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Enso Pearl: The Only Timer Actually Worth Buying

A smartphone makes a lot of little gadgets obsolete. However, even if you’re attached at the thumbs to your iPhone, you might still find yourself coveting the Enso Pearl, the mother of all timers. Capable of timing 30 different activities concurrently, it’ll cost you a hundred bucks on Amazon. But that’s worth it, especially if…

Commerce Leslie Horn

Amazon Prime Streaming Movie Service Now Available for PS3

Amazon just enabled Prime streaming on PS3, bringing together the best Netflix alternative with the best Xbox alternative. If you’re a Prime subscriber and want to get the all-you-can-watch service working, fire up your Playstation, download the app from the TV/Video services category, and then you can watch as much Arrested Development as you want.…

Commerce Kif Leswing

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

One of the most fascinating stories of the last year has been the evolution of Amazon Prime. In exchange for a recurring fee, you get access to a huge, varied media library: movies, TV shows and books. And yeah, some of that content isn’t all that great, and even more isn’t stuff I would choose,…

Commerce Tim Carmody - Wired

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

It’s a rarer occurrence that spotting bigfoot riding the Loch Ness monster, but Grace Digital Audio has just announced a speaker dock designed specifically for the Kindle Fire. You read that right, the FireDock won’t even acknowledge the iPad’s existence. Instead of the Apple dock connector included on 99.99 percent of the speaker docks available…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski

You Can Buy a Kindle Fire for $140 Today (!)

The Kindle Fire is arguably the best Android tablet you can get—and at 200 bucks, already a killer deal. Now you can buy a (refurbished) Fire for 140. If you want an Android tablet, you should probably do this. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-review-the-ipad-finally-has-serious-compet-5858779 Amazon says the refurbished units are “tested [and] certified to look and work like new.”…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…

Amazon’s pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon’s cloud servers. Parts of the list sort of read like an assortment of half-measures. Digital copies of textbooks laid out for print instead of Apple’s new…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Did Harry Potter Demand Just Take Down the Amazon Kindle Store? (Updated)

Just hours after all of the Harry Potter books were finally made available on the Kinde, the Amazon Kindle Store is experiencing some difficulties. Did fanatical Harry Potter fans rushing to download ebooks cause the outage? It seems plausible. Though you can navigate the Kindle Store, most titles are unavailable for purchase. Interestingly, several of…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc For the First Time In 2012

According to researchers from IHS Screen Digest, 3.4 billion movies will be streamed online this year, more than double the 1.4 billion in 2011. And those are just the legal ones. Not only that, it is projected that only 2.4 billion movies will be watched on disc. So long, physical media… [Bloomberg]

Commerce Brent Rose

Amazon May Have Sold Two Million ‘Kindle Singles’, But Why’s That Impressive?

This morning, the internet is awash with people slapping Amazon on the back, congratulating them for selling two million Kindle Singles—e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than most magazine articles. But is that really a big deal? No, it isn’t. But my problem isn’t with the number they’ve sold. Rather, my problem…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

All Sprint 4G Phones Are a Penny at AmazonWireless This Month

There are few more tender joys than when AmazonWireless opens up its dealz chest and flings free phones into our grubby, yearning mitts. Today, Sprint 4G phones are just a penny through March 26th, with no activation fee until the 19th. What’s that include? A couple of Galaxy S II devices, an EVO 3D, and…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Is Amazon Moving Into Original TV?

Original TV content is proving popular among the internet set right now, with Netflix, Hulu and YouTube all betting big on it. Now, it looks like Amazon might be jumping aboard the bandwagon. What makes us say that? Two pieces of evidence. Let’s take them in turn. First, and most importantly, Joe Lewis—a new executive…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Is the New SkyMall

Passengers on Delta flights with Wi-Fi will now get free access to Amazon. Say goodbye to that kitschy catalog, say hello to the better future of airborne shopping. The Next Web reports that Delta wants to make shopping in the air easier by giving you access to Amazon for free. While it might be easy…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Amazon Product Prices Get Marked Up Like Crazy to Give You Fake Savings

It’s scary how much I trust Amazon. I don’t even question anything—just click, buy and get 2-day shipped for everything. Underwear? Yep. Electronics? Sure. Tweezers? Why the hell not. But what if all those savings you’re supposed to be getting on Amazon were fake? What if Amazon ridiculously marks up a product’s list price by…

Commerce Casey Chan

Amazon Pulls 5,000 eBooks From the Kindle Store

Almost 5,000 eBooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group’s contract with the online seller. The move is a result of Amazon’s demand for upfront payment from publishers, required to host their books on the store. [Paid Content]

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

The New 8GB Nook Tablet Is Official and Will Cost $199

Rumors circulated yesterday that a cheaper Nook Tablet was on its way, and now it’s official. Barnes & Noble is launching an 8GB version of its tablet, to go on sale for $199. Yes, that does make it a direct Kindle Fire competitor. https://gizmodo.com/new-8gb-nook-tablet-launching-february-22nd-5886468 It really is identical to the existing Nook Tablet, expect for…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

New 8GB Nook Tablet Launching February 22nd?

According to leaked documents seen by The Verge, Barnes & Noble is launching an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet this week. That drop in capacity means one thing: it’s planning to match, or undercut, the Kindle Fire. The news comes from a leaked Walmart document. From The Verge: “All we know for sure is…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

You Can Buy Ikea Products on Amazon

We don’t know how long this has been going on or if it’s new but we’ve never heard about it so HOLY CRAP you can buy Ikea products on Amazon right now! That’s right, you can get Ikea’s affordable furniture with the one click convenience of Amazon. No more taking a trip to some far…

Commerce Casey Chan

The Kindle Touch Can Recognize Your Handwriting

If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it’s time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle handwriting recognition. Puzzle-game startup Puzzazz is demonstrating software that lets users fill in text boxes by writing naturally on the screen with their finger,…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

What on Earth Is This?

No, this isn’t a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested twenty minutes ago. It’s actually science’s newest means of mapping one of the Earth’s wildest and most remote regions. Mapping the Amazonian Rainforest is a daunting endeavor given the region’s huge expanse, lack of development, and…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

You can run around shooting people or build a railroad. Are you the soldier or the builder? These are the hard questions you have answer in the world of apps. No wait, you can be both because the games are on sale. Hooray for capitalism! But if shooting and building aren’t your thing, you can…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Enso Pearl: The Only Timer Actually Worth Buying

Amazon Prime Streaming Movie Service Now Available for PS3

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

You Can Buy a Kindle Fire for $140 Today (!)

Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…

Did Harry Potter Demand Just Take Down the Amazon Kindle Store? (Updated)

More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc For the First Time In 2012

Amazon May Have Sold Two Million ‘Kindle Singles’, But Why’s That Impressive?

All Sprint 4G Phones Are a Penny at AmazonWireless This Month

Is Amazon Moving Into Original TV?

Amazon Is the New SkyMall

Amazon Product Prices Get Marked Up Like Crazy to Give You Fake Savings

Amazon Pulls 5,000 eBooks From the Kindle Store

The New 8GB Nook Tablet Is Official and Will Cost $199

New 8GB Nook Tablet Launching February 22nd?

You Can Buy Ikea Products on Amazon

The Kindle Touch Can Recognize Your Handwriting

What on Earth Is This?

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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