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  Track Your Airline Luggage on Your Smartphone

  242 readers Using the hand-sized Trakdot Luggage tracker (pictured above), travelers can soon monitor their luggage as it travels the world by airplane.  It will be available in March for $49.95 . Activation costs $8.99 and there is an annual service fee of $12.99. The  air transport communications and information technology company SITA estimates that 26 million bags get lost

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  O King Portable Book Scanner

  4369 readersI’ve seen portable scanners before, but never one so basic in form. The O King book scanner takes portability to a new high. It comes with an optional plastic back plate, but the scanner can be used without it. The scanner itself folds in half, a...

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  Amazon tablet could be the Sears Catalog of the 21st century

  1893 readersWhile reading various articles today about the forthcoming Amazon tablet, it struck me that of all the giant media companies entering this space, only Amazon routinely and successfully sells phsyical goods across a vast array of product categories—not just consumer electronics or digital media, but houseware, printed books, clothing, tools, toys, lamps, those little pet

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  Fold-out document scanner heralds portable-scanning future

  3825 readersDead-tree scanning just got significantly smaller. Gadget Lab and eBookNewser, among others, are carrying reports on the O-King, a new pocket-portable scanning device. It’s only 1.6 megapixels and has to have a USB power source to work, but its small size and $120 price tag might make it a great companion to a laptop for

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  Kindle 4 uses free AT&T wifi

  1073 readers I just ordered a low end Kindle 4, for delivery tomorrow, because I wanted to see how these “special offers” work. I also wanted a spare, small unit to carry around on those times where electronics are subject to the chance of breakage. It’s interesting that Amazon’s new pricing turns this into a purely impulse

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  We All Scream For Ice Screen, 26 Inch Android-Based Smart TV

  372 readersFor some reason, the Ice Screen is dubbed a mobile entertainment product, although it doesn’t have a battery or anything making it seem… portable. However, the device is thin and smart enough to be considered an oversized tablet, only that it requires an AC outlet to operate. It does seem fairly easy to carry around,

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  Defying Digital, Airport and Transit Bookstores Gain Ground at Home and Abroad

  1168 readersUS-based Hudson Group and Sweden’s Pocket Shop are two airport and transit bookstore brands expanding despite the growing popularity of e-books. By Amanda DeMarco Hudson Booksellers: A Reason to Buy Print Books In some ways, airport bookstores are sales utopias: high-traffic locations where people have time to browse. But they’re not sheltered from sales shifting to digital; heavy

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  Prison Guard Accused Of Accepting iPad Bribe

  765 readersLaw enforcement in California keep making headlines with their relationships to iPads. Yesterday, we heard a story about how an iPad owner and police used an app to locate some stolen Christmas gifts. Now we hear that a California prison guard has been accused of accepting an iPad as a bribe for favors given to inmates.

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  Airport security X-rays can apparently damage e-ink Kindles

  2572 readersCan airport X-ray machines harm your Kindle? Some e-ink Kindle owners have discovered their e-readers stopped working after passing them through airport security X-ray machines. The culprit is thought to be not the radiation from the X-rays themselves, but the static electricity that can build up from the circulating rubber conveyor belt and could be

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  Custom made bags and covers for all your ereaders and tablets

  3555 readersWaterField Designs, a San Francisco based company offer a wide range of covers and carry bags for all manner of portable electronic devices. They offer a wide range of ready made covers for all manner of portable devices, from mobile phones through to Tablets, and should your particular device not happen to be in their program