See, the problem with car mounts is that they’re usually cumbersome, ugly, hard to plug in, and/or require wires hanging from places if you want to charge the device. I’ve looked at a number of car mounting solutions for my iPhone, and even sketched a few ideas of my own, but nothing seemed to solve all four problems. But using the wireless charging and magnetic grip of a Touchstone charger, remington870_20ga at everythingpre has solved them all for mounting his Palm Pre.

Sure, the big knob on the dashboard is hardly attractive, but I don’t think it’s ugly either. The one visible wire is tucked away. And the Pre practically mounts itself to the magnetic Touchstone. This is one of the best, if not the best, car mounted charging system I’ve ever seen. I may have to give my car mounting plans another look and toss wireless charging solutions in the mix.

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Yes, Google’s dropped their prices and uppped their limits on web storage. Now, for a mere 25¢ per GB, you can store up to 16TB of data on their mighty, mighty servers. Sounds pricey when you look at it in big chunks, like $256 for 1TB, but when I consider the cost in space, equipment and electricity if I tried to set up 16TB at home, it sounds reasonable enough.

One caveat: Google’s paid storage applies specifically to upgrading the free storage of Gmail and Picasa web albums. You could save almost anything there by emailing the file to yourself, but I think it would be most worthwhile if you take a lot of photos and video at high resolution. Regardless, more storage at lower prices is always welcome news.

The 10.75-x 8.25-x 1-inch (HWD) device, at 2.75 pounds. is larger and heavier than most eBook readers, thanks to its dual displays and vastly superior connectivity options. The device’s LCD offers a 1024-by-600-pixel resolution, and features resistive touch, responding to anything from a stylus to your finger for navigation. The 1,200-by-825-pixel electronic ink display is Wacom Penabled, so you’ll need to use the included stylus for navigation and note taking.

Whoa, did I read that last part correctly? Are my eyes deceiving me when I look at that photo? There’s a Wacom Penabled active digitizer under that e-ink screen for pen input? Okay, enTourage, you scared me off earlier with that $490 price tag, but now I’m really interested. Instead of seeing a pricey eReader, I’m seeing a mobile ink blogging machine, and I like the sound of that. You extend that pen input over to the color LCD in a future version, and I will be unable to resist.

BTW, I must say, that name is a real pain to write. With auto-correction or predictive recognition, it would take a ridiculous amount of time to hammer out “enTourage eDGe.”

One other thing I’d add is to avoid ad-hoc connections and hotspots with names that are blatantly alluring. At half the airports I’ve visited, I’ve stumbled across an ad-hoc connection named “Free wireless Internet” or something to that effect. Those aren’t hotspot connections but rather are from another person’s computer, most likely set up with the intent to get into yours. I go so far as to turn off my wifi and not connect at all when I see that. No telling what other data skimming activities that guy is trying to do.

Via Lifehacker

No surprise that Chippy from UMPCPortal was quick to try it on his ultra-mobiles. He’s showing it off on his Gigabyte T1028M convertible. Looks like a good fit on the 600×1028 screen.

Jezlyn of Late to the Party loaded Kindle on her Toshiba M200 almost immediately. The side margins on huge on the 1050×1400 screen. Page width, not full page, would be a better pick for that resolution.

Last but far from least, a tablet user previously unknown to me, Lance at AppScout, has a detailed run-down of the Kindle app running on his Lenovo X200 with multi-touch. He also notes the pages look narrow on his screen at 800×1280 resolution, but pinch zooming fixed that for him.

By comparing the three, we can see a clear need for multiple screen aspect options, which we can perhaps press for in future versions. Thanks guys for sharing your literal perspectives. Anyone else have other aspects/resolutions to share?

Update: Chippy’s also posted video of Kindle on his Viliv X70.

Instructables has the whole breakdown complete with step-by-step instructions and a video demonstration of their homemade interactive multitouch display. The design is based on a paper presented by Jefferson Y. Han at the Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (who has posted a video demo of his own if you’re interested).

Requires a bit too much work for me to put together, not to mention a workshop with tools and stuff (and a projector), plus I have no space for one anyway, but if I wasn’t lazy and had all that stuff (and mechanical skills), I’d build one tomorrow. Sure, I could get one of those new multi-touch displays or desktops instead, but I think their big drafting table-looking display looks really cool. Excellent work, people.

Via Lifehacker