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LeapFrog’s LeapReader pen teaches reading and writing, on sale in July for $50
Author: jos
With its latest device, LeapFrog’s continuing to fight the good fight: teaching kids essential skills through the power of consumer electronics. LeapReader’s a sort of spiritual successor to the company’s Tag line, maintaining the reading tool’s pen-like form factor, while adding writing to the equation. The device continues to read out words and sentences, adding in the ability to trace letters and write them out on its special paper. LeapReader encourages kids to trace the lines of letters and then try things on their own, after a couple of goes. The pen’s got enough space to hold 40 books or 175 song, which can be played through an on-board speaker or via a headphone jack on top — and you can also play books purchased for your Tag device.
Interested parties will be able to pre-order the $ 50 LeapReader on June 12th. It’ll be hitting retail locations and LeapFrog’s site early the following month, with a few months to spare before back to school rolls around. The pen’s targeted toward kids aged four to eight (and, thankfully, is designed to only write on designated books) and will come in pink and green. Check out a demo video of the device after the break.
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Alt-week 4.7.13: Skylab II, reading your dreams and addiction fighting lasers
Author: Tiffany Shoman
Alt-week peels back the covers on a few of the others curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Development, devolution, review-lution. Okay, so we made that last one up. But if they ever do invent a device that can re-view your dreams completely HD, we’re betting that’s what they’ll be calling it. The even much better news is that that’s potentially not as insane as it appears as we learn this week. What week? Why, alt-week obviously.
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Alt-week 4.7.13: Skylab II, reading your dreams and addiction fighting lasers
Author: Tiffany Shoman
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Evolution, devolution, review-lution. Okay, so we made that last one up. But if they ever do invent a machine that can re-view your dreams in full HD, we’re betting that’s what they’ll be calling it. The even better news is that that’s possibly not as crazy as it sounds as we learn this week. What week? Why, alt-week of course.
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FAA may ease ‘reading device’ restriction during takeoff and landing later this year
Author: Randy Miller
By very early 2014, travelers might have the ability to make use of specific electronic devices in airplane mode throughout launch and landing, according to a New York Times report. The publication’s industry sources say that the Federal Aviation Administration might reveal more lenient electronics policies later this year, allowing travelers to use “checking out devices” throughout launch and landing– while it’s not clear which gadgets had certify, cellular phones would continue to be on the ban list. The FAA commissioned an industry team to research the issue of in-flight electronic devices use– the team, which includes representatives from Amazon, Boeing, the CEA, FCC, and others, will announce the outcomes of its research by July 31st.
The concern has support from vital legislators as well. Senator Claire McCaskill is calling the FAA out on its permission of aviators to use iPads in the cockpit and flight attendants to make use of devices of their own, while restricting passengers from reviewing books on e-readers– “A flying copy of ‘War and Peace’ is more unsafe than a Kindle,” she told the Times. And we ‘d have to agree. Until the FAA announces a policy revision, all of us have no option however to reluctantly comply with the ban, and with gadgets like Google Glass on the horizon, updated limitations can not come too quickly.
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Lumio desk lamp takes light reading literally (video)
Author: Jon Mitchell
With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form? Build a lamp, of course. During a recent visit to the City by the Bay, we popped into the TechShop hackerspace and were introduced to Max Gunawan, the designer behind Lumio (not to be confused with a certain smartphone line of similar name). The product, developed in that very space, offers up a cool take on the desktop lamp, fitting it into a wooden, old timey-looking book form. Open it up and the pages fan out into what looks like a paper lantern.
It’s an LED light powered by a lithium ion battery that’ll give you around eight hours on a charge. Due to the foldable nature of the Lumio, the device is portable and can be opened into a number of configurations, to suit your needs. Gunawan is a couple of days away from launching a Kickstarter page for the project, in hopes of getting together $ 60,000. Interested funders will be able to pick one up for around $ 95 — wait for it to come to market, and that price will jump to around $ 125 or $ 135.
After the break, check out a video of Gunawan giving us the lowdown on Lumio.
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Steve Wozniak turned down offer to work on ‘JOBS’ after reading early script: ‘I felt it was crap’
Author: Dave Adams
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hasn’t been mincing words with the new JOBS biopic, which debuted at Sundance Film Celebration last night. We connected to Woz with descriptions of vital scenes we saw and some quotes from his character (played by Josh Gad) to see if he had various other ideas. We’ve heard from others that Woz did not have any contribution to the Kutcher-helmed film, however that isn’t the entire tale.
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Google Play Magazines arrives in UK for light reading ‘on the couch or on the go’
Author: Mark Jeffries
If you’re across the pond and have actually been warming up a spot on your Android tablet or smartphone for Google Play Publications, there’s excellent news– it’s now in the UK Play Shop. You’ll have the ability to get brand-new or back concerns from hundreds of publications, which are offered to purchase separately or in bulk with a full registration. Many significant titles are included in areas like food preparation, travel, sports and photography, and you’ll be able to grab free 14 or 30 day trials to pore over on the go. If that seems like your cup of Earl Grey, hit the source to get it.
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Barnes & Noble drops Nook Simple Touch price to $79 for some unilluminated holiday reading
Author: Tech Blogger
Good information for those planning to give the present that continues refreshing every six pages or so: Barnes & Noble’s hitting its vacation stride by shaving a good $ 20 off the existing price of its last-gen e-reader, down to $ 79. A cost, the business helpfully points out, that comes \* ahem \* “without distracting ads.” The rebate goes into impact tomorrow– the advantage of radiant while reviewing, at the same time, will certainly still cost you $ 119.
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Barnes & Noble releases Nook reading app for Windows 8
Author: Janet Odell
Barnes & Nobile has finally made a Nook app available in the Windows Store. The reading app runs on both Windows 8 and Windows RT devices and supports books, newspapers, comics, and magazines. It’s a little later than we’d hoped for — following Microsoft’s $ 300 million investment in Barnes & Noble’s digital reading business early last month, the pair announced a Windows 8 Nook app for “imminent” release, but it wasn’t available upon the operating system’s launch.
Still, if you’re a Windows 8 user with a head unturned by the bookseller’s latest tablets such as the Nook HD, the arrival of a library with over 3 million items to peruse will come as good news. And, given Microsoft’s vested interest in Barnes & Noble’s success, we’d expect…
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Amazon brings Send to Kindle to Firefox, for all of that reading you’re gonna get to later
Author: JohnnyBells
Not that the world was lacking in ways to deliver material to its Kindle gadgets and applications, but if you still occurred to feel unfulfilled on that front, Amazon’s added Firefox to the listing. The Mozilla-crafted browser is getting an extension that’ll let individuals share posts, news posts and the like to certain users of the Kindle household. Select the web page or text, click the button and go– well, as soon as you have actually finished downloading the extension from the source link below, that is.
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