Alaska Airlines ditches paper flight manuals for iPads

Alaska Airlines Pilots Go Lean and Green With iPads

First major domestic airline to use iPads to replace flight manuals

SEATTLE, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of an ongoing effort to use technology to enhance flight safety, improve efficiency and protect the environment, Alaska Airlines is issuing iPad tablet computers to its pilots. The 1 1/2-pound iPads replace up to 25 pounds of paper flight manuals that pilots are required to carry when they fly.

Kogeto Dot

Snap dot onto your iPhone 4 and step into the future. In an instant you can capture fully immersive 360-degree videos and share them with friends and family - all in a package that slips easily into you pocket. The first time you use Dot, you won't believe what your phone is capable of.

iSTUCK PHONE STAND

Having bubble gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe is pretty annoying - but if it's stick to the bottom of your iPhone or iPad it's pretty cool!  Our iStuck will hold your personal communicator at just the right angle for viewing a video without any sticky mess!

Twin suction cups attach to most devices with smooth hard surfaces.

Sugar-free and recommended by five out of five dentists surveyed!

The Need For Budget Tablets

When Apple announced the iPad in January 2009, the entry price for the tablet market was set at $499. I saw (and still see) the web tablet as the successor to the netbook, so I assumed that it would go down over time, and we would eventually see tablets settle in the $350-400 range that netbooks sold for in their brief period of atomic glory (see what I did there?) ASUS and Acer are pushing that agenda for the moment, with the $399 Eee Transformer and the $449 Iconia A500. It’ll take

HTC showing off EVO 3D with gold camera ring, other small design changes

It's not uncommon for different regional/carrier versions of the same device to sport some unique cosmetic details, but since the HTC EVO 4G is exclusive to the US, we haven't had a chance to see any OEM variants.

HTC EVO 3D bootloader locked down

Based on the number of tips that flooded my inbox this morning, I'd say that most of you already know this (my time zone in Hawaii puts me 6 hours behind the East Coast, so I've been sleeping while you've all been cursing HTC) but just in case you don't, Android Police has confirmed—presumably by examing the leaked RUU—that the HTC EVO 3D's bootloader, recovery, and kernel images are all cryptographically signed.

What does this mean for all of your hopes and dreams of getting your new phone rooted and loaded up with a custom ROM that hasn't been created yet?

Ecopad Tablet Concept: Let Your Fingers Do the Charging

 It’s true that most tablets do need to get charged up regularly, so it would be nice to come up with a way to reduce the need for recharging. The Ecopad concept was given a special award in Fujitsu and designboom’s ‘A Life with Future Computing‘ design competition for its innovative approach to juicing up.

Sharp's flagship Android phones will come to US

A series of Android phones from TV maker Sharp will be making their way to the US.
That is the big news from the company today as it announced it will be bringing its line of Aquos-branded smartphones to markets outside of Japan, where it launched the phones earlier this year.

Nexus S 4G from Google and Samsung with Android 2.3 for a Pure Google Experience

The highly anticipated Nexus S™ 4G1 from Google™ goes on sale in all Sprint channels, including www.sprint.com, on Sunday, May 8, for $199.99 (plus tax) with a new line or eligible upgrade. Extending the company’s 4G device leadership yet again, it is the fourth 4G phone available and 20th 4G device announced from Sprint.

Samsung Launches GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 and 5.0: Smart Mobile Entertainment

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of Smart Mobile Devices, today launched GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 and a fresh addition to its smart player portfolio, the GALAXY S WiFi 5.0.
Each featuring 4” and 5” screen-sizes and delivering the powerful application experiences as the original GALAXY S, the two versions give users an unrivalled entertainment experience through a clear display, a swift 1GHz processor and the Android™ 2.2 “Froyo” platform. The

Samsung Electronics and Nouvoyance Demonstrate 10.1-inch, 300dpi WQXGA PenTile RGBW Prototype Display for Tablet Market

At the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium (LA Convention Center, Booth 707) May 17-19, Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the industry’s first 10.1-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) format PenTile™ RGBW tablet display, an ultra-high resolution, liquid crystal display (LCD). The prototype demonstration marks the first time this resolution has been available for the tablet market in the popular – 10.1-inch –
format, rivaling the highest resolution smartphone displays now on the market. Samsung expects to have commercial availability of this technology for tablet applications later this year.

Bento Book

While this scenario has been explored before, it’s the first time that I’ve seen something that might actually work well. The laptop becomes a dock for your smartphone and your tablet, allowing you to seamlessly use different devices without having to sync them. The Bento Book concept goes even further. Without the mobile devices, it’s just a dock. It actually needs the mobile devices to actually become a laptop.

Ringbow

When touchscreen tablets were introduced to the world, people had to get used to a totally new method of computing, with the use of different multi-touch gestures to recreate certain functionalities that were normally done by a mouse and/or keyboard. While some functions were easier to perform with gestures, people still pined for the mouse as an additional input device.