Portable workbooks with various features and brands are ever-increasingly popping up everyday and designers are still looking to introduce more functional gadgets. Smartbook is a concept design by Freescale who has specially made six prototypes with a wide range of features. These modular mini-notebooks are based on ARM processors and emphasize on enhanced super-long battery life in order to fit in different usage patterns. These compact smartbooks, with brilliant look, durable made and great functionality, will meet the growing need of handy ultra-portables with all the required attributes and ambience. These concepts didn’t get a hardware version yet but are expecting to adapt quite a big part of portable gadget markets.
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The widespread of e-books or electronic books have forced the gadget designers to produce some handy devices that may overcome the hassles and inconveniences associated with reading in a monotonous computer screen. Therefore, e-book readers, one of the most useful creations of recent world, have been introduced by several manufacturers with many different functional features, so that the reader can feel like reading a paper book. Most of the e-book readers feature portability of handhelds along with a higher resolution screen to ensure readers convenience. The average size of a good quality e-book reader is almost as an average size paper book and weighted only a few hundred grams.
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Echo is an innovative nightstand design that appears to challenge gravity by balancing on its one side only. LG Hi-Macs have been used to give the product a smooth graceful curve shape and provided a suitable color palette for any environment. This nightstand offers both public and private storage facility. The open area can be used to store latest magazines, your preferred books and other necessary documents while the upper area can be used as a more private storage. Echo can be installed on the wall simply by mounting a metal bracket and sliding it into the exact position. When installed, the open area of this nightstand faces the user’s bed allowing more convenience and functionality.
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Braille E-book is a conceptual design of a digital and portable e-book reader, developed by Korean industrial designers. This is quite certain that by seeing the design, everyone will admire that this gadget is really necessary for reading e-books. However, e-books of Braille compatible version are not much available in the market because of the higher price. EAP is the mother technology that can develop special patterns on the plastic surface by raising those elements with an electronic signal. This unique technology used by Braille E-Book can translate the content into Braille.
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NeatReceipts is a handy device that works as a mobile scanner and a digital filing system with latest software and proprietary industrial design. This device is able to extract key information automatically from the scanned receipts and can directly export to Excel, TaxCut, Quickbooks and many more. The digital scanner can scan IRS-received digital copies and can make tax preparation on a snap. This device doesn’t require an AC adapter since its USB interface provides the required power to operate it. The extremely portable feature and very much reasonable price, only $192 including free shipping, of this product has made it an unavoidable piece.
NeatReceipts is a mobile scanner with a built-in digital filing system that allows you to scan business cards, receipts and other important documents that can be safely stored and organized as you like. NeatWorks 4.0, the software of this device, can identify and extract the more important information and can automatically organize them for you. The dimensions of this product are 10×14x4 inches with a maximum resolution of 600dpi and weighted 3 pounds only. The approximate speed of this scanner is 3 to 4 receipts per minute and can run in a Microsoft Vista or Windows XP operating system. [Buy it here]
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