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Regular readers, you know the drill: interesting product introduced, product splayed wide for nerdgasm pulp. iFixIt has the honors again, this time aiming its Xacto at the new iPod shuffle. After the usual struggle to open Apple’s un-serviceable (by consumers) gear, iFixIt notes that the functioning parts of the 3rd gen shuffle weigh only 10% more than a single sheet of letter-sized paper. Hit that read link for the visual gore — pretty amazing stuff at this scale.

[Via 9to5 Mac]
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Given that venture capitalists generally are not as excited about young companies that sell atoms as opposed to bits, companies innovating in hardware are a rare species at DEMO, the long-running technology startup parade. At this year’s spring conference, two companies introduced new devices. The plainly named Always Innovating introduced the Touch Book, a new entrant in the netbook category while the vowel diversity-challenged Avaak introduced the Vue personal video system designed for remote surveillance of a home. Both products cater to an increasingly mobile society that demands digital access on the go and share some similar characteristics, but the states of the market they address could make a major difference for them.

Always Innovating’s Touch Book is a lightweight touchscreen computing device that will sell for $299. It’s two signature features are a detachable keyboard – enabling the netbook to transform from a traditional clamshell to a “pure” tablet – and exceptional battery life of 10 to 15 hours on a single charge. The versatility of the hardware make the design one of the most appealing consumer tablet computing devices to date although the need to put the battery and processing guts behind the screen results in a thicker top half than one would find on most notebooks of similar size.

Still, one can use the device to casually surf the Web on the couch using the new mobile version of Firefox, show photos as a digital picture frame, or even attach it to a refrigerator using the magnetic backing that the company has put on the tablet. It’s a fine collection of atoms, but there’s one Atom you won’t find inside the Touch Book.

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By Andrew Liszewski

With a breakthrough that’s sure to have far-reaching ramifications, Thanko’s latest USB card reading pen includes not one, not two, not three, but four SD card slots! Now I find it kind of odd that I didn’t see this headlined on CNN last night, since it’s been theorized that pen-sized card readers could be built to maybe handle two cards, three at best if certain laws of physics were re-written. But four? Almost unthinkable. Until now that is. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, what a time to be alive…

Brando, the ball’s in your court. I know you’ve got the know-how to make a five SD card slot pen, but have you got the guts?

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Granted, we could personally think of much more amazing ways to put supercomputers to work, but maybe there is some sort of benefit to humanity by knowing precisely what our ancestors’ first words were. All that aside, the IBM ThamesBlue supercomputer has been tapped by language masters at the University of Reading in order to find that ‘I,’ ‘we,’ ‘who’ and the numbers ‘1,’ ‘2′ and ‘3′ are amongst the most ancient across all Indo-European languages. Comically enough, it was also found that words like ’squeeze,’ ‘guts,’ ’stick,’ ‘throw’ and ‘dirty’ were also markedly archaic, which sure says a lot about how men in particular, um, don’t evolve. At any rate, these new computational powers have reportedly opened up another 25,000 years or so of language study, so we suspect the folks on this project will be occupied for some time to come.
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This appears to have roughly the same guts as the G1 we already know and love, but Telefonica’s version of the first Android handset — like Optus’ — will get a name change to Dream. This one will also look just a little bit different, getting a more sculpted chin, but we don’t believe this to be a totally unique device — you can see the original model’s design DNA shining through above the beltline. It’ll be available for between €0 and €199 depending on your current subscriber status and the plan you choose, though we don’t have a release date just yet.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

Gallery: HTC Dream coming to Spain via Telefonica, gets a facelift
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So we guess we gave Sciphone too much credit when we thought its G2 was running real, actual, genuine Android. “Why would anyone ape the user interface,” we thought, “when the codebase is available to whomever wants it?” Silly us! Turns out the G2’s guts have absolutely nothing to do with Android other than the fact that the UI does a commendable job of looking like the real thing, though the presence of a stylus gives credibility to its KIRF roots. The hardware (which even gets a “Google” logo on the back) actually doesn’t look that bad — and it’s loaded with some apps that you won’t find on a G1 — but we’ll hedge our bets and wait for a new HTC, thank you very much.

[Via Android Central]