Mint Usability

Just have to post this. Want a ultra-light and easy to use tablet under $200? I know I do. Here’s the deal:

Michael Arrington from CrunchGear decided to start a project to create ultra-portable open source tablet. It would would have one button to power up the device, it would fire straight to Firefox with no desktop environment. Low end speakers, mic and web camera would be integrated, touch screen providing control input. Half a gig of RAM and 4 GB SDD included.

They have already in the talks with manufacturer who says it could be produced for ~200$, all they need is custom software to make it all happen. Want to help? Check the link below and go for it!

TechCrunch

Students(?) of Maryland and Berkeley have whipped up interesting concept of e-book reader: dual displays linked together to form book-like structure. Although the concept of using dual screens as pages of the book is nothing new in the idea apartment, the actual realization in question seems rather interesting. One can flip pages by performing flip gestures by either of the book covers, the displays can also be.. um.. un-linked so that they form their own, individual, papers, which is rather neat when working with multiple documents.

Whitepaper (PDF)

Check the video in full post

New Scientist
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