In this post I will comment about “new inventions” and sort of things that I received lately in my inbox.

#1 Amazon re-invents the book

This is just way too much hyped for me. I guess I’m one of those “old school guys” that still prefer the wooden pencil and those books that can be touched, opened, smelled…
But Oh yeah, I can imagine that this would be great for that obscure toilet undergrounds, or for reading in an airplane where there is not enough room to carry the whole 007 book series. Here Eduardo from alt1040 explains why he thinks Amazon Kindle will not gonna work. (spanish)

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#2 Sony with their “smile detector” camera

The new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200 has face-recognition technology and fires the shutter when all the people in the photo smiles.

Cool, isn’t it ?