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MEEP! A Tablet Designed Just for Kids

tech — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:11:10 +0000

Oregon Scientific, a leading designer and worldwide marketer of personal electronics, announced its entry into a hot new category: kid’s tablets. Leaving cartridge-based devices behind in the dust, the new Wi-Fi enabled MEEP! tablet runs on the Android operating system and offers music, movies, e-books, and apps from leading developers – all on a large, 7-inch color touch screen! The MEEP! tablet will be unveiled for the first time at the Toy Industry Association’s (TIA) 109th American International Toy Fair 2012.

Sharing a mobile device is a tough feat, especially for parents, when there is a risk it could be dropped, broken, scratched or rendered useless. The MEEP! tablet is an affordable fix for a tech –hungry generation of kids, featuring a tough design and an enhanced rubber silicon sleeve for added protection.

Geared for children age 6 and up, the MEEP! tablet is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing access to a sea of web content that can be downloaded to its internal memory or SD card and viewed from any angle courtesy of the tablet’s internal G-Sensor. All websites and content can be monitored through intuitive parental controls that are adjusted remotely on any computer or mobile device with a browser and an Internet connection.

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GameStop Now Selling iPods Starting at $39.99

tech — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:16:27 +0000

iPods Starting @ $39.99

Now at GameStop, you can purchase GameStop premium refurbished iPod® and iPhone®.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
GameStop is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. iPod touch®, iPhone®, and iPad® devices available through GameStop stores and Web sites are refurbished by GameStop. iPod touch®, iPhone®, and iPad® (including images thereof) are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

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Daily Deals :: Apple iBook Notebook (61% off)

tech — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:47:19 +0000

Apple iBook Notebook

Retail Price: ~~$499.00~~
You Save: $304.35 (61%)
Sales Price: ~~$229.00~~
Additional Discount: $34.35
Your Low Price: $194.65

Product Includes

Computer, battery, AC adapter and power cord, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and iLife installed on hard drive. Paper manuals not included. Electronic versions are available online.

Apple iLife is a suite of applications

iPhoto for managing and enhancing your digital images

iMovie for creating digital films

iDVD for burning your DVDs and CDs

GarageBand to create your own musical compositions

iWeb for building your own website

Specs:

Screen Size - 12 Inch
Speed - 1Ghz to 1.49Ghz
Introduced - 2005
Processor - G4

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VTech Announces Tablet For Kids :: InnoTab

tech — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0000

Today VTech^® released the InnoTab™, a multi-function educational tablet for children. InnoTab is now available at major retail and toy stores and VTechKids. This innovative learning app tablet brings interactive and animated reading, educational gaming, creative activities, and a rich collection of applications to children ages 4-9.

InnoTab comes fully loaded out of the box with a full suite of applications including an interactive, animated e-book, motion games, creative activities, MP3 music player, photo viewer, video player, alarm clock, calculator, calendar and an address book.

InnoTab features a 5“ brilliant color touch screen LCD, a tilt-sensor for motion game control, USB interface, SD card slot for memory expansion, along with a stylus and a headphone jack. All of these are housed in a sleek, durable and compact design for easy portability.

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InnoTab’s key features include:

InnoTab - Blue

Interactive, Animated E-books
Stories come to life on InnoTab through interactive, animated e-books that offer story narration, character voices, animation, vivid graphics, sounds and music. Kids will learn and enjoy reading comprehension, vocabulary, phonics, word building, and interact with animated characters. As they read, kids will watch the words highlight and can touch individual words to hear them pronounced. Each e-book comes with a story dictionary offering word definitions that are easy for kids to comprehend and helps with the context of the story

Motion Learning Games
Using InnoTab’s touch screen and tilt-sensor, kids can have hours of fun with learning games. They can control how they play, and develop the skills of using touch applications including tap, flick, drag-and-drop so they can have the same technology and fun as parents do with their touch-screen devices. Using the tilt-sensor they can control the onscreen fun by turning, tilting and moving the tablet in different directions to manipulate the image on-screen.

Creative Activities
InnoTab lets kids bring out their creative side with an Art Studio offering painting, coloring and drawing applications they can use with their fingers or the included stylus. After a picture is painted, kids can tilt the InnoTab to see their masterpiece come to life in 3D with Color and Pop. The Art Studio also includes photo editing capabilities and special effects that allow kids to explore their creative power with images transferred from a KidiZoom^® camera (sold separately) or images from their home computer.

InnoTab - Pink

Feature-Rich Software Cartridges
InnoTab offers full-feature cartridges providing interactive e-books, learning games and creative activities. Kids can play and learn with their favorite characters, such as Toy Story, Dora the Explorer and Disney Princesses. This expanding library of cartridges starts with nine titles at launch, including:

Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2
Disney Fairies
Disney Princess
Dora the Explorer
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The Penguins of Madagascar
Scooby-Doo
SpongeBob Squarepants
Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story

Applications
Kids can maintain their multimedia lives with InnoTab’s integrated MP3 player to listen to their favorite songs, as well as view videos with the Video Player. Other integrated applications include Photo Viewer, Calculator, Calendar, Notepad, Clock, and Friends Address Book.

InnTab Pink Tablet	InnTab Blue Tablet	InnTab Software

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New TV Series :: Da Vinci’s Demons – Wouldn’t A Star Trek Crossover Be Nice?

tech — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:47:57 +0000

Starz Entertainment has green-lit a new original adventure series titled “Da Vinci’s Demons,” developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. This is the first project to enter production under the multi-year agreement Starz signed with BBC Worldwide Productions earlier this summer. The series was jointly announced today by Starz Media Managing Director, Carmi Zlotnik and BBC Worldwide Productions Head, Jane Tranter.

Written by David S. Goyer, co-writer of blockbuster and critically-acclaimed films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and writer of the highly anticipated Man of Steel, the eight-episode series is scheduled to begin production in early-2012.

“Da Vinci’s Demons” is David Goyer’s historical fantasy, following the “untold” story of the world’s greatest genius during his raucous youth in Renaissance Florence. Brash and brilliant, the twenty five-year old da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

Goyer writes, “Da Vinci was the original Renaissance man — a near-mythic figure that has world-wide appeal. After working with characters like Batman and Superman, it made a strange kind of sense for me to dive into the facts and legends swirling around his origins. This will be a show about secret histories, genius, madness, and all things profane. And I’m particularly excited that I get to do it on premium cable, where the story can be as dark and challenging and irreverent as it deserves to be. Starz and BBC Worldwide Productions have been nothing but supportive.”

“Da Vinci’s Demons” expected to air the worldwide broadcast premiere in 2013.

Star Trek and Da Vinci

Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek has always given mention to Leonardo Da Vinci:

The above video is the year 2269 (TOS: Requiem for Methuselah) where Kirk meets an immortal character named flint claimed that Leonardo was one of his identities.
Starbase 4 possessed a Class F shuttlecraft named the da Vinci. (TOS: “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” remastered)
Blue Horizon’s Da Vinci Falls are named after him. (DS9: “Second Sight”)
A holographic simulation of Leonardo was among the historical personality profiles studied by The Doctor, in 2373, during his attempt to expand his personality subroutines. By 2377, The Doctor was declaring himself an expert on da Vinci amongst other Alpha Quadrant artists. (VOY: “Darkling”, “Flesh and Blood”)
Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager enjoyed visiting Leonardo on the holodeck. He became an adviser to her, along with providing a haven during times of stress. Leonardo and Janeway unsuccessfully attempted to fly in a glider they constructed which sent them crashing into a river. This led to Leonardo having a crisis of purpose and leaving many of his works unfinished.
Once when Voyager was attacked by pirates who used a high-energy transporter beam to steal items of technological value, Leonardo’s program was also stolen. He was used by the leader of the pirates, Tau, to develop new weapons which Tau sold to the highest bidder. Janeway and Tuvok tracked him and the rest of the stolen goods to a province controlled by Tau. He believed that he was in America and told Janeway that his patron was prince of this land. Leonardo was enjoying his new adventure because of the new inventions he was creating, but agreed to return to “Europe” when reminded by Janeway that his presence there is important and that she needs his help. Tau captured Janeway and drew a weapon on her. Leonardo came to her defense and knocked out Tau, then he and Janeway escaped successfully flying his glider through the air escaping untilVoyager got in range and beamed them and the glider into Cargo Bay 1 before jumping to warp. (VOY: “Scorpion”, “The Raven”, “Scientific Method”, “Concerning Flight”, “The Omega Directive”.
In her later years as captain of the USS Voyager, Janeway kept a copy of Leonardo’s famous self-portrait in red chalk in her ready room. (VOY: “Virtuoso”, “The Haunting of Deck Twelve”, “Unimatrix Zero”, “Endgame”)
According to Captain Janeway James T. Kirk claimed to have met da Vinci. (VOY: “Concerning Flight”) This simultaneously implies a reference to Flint and that James Kirk disregarded Flint’s request never to tell the Federation about his existence. (TOS: “Requiem for Methuselah”)
In Pocket Books’ series of Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers novels, the hero starship USS da Vinci was named for Leonardo.

Da Vinci’s Demons & Science Fiction

It would be wonderful to have at least one episode with a Star Trek reference; better yet, have a Star Trek reference in every episode.

It would automatically bring in the sci-fi loyal viewers
Florentine court records of 1476 show that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy, and acquitted. Gay viewers
- Idea: Since Da Vinci was a gay man and nothing would please me more than a “Captain Jack Harkness” meets Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome, where Raphael and Michelangelo were both active at the time (1513 to 1516). Artist viewers
- Note: In 2367, Doctor Noonian Soong described his need to create Data as being no different to Michelangelo’s need to creature sculptures from blocks of marble. (TNG: “Brothers”)
- Note: The USS Raphael was a Federation construction vessel starship in Starfleet service in the 24th century. This ship was in active service around the 2370s decade.

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