I wouldn’t call it a Kindle clone just yet, pending official price announcements. there are differences to the keyboard. The iRiver Story supports txt, PDF and EPUB files as well as DOC, Excel and PowerPoint. It also features a Comic Viewer with Zip file support. It can view in JPG, GIF and BMP. It plays MP3, WMA and OGG music files as well. The lack of WiFi or 3G means you will need your PC to download reading materials. Oh, well, it should also make it very affordable. [via engadget ]

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentIf what’s been missing from your life lately can be quantified as a large widescreen laptop with “unparalleled audio reproduction” and up to a GeForce GT240M graphics card, you’d better listen up, partner. ASUS has just introduced the 16-inch N61 and 17.3-inch N71, both of which will sport up to a Core 2 Quad Q9000 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray drive, and the aforementioned GPU with a gigabyte of dedicated memory.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentAs must-have mobile apps go, Pandora ranks high on the books — with the proliferation of 3G and WiFi, it comes dangerously close to obsoleting the need to carry around your own 8, 16, or 32GB worth of tracks — and another big-ticket platform has now joined the compatibility short list. This time around it’s Android that’s getting hooked up, offering a home screen widget and background playback (we’d expect no less on Android) over whatever type of network connection you’ve got handy.

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras A highly practical medium telephoto lens with superb delineation and portability, the Canon EF 85mm lens produces sharp and clear images at all apertures. Through computer simulations, the lens has been designed to give beautiful background blur, thereby bringing your subject into crisp view. The ring-type ultra-sonic monitor (USM) and fast f/1.8 aperture, meanwhile, helps the subject zip into focus in the viewfinder.

While Sony’s Rolly is about as useful as, well, a tiny dancing robot, at least iida’s Polaris concept doubles as a cellphone plus dock. read more

If what’s been missing from your life lately can be quantified as a large widescreen laptop with “unparalleled audio reproduction” and up to a GeForce GT240M graphics card, you’d better listen up, partner. ASUS has just introduced the 16-inch N61 and 17.3-inch N71, both of which will sport up to a Core 2 Quad Q9000 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray drive, and the aforementioned GPU with a gigabyte of dedicated memory.

The Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) Pixi has been officially announced. Take the Palm Pre in the current state, remove WiFi, remove 80 pixels of vertical resolution, downgrade the camera, add support for Yahoo! and LinkedIn syncing, a preinstalled Facebook application, and badda boom, you’ve got the Pixi. To be more specific about the specifications: 2.63-inch multi-touch screen, 18-bit color, 320×400 resolution GPS 2 megapixel fixed focus camera 3.5 mm headphone jack Bluetooth 2.1 8 GB of storage