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The Daily Engadget: Microsoft's 'Courier' Tablet, Mac Portable Turns 20

by Tim Stevens on September 23, 2009 at 10:24 AM


Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.

Microsoft Courier: the Ultimate Tablet?
With touchscreens becoming all the more common in gadgets, we're expecting some game-changers to appear in the next few years. One of those could be Microsoft's Courier, a notepad-looking device that offers dual touchscreens and folds in the middle like a book.

Mac Portable Dissected for 20th Anniversary
It's been twenty years since Apple released its first portable computer -- a $6,500 beast that sported 1 megabyte of memory and a whopping 40 megabytes of storage (about enough for six MP3s). In honor of the anniversary, one collector beautifully photographed a pristine example -- and then ripped the thing to shreds.

Google Adds Support for Push Gmail
With Google Sync, googling smartphone users have been able to use Google's helpful Contacts and Calendar services, but haven't had access to the one service everybody really wants: Gmail. Google has finally added that feature to Sync, but only in its iPhone and Windows Mobile versions.

Best Buy and Verizon Launch e-Reader
Big news for e-readers today, with Verizon and Best Buy partnering to bring the iRex, a 3-G, touchscreen tablet-type reader into the retailer's stores. The best part is (besides HSDPA data capability for traveling abroad), the device is aiming to hit stores next month.

BMW and Mercedes Getting Atom-Powered In-Car Systems
With its introduction to smartphones, Intel's Atom has taken the ultra-portable, ultra-compact world by storm. Now, it's being applied to things even more portable, although much less compact: German luxury cars.

Wall-E Checks E-Mail, Dances, Is Made of Paper
Some robots are cute, and some are helpful, but few offer a better combination of the two than Wall-E. This version is slightly low-rent -- made of paper -- but that doesn't stop him from doing an adorable little dance whenever an e-mail is received.

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