Two powerful additions to the lineup 2010 E-Reader: Barnes & Noble? S nook and Intel? S Reader
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Cuddling with the physical possibilities of basic NookIn Nook works like other e-readers that are already on the market, as the Kindle, its successor, the Kindle 2, Kindle DX and Sonya? S Touch Edition, daily edition and the paperback edition of Acrobat Reader. They all use the E-Ink greyscale and have the same basic capabilities, but each has its own bells and whistles. What distinguishes the Nook is the first to market full color e-reader, touch screen, eliminating the need for a keyboard and a third of its front page only, which also include a screen surrounded by a frame with friendly, backward and forward button on every page. The Nook is running Google? S Android OS, and is the first e-reader, an electronic loan offer called LendMe option that the user can borrow food, parts of another user? Sulfur up to two weeks. Early reviews of Nook reported to be disappointed by the device? S laziness and lack of an intuitive user interface, but they do not expect kinks in the software and / or equipment which will be finalized so that Lovera Nook gadget? ? s favorite toy. Sales Nook receive a substantial boost to the e-reader available for customers to visit one of nearly 800 bricks and mortar Barnes & Noble bookstores in the United States and Canada. In addition, the new device allows users to download a half-million titles in Google Book Search Library. This is typical for the advanced ebook reader and after the article “The future of the book Mobile eBook Reading” outside the selection of books on Amazon for the Kindle, Sony Reader also lets you offer the access to a large library of books in the public domain, are not to download (Digital Book Reader). The Nook sells for $ 259. The Reader: point, shoot and listenThe e-Reader, Intel is developing a class apart. Simply called â? Reader, â? the handheld device is a collaboration between dyslexia longstanding – and frustrated – employee, Intel? s Division of Health and experts in the health sector. As the name s is the drive? Concept is simple: label photographs, receipts, written instructions, signs, flip-chart print pages, menus, bills, receipts and other smaller sources, converts printed text into digital text and then immediately converts digital copying Text in language for the reading disabled or blind users, but also an oversized digital display for visually impaired users. The user can wear headphones in public, to avoid feeling conspicuous. The reader, in turn, has Intel? S Capture Station Portable Reader, allowing users to store large amounts of text such as chapters of a book or all books, newspapers, magazines and long documents. The Portable Capture Station is part of what looks like a small suitcase and can be implemented on a desk or table, and locked in place with the player, do you think newspapers and magazine pages and other large documents, the reader? S camera can take pictures then. Although the reader? Price tag of about $ 1,500 s is unaffordable for most people, the federal government makes funds available to countries so they can provide low-cost loans to people with disabilities to purchase assistive technology . In addition, the child Behind Act, provides grants and loans to schools to enable them to assistive technology for their students, they require the purchase of school success left. Intel works with several organizations including the Council for Special Education, National Center for Learning Disabilities and the National Federation of the Blind to drive under pressure when necessary, and the reader has been developed by the International Dyslexia Association as an important lesson Approved tool. The drive is through a limited number of retailers who are listed on Intel available? The website of the company and include CTL, Don Johnston Incorporated, GTSI, Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare.