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Would You Pay for Online Magazines? iTunes for Glossy Mags

by Jay Garrett on November 26, 2009

iTunes MagTime Inc, Condé Nast and Hearst are the big hitting publisher that are planning to create “iTunes for magazines” – an online store where you’d be able to buy and download digital editions of their biggest magazine titles.

The obvious hope is that the online store would provide a bolster to the endangered and often overpriced (in my opinion) format.

The titles involved could include giants like Time, People, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker and Esquire.

Condé Nast and Hearst aren’t planning to release their own e-reader for these magazines and would rather build an app store where users could download content to a variety of devices – you know; puters, iPhones, e-readers and the like. By teaming up they’re hoping to share the cost.

As RWW points out: They’re going to have to change the content of magazines if they’re going to compete with content that’s already custom made for formats like the iPhone – have you seen GQ’s iPhone app?

So – the question is: Would you buy and pay for an online mag?

Remember that there’s plenty of free online magazines out there ;)

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PrintBrush – Tiny Hand Held Printer Coming Soon

by Jay Garrett on September 17, 2009

PrintBrush_redOoooo…..lookee!

British company PrintDreams reckons it’s ready to break out the world’s smallest printer called the PrintBrush!

The PrintBrush will print out in A4, black and white, at up to 600dpi resolution.

It works by you sweeping the device across the printing surface (generally paper) by hand.

The manual labour of printing does have a plus side though. It means that you’ll be able to print directly onto books, cards, boxes, furniture and everything else that will take print yet is usually seen as being unable to be shoved through a regular printer.

The other plus point is that the PrintBrush is to be sillent….shhhhh…….so sweeping out a few A4’s during your bosses boring speech can be done ninja style.

The lightweight (250g) PrintBrush connects directly to computers and other devices via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or infrared.

Word is that it’ll cost in the region of £120 and PrintDreams reckon the PrintBrush will be available by the end of this year.

Check out the vid of the tiny British printer at work:

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Google Launching Flipper – Tossing the Dolphin?

June 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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Google is set to release Flipper into the wild!
I’m trying to avoid all these puns on porpoise but I can’t help it.
Flipper is actually a new feature in Google’s “Labs” section.
If reports are correct, it’s a way of viewing news content in a more magaziney format, helpful for browsing on mobile devices.
Flipper should allow [...]

RFID Used For Amusement – Magazine

March 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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The world’s first web-connected magazine has just hit the shelves!
Amusement is a funky magazine all about gaming and style.
The latest issue is out now and it’s gone all RFID!
On page 2 of the mag you’ll get an RFID (Radio frequency identification) tag.
Whack the page up to an RFID scanner and hey presto! – you get [...]

TLD Codes Atlas – Pure Geek Art!

January 27, 2009 Click to read more →

Time to get your Geek on my little Geekaholics!
This is pure geek art I reckon.
We all know that .com is the most popular top level domain (that’s why I’ll be changing to GadgetyNews.com once I’ve got a redesigne sorted), every country has a unique TLD of its own known as a country code (co.uk for example).
Well, is the [...]