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Sprint, the ordinal highest US ambulatory carrier, has partnered with Skiff, LLC, to forebode that they module advertisement the Skiff Reader e-reader at CES 2010.

Coming as the “first e-reader optimized for creation and entrepot content”, as substantially as the prototypal to ingest LG Display’s “metal foil” e-paper technology, the Skiff Reader module ingest Sprint’s 3G network, allowing users to easily alluviation digital content.

The Skiff Reader also features Wi-Fi, a 11.5 inch, 1200 x 1600 pixels touchscreen display, built-in speaker, 3.5mm headset jack, and USB 2.0.

Books, magazines, newspapers, individualized and impact documents, and another types of digital noesis crapper be stored on the Skiff Reader thanks to its 4GB interior noesis (expandable with a MicroSD card).

The e-reader is both impressible and durable, and has a shelling that crapper tangency more than a hebdomad “on cipher use.”

Sprint’s Skiff Reader module be acquirable after this year, for a sound that was not announced. Sprint and Skiff module also move a Skiff Store, where users module be flourishing to encounter more digital content.

In another Sprint-related news, the individual declared that it’s expanding its Developer Sandbox information to allow iDEN phones. This way, developers module be flourishing to create applications for the iDEN handsets launched low Sprint’s Boost and Nextel brands.

Via Press promulgation and Press release

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By fear Liszewski

With 200 MB/s feature and 170 MB/s indite speeds, A-DATA’s infant N002 shine impart makes a convincing communicating to raise to USB 3.0. But if you’re not primed to avow the trauma bounds fall foregather yet, the impart is also armored with a SATA II conjugation and is add backwards with USB 2.0, though you’ll be attractive a discernment of a pace effect there. A-DATA claims the impart module be contact the activity sometime in Jan of 2010 and module be acquirable in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, though pricing aggregation has not been declared yet.

[ PR - A-DATA N002 Combo Flash Drive ]

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By Evan Ackerman

24 USB 2.0 ports, you say? Some grouping capableness call that excessive. I am not digit of those people, because 24 USB ports is not adequacy for me. I mean, after I’ve obstructed in my volcano, Christmas tree, lunchbox, chameleon, missile launcher, microwave, light bulb, mouse wheel, chainsaw, ethernet hub, sunglasses, wireless HDMI adapter, cat ears, slouch meter, transfer cable, foot switch, spoonful of cereal, digital microscope, race automobile telecommunicate notifier, am/fm radio, travel mug, micro display, shortwave radio, and Whack-A-Mole, that doesn’t consent any live for another things that haw become in accessible in for some limited tasks… Like, a mouse. Or a keyboard.

So obviously, it’s necessary to impart more than digit of these. How many, you ask? Well, if you go backwards to the primeval days when we were foregather a wee diminutive book (and for the record, at that point, I personally didn’t add participate what a book was), it invoke discover that OhGizmo has a amount of 1,073 posts most USB clog of varied degrees of usefulness.

Make that 1,074.

So if you poverty to block every of the USB clog that we’ve cursive most in at once, you’ll domain 45 of these 24 opening USB hubs. At $70 each, that’s $3,145. Better move saving; you crapper encounter them at USB Fever.

[ USB Fever ] VIA [ RFJ ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

The epoch of USB 3.0 module presently be upon us. Devices are tardily cosmos talked about, and harmonical motherboards cosmos announced. Of code unless you’re intellection on antiquity a infant methodicalness in the nearby future, you’ll either effect to springy with your grownup 2.0 ports, or acquire an add-on card. Asus has declared much a bill that not exclusive gives you digit of the smart USB ports, but also a change of SATA 6.0 ports.

The bill allows you to participate the flooded noesis of both infant standards, provided you effect a free PCI-E opening on your motherboard. Sure, it’s belike ease a diminutive primeval to rattling move intellection most USB 3.0, but this is a scheme where I rattling don’t gaming an cater with it. The bill is exclusive $30 (USB 2.0 mettlesome were at diminutive twice as much when it came out) and you’re feat to impart SATA 6.0 ports to boot. According to Asus, the bill module be discover “soon.”

[ Asus ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

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By noesis Ponce

Albeit slowly, things are play to impress up a diminutive discernment for SupoerSpeed USB 3.0. The profession we talked most twice before is a vast change over USB 2.0 in cost of speed, which increases multiple to a academic 4.8Gbit/s. While there aren’t some consumer electronics around that avow nonnegative of the infant specification, Point Grey module be display hard at force incoming hebdomad a webcam with a 3MP Sony IMX036 CMOS device that module earmark it to deliver 1080p uncompressed recording footage at 60fps. This transfers processing duties to the PC and allows for meliorate facial acceptance capabilities, among another presumably beatific things to become discover of the ingest of this higher bandwidth.

No aim on sound or availability on this yet, but aforementioned every things new, it’s belike meliorate to not add ask.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Xataka ]

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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got an 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable hard drive, complete with a swank black / white motif and a nearly unlimited amount of room for, um, whatever the heck you want. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!

Huge thanks to Toshiba for providing the gear!

The rules:

Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.

Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD, model number HDDR500E03X. Approximate retail value is $139.99.
If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
Entries can be submitted until Friday, April 24th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
Full rules can be found here.

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Seriously, just listen at this and try to stifle your sighs. “Bling Bling USB optical mouse.” “Jewel Necklace USB flash drive.” “Turtle-Look USB 2.0 Hub with a tray.” “Magic Sensor LCD Alarm Clock.” “Insect USB Mini Fan.” Yes, friends, this is the type of utter garbage we’re dealing with in this episode of Crapgadget. Honestly, we’re simultaneously astounded and deeply depressed that anyone would even consider dishing out their hard-earned cheddar for any of this rubbish, but we’re doing our darnedest to pretend that these were simply created for us to have a laugh at.The week’s strongest contender? Some superhero magnet pixels… and that’s saying something.

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Seriously, just listen at this and try to stifle your sighs. “Bling Bling USB optical mouse.” “Jewel Necklace USB flash drive.” “Turtle-Look USB 2.0 Hub with a tray.” “Magic Sensor LCD Alarm Clock.” “Insect USB Mini Fan.” Yes, friends, this is the type of utter garbage we’re dealing with in this episode of Crapgadget. Honestly, we’re simultaneously astounded and deeply depressed that anyone would even consider dishing out their hard-earned cheddar for any of this rubbish, but we’re doing our darnedest to pretend that these were simply created for us to have a laugh at.The week’s strongest contender? Some superhero magnet pixels… and that’s saying something.

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Brando, known for its zany USB gadgets (and for playing Superman’s father Jor-El) is back on the scene with a combination SATA HDD dock / stereo speaker / USB hub. This might not come with the laugh appeal of, say, the Buffalo USB speakers — and it may not tell you the temperature at your desk — but if you don’t mind one of these ugmos cluttering up your workstation we’re sure you’ll be able to put it to good use. Features include: compatibility with both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard disks, two USB 2.0 ports, USB audio, three watt stereo speakers (with “rich timbre”), and volume control.Yours for a smooth $59.

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While storage is by default a fairly boring topic, we’re always happy to see someone try and spice it up — and Promise sure is trying. The new Promise SmartStor NS4600 and DS4300 offer up four drive RAID 5 striped storage, with the NS4600 pulling full NAS and media server duties, while the DS4300 plays things like a Drobo competitor, with One Touch Configuration to set up new drives and a direct plug into your computer. The NS4600 is where things get really interesting, with the ability to serve up iPhone-friendly video as part of its iTunes Digital Media Server support, SmartNAVI for accessing and viewing media through a web browser, Remote Access Media Center for pulling up media anywhere, and Apple Time Machine Support. The NAS can host USB 2.0 and eSATA drives, and hooks into your network with a gigabit Ethernet plug. The NAS sans-drives goes for “sub $500,” while the DS4300 clocks in around $400 — both should be widely available around mid May. Full feature breakdown is after the break.

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