Nook Color Unveiled by Barnes and Noble

Nook in color. It has finally happened. At one of its Manhattan stores today, Barnes & Noble introduced Nook Color, a $249 e-reading tablet that delivers books, magazines, newspapers and children's books in color. The sub-one pound, half-inch thick Android-based device has a 7-inch touchscreeen.
Barnes & Noble is taking orders now. The Nook Color ships on November 19. It will be available in Best Buy, Walmart, BAM (Books A Million) and of course Barnes & Noble's own stores. Noble will continue to sell its existing black-and-white Nook devices too.
 Noble CEO William Lynch says that the company is not thinking about lowering the price any time soon, regardless of what competitors such as Amazon and Apple do. "Reading in brilliant color is the killer app," he says.
More than two million book titles will be available for the device, most for $9.99 or less and obviously not all in color. Nook Newsstand will have over 100 titles at launch, including magazines from Conde Nast and Hearst and newspapers such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY. Single copy and subscriptions will be available.
The company says you can go from finding a book to reading it in under 12 seconds.
The first color Nook will be Wi-Fi only, though Lynch says a 3G device could happen. The device has 8 gigabytes of internal memory, enough to hold about 6,000 books. Barnes & Noble says the battery will last about 8 hours.
Also on hand is a browser (no support for Adobe Flash), music player and such apps as Pandora streaming Internet radio. You can also play games (crosswords, chess, etc.).
The biggest applause at the launch event came when Barnes & Noble showcased a read out loud feature for kid's books. This will be a great guide for the young-learning reader.
Nook color is a welcome addition to the portable hand-held device market.

Theo


The light, easy and technological touch that helps you to control your home.

Theo has combined ease of use with the most advanced technology so that you can watch over your home just by lightly touching the information on your screen.
Blucasa has launched an innovative range of touch panels, dedicated to the control of Konnex systems. The touch panels are able to display graphics settings that allow you to personalize the range of options and features you wish.
According to them "We use high end components and materials in order to guarantee the best quality and reliability of our products. We chose to reduce energy waste as much as possible so that our products consume less than 10 Watt (less than a low-consumption small lamp)".
The Theo line of products can integrate the surveillance television cameras system and video entry phones.All Blucasa devices are shipped with Ethernetinterfaces. You can also add to your system a GPRS modem module in order to control your home automation from a mobile phone.
Blucasa Touch Panels are available in 2 models, different only in size. Theo 12 has a 12" size with a graphic resolution of 800x600 pixel, while Theo 7 is a 16:9 model, with a 7" size and a 480x234 pixel graphic resolution.

BlinQ QWC014 Wine Chiller 

Chilled wine and un-chilled wine do not give the same thrill. You no longer need a refrigerated wine cellar to get the right chill for the perfect diner. A simple device from BlinQ is changing all this. It takes a matter of seven minutes to turn a wine bottle from un-chilled to adequately chilled.

To use the device all you have to do is place 3 pre-frozen chill cells into your BlinQ QWC014 Wine Chiller, insert a bottle of wine and then pour in some water. Set the timer and in less than 7 minutes, you'll have a cold bottle of wine.For a device that costs $69.99 (street price) and $24.99 (on Tigerdirect.com)