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The Daily Engadget: Kindle DX Failing Princeton U., Real-Life Transformer

by Tim Stevens on September 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM

The Daily Engadget: Kindle DX Gets Poor Reviews at Princeton, Transforming Robot Blows Minds in Japan
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.

Kindle DX Called "Poor Excuse of an Academic Tool"
When Amazon announced the Kindle DX, the e-reader was given an educational spin, immediately attached to a pilot program with Princeton University. Now, just a few weeks into the school year, the first impressions of the device are making themselves known, and they're not good.

Japanese Robot Performs, Transforms, Amazes
Surely, in cartoons and movies, you've seen robots transform themselves into various shapes. But have you seen a real robot transform from humanoid into a car (or carry its creator on its shoulders)? Click on through and you will.

PSP Go Reviewed
Sony has launched the new version of its PSP, the PSP Go. The universal media disc (UMD) drive has been scrapped, which means that none of the PSP's games work with it, yet the console costs more than the original. And those are just a couple of the factors conspiring against it in this review.

Vodafone Enters U.K. iPhone Game
Yesterday, it was Orange jumping on the European iPhone bandwagon. Today, Vodafone will start selling Apple's handset in the U.K. Surely, T-Mobile in the U.S. can't be far behind.

Dallas Cowboys HD Scoreboard Makes Guinness Book of World Records
If you ever want to see the world's largest high-definition video display, head on down to Dallas and get yourself some Cowboys tickets.

TomTom Car Kit for iPhone Costs $120
If you'd like for your iPhone to give you some better directions than it currently does, the TomTom car kit should be just the ticket -- but at $120 it's hardly an impulse buy.

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