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eBooks Outsell Their Paper Christmas Cousins for First Time

by Jay Garrett on December 29, 2009

As you’re a Gadgety News reader you’ve probably expected eBooks to overtake ‘real’ books on Santa’s lists for a while but now it has actually happened!

There’s now so much choice if you fancy getting an eBook and, as I’ve mentioned before, the fact that you can have a library in your bag without doing yourself a mischief has taken the e-Ink readers far beyond being a novelty purchase into a genuine, forest-saving alternative.

Amazon.com has announced that more people bought Kindle books than physical ones on Christmas day and so making it the “most gifted item in Amazon’s history”.

Amazon also claimed the Kindle was one of its highest selling electronics items alongside the iPod.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, stated that “We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history,”

Did you get a Kindle or any other reader for crimbo?

Let us know :)


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Kohjinsha DZ6KH16E – Laptop With Twin Slideout LCD Screens On Sale Now!

by Jay Garrett on November 27, 2009

kohjinsha_notebookClap your eyes on those beauties!

This dual-screened notebook that Kohjinsha has started selling in Japan today has just entered my wish-list.

I don’t neeeeed it, but how cool does it look?

Check out those twins of pleasure – two 10.1 inch 1,024×600 res LED backlit LCD screens that are squeezed in a compact body (size: 280×210×19〜42mm, weight: 1.84kg).

Under the hood is an Athlon Neo MV-40 (1.6GHz) with a RS780MN chipset and an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card, 1GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), a 160GB HDD.

You also get WiFi, three USB ports, a 1.3MP web camera, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, slots for SD/microSD/MMC/memory sticks and a digital TV tuner (which will work only in Japan and parts of South America) on board.

Kohjinsha says buyers can expect 4.5 hours of battery life max.

We outsiders can get our mits on one via Geek Stuff 4 U for $1,111.28 – oh, you’ll also have to be familiar with a Japanese layout keyboard ;)

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Tesco Direct Makes Sony PSP Go 11% Cheaper – Every Little Helps

August 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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That’s right – the Supermarket chain has cut Sony’s RRP for the handheld gaming jukebox that lands in October.
The PSP Go has a pencilled price tag of £225 but Tesco Direct is listing the PSP Go on its site at a pre-order price of £199.97 – that makes it at an 11 percent discount even [...]