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Jeffrey takes a look at NEC's cool dual screen Android tablet. Each touch screen is 7" and while there are many uses, one target market is education. One screen can be used to show video or diagrams with the accompanying text on the other. It's powered by a 1 GHz ARM Cortex CPU rather than the more usual Atom processors.
Tom Newman takes a took a look at the Nexus S at the Samsung Booth. The Nexus S runs on Gingerbread 2.3 which is the latest Android operating system available for the public. It has a very fast and clean interface. It is a GSM device and supports NFC, (Near Field Communication) It is light at 129g and has a
Anand Iyer and Chris Bergstrom of Welldoc, Inc. (www.welldocinc.com) present Welldoc Coaching Software for phones that helps patients with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes report their ongoing self-monitoring statistics and other relevant data to their physicians, thus helping the patient remain in compliance to their medical treatment program with an eye towards better patient outcomes. Interview by Jeffrey Powers
Bloomworlds is an online Android app store for parents to find apps that are appropriate for their children. The site is still being developed and they are looking for both developers and parents to help. The parents will review each application and then write testimonial on the app. Along with having actual parents do reviews they will also be checking
Aaron Cooper of Worth Avenue Group (my.worthavegroup.com) talks about the insurance coverage they provide for iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, Cell Phones, e-readers, televisions, laptops, tablets and other high-value electronic devices. With so many high-value portable and other electronics devices, many with glass touch screens screens, insuring these devices can make sense. Their computer insurance even covers virus removal. They require
Jonathan Conelias of iDevices, Inc. (www.idevicesinc.com) presents the iGrill Bluetooth-enabled wireless temperature probe device that is designed to synch up with an iPod, iPhone or iPad and remotely display temperatures of cooking meats. It is able to monitor two temperatures at once and runs on four "AA" batteries. The iOS application features alarms that can be set to notify the
Outlier Inc. announced a new website, Swagg.com. It's also available as an Android and iPhone app. It's based on market research done by Outlier with a goal of making the shopping experience more convenient. It allows shoppers to give a gift card in a unique manner - with a bow that unwraps (virtually speaking) and soon can include a personalized