatre System. HT-BD2E comes with 5.1 Channel System, 800 watts of total power. It has four satellite speakers, one center speaker and a passive subwoofer. Priced at $800, at almost half their first Blu-ray Home Theatre System HT-BD2T. Expected to ship in August. [BLU-RAY]
Here is a new cute mobile phone which is perfect gift for your girl. The Mouse Phone sports 1.3 inch TFT LCD screen and Bluetooth stereo output. The player also plays 3GP and MP4 video files. Other features include a 1.3MP camera, alarm function, MMS, and an FM radio. The Mouse Phone is priced at $225. [Product Page] Read more
Here is the new Gutar Hero World Tour: Drummer demo trailer. Drummers from Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, and Blink 182 show off Guitar Hero’s new kit. Video after the jump. [GT via Video Games Blog] Read more
Priced at at $3,699, the XtremeNotebooks 917V gaming laptop comes with powerful Intel Xeon X3360 2.88GHz Quad Core processor. This desktop replacement offers an optional 45nm Intel Penryn CPU, Blu-Ray drive, large capacity storage system with RAID 0, 1 or 5 arrays, dual NVIDIA 8800 or Quadro FX series graphics cards in SLI, and efficient OCZ Solid State SATAII HDDs. [PCLaunches via Laptop Blog]
Apple has announced that its Boston store, which is the world’s largest Apple store, will be opening May 15th at 6 P.M. So hang tight Apple fans, because it wont be long until paradise is officially unleashed. [Gizmodo]
Lenovo has released a promotional video for its new Lenovo IdeaPad U110 11.1 inch laptop. Priced at $1,899, the desktop replacement features face recognition technology, and some hot keys on the keyboard. The laptop is currently available in red and black. Watch the promotional video after the jump. [Engadget via Laptop Blog] Read more
Chevrolet has done a world’s first and unveiled it’s car fitting room in South London. This fitting room will actually show you, how exactly you look while sitting in the new car that you wanted to buy for so long. And for this, you need to drive the car onto a central revolve which will revolve around three gigantic mirrors. These mirrors of course will let you examine your car’s booty when you are actually sitting in it and then come to a conclusion whether the car fits you to a tee. If you want to catch this very new concept, head off to South London’s forecourt where this contraption is on display. [Gizmag]
Computerworld Malaysia is reporting that Broadband over Powerline (BPL) provider Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnerships to advance the world’s biggest BPL project announced earlier this month. The project intends offering 60 million people unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month. It’s the fastest and cheapest internet connectivity in the world. [Slashdot]
