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It's what we thought; The Sony Daily Edition reader is Sony's first (AT&T) 3G reader with a seven-inch touch widescreen display that you can rotate to view books in landscape. It'll be available in December for $399. Updated.
But yeah, check out how crazy wide that display is. Newspaper content announcement is coming later, unfortunately—as in weeks later, not later today. Also unfortunately, Sony only brought one model and we can't touch it. And while 3G will be free, just like the Kindle, wireless access only gets you access to Sony's book store, none of the other new partnerships announced. Boooo.

One saving grace? The electronic library program: The eBook store will now have a Library Finder page, where you type in your zip and it'll take you to local library, where you can check out books from your library electronically. Books will expire in 21 days. They're taking the "virtual library" concept fairly literally here, so libraries will have to purchase licenses for each individual copy, which is loaned and returned in the same way as a physical one would be. That means a library will have a limited stock of virtual books—weird, I know—all licensed from an outside company called Overdrive. We'll have to see what the selection is like before getting too excited about this, but it's a pretty cool concept. And hey, free books!

Also, anybody else disappointed there's no Barnes & Noble partnership to really fight the Amazon book Borg?

[gizmodo]

If you hate the traditional sound of the alarm clock each morning, then the $200 Philips Wake-Up Light ought to be worth a go. This device not only lets you wake up in a gentle manner using light instead of a grating alarm sound, but it also comes with an integrated iPod dock that lets you start the day with your favorite audio tracks. Whenever you want to nod off in dreamland, you can always let the light dim off slowly until you're no longer conscious of what's happening in this world, entering REM sleep.


[ubergizmo]

CTA digital has launched an iPhone accessory for racing games, and has launched a new steering wheel accessory for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

The iPhone racing wheel features a suction cup on the bottom so you can stick it to your desk or a table, it comes with a bunch of adapters that make it compatible with the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G & 3GS as well as the iPod Touch and iPod Touch 2G.

There is no word on pricing or availability as yet.

[gadgettastic]

Sony has announced the PS3 Slim, it will come with a 120GB hard drive, it is 32% smaller than the existing PS3 and 36% lighter, the existing PS3 price has also been reduced to $300 in line with the new model.

The PS3 Slim will be available from the 1st of September, and it will use 34% less power than the existing version, it will also feature a BRAVIA Sync feature that will let you control the PS3’s XMB with your Sony TV remote, and when you turn your TV off, it will automatically shut down the PS3.

[gadgettastic]

The eniCycle was designed by Aleksander Polutnik and is the lovechild of a Segway and whatever the hell this tihng is. And I, for one, would totally ride it. Without a helmet. I'm bad!

The EniCycle is powered by an electric 1000 watt hub motor that you lean forward to set into motion--just like a Segway. Measuring your vertical angle 100 times a second, the gyroscopes make adjustments to help keep you balanced.

Not only would I ride the hell out of this thing, I would do it juggling bears. And not just because I'm hardcore, but because I'm classically trained for the circus. Just sayin', I can eat fire (now booking birthday parties).

Q: What did the snail riding the turtle say?
A: WHEEEEEEEE!

See the video of the uni in action.

[geekologie]

This is latest advance luxury design based E-book FLEPIA Fujitsu gadgets product are presenting much gratefully future and whole part of body is based on latest advance concept and future. And today that we have good information for those wishing to read more of your books but have no desire to take them all and Latest gadgets product has finally launched its awaited e-book color is called FLEPIA.

And I think this is while great news and that is not all good news are given that the company has announced that the FLEPIA gadgets product that will be available at the moment only in Japan and I want to say that is interested should make a short trip or request to have your new e-book.

For those who do not know the difference between this and other models and that we say that the Fujitsu FLEPIA gadgets product has a touch screen 8-inch featuring 260,000 colors and a mini USB port. One of the interesting points of this machine is its battery and that as it offer up to 40 hours of use and that can be which results in the light of 2,400 pages are according to engineers from Fujitsu in which that can be controlled with a keyboard on the screen .

[gadgetsblog]

Eternaleds today introduced their new Hydrolux-4 LED lightbulb, which is the first LED bulb in the world to use liquid-cooling technology to give true 360 degree light like a regular light bulb. The Hydrolux-4 can lower your monthly electricity bill since it only consumes 4-Watts of electricity. Each lightbulb is rated for 35,000 hours of use, meanwhile the liquid inside is harmless paraffin oil that has been tested and certified safe to UL and ROHS standards. The Hydrolux-4 LED lightbulb is currently available in “warm white” and “daylight” flavors. Video after the jump.



[techfresh]