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What’s a company like Corsair to do to follow up its Extreme Series X32, X64 and X128 SSDs ? A new Extreme Series X256 model for starters. Joining the company’s equally spacious P256 and S256 SSD drives, this one offers some of the fastest read speeds yet with promised rates up to 240MB/s, along with write speeds up 170MB/s, 64MB of cache memory (or half that of the P256), and the one-two punch of Indilinx’s Barefoot controller and Samsung’s MLC NAND flash memory at the heart of the drive

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Corsair keeps on rolling with Extreme Series X256 SSD

During an event at the main branch of the New York Public Library this morning, Sony unveiled the newest version of its eBook Reader, the Daily Edition (held above by Sony’s Steve Haber), which will have built-in free wireless capability via AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband network. The new Reader, to sell for $399, will be available by December, just in time for the holidays, at SonyStyle stores and via sonystyle.com

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Sony Announces Reader Daily Edition: 3G Wireless, Plus Free Library Content

When you open a book, you see two facing pages at once. Sony has duplicated this real-world reading experience with the introduction today of its third e-reader, the Reader Daily Edition, available this December for $400. Equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen and 3G wireless connectivity (finally) via AT&T to download books directly to the device, you can read a single page in regular portrait mode, or see two pages across in landcape mode.

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Sony Daily Edition Reader lets you read in widescreen

It flew under the radar under a quiet leak this morning , but Sony’s just announced the Reader Daily Edition, as well as updated Mac-compatible eBook Library 3.0 software and a new library content service. The Reader Daily Edition has a seven-inch touchscreen as well as a AT&T 3G modem, enabling it to pull content wirelessly from Sony’s eBook store — it’ll launch in December for $400, and the 3G access will be free. We’re a little more geeked about the library finder service, which enables you to register for a “library card” and then check out books for 29 days, after which they’ll expire

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Sony announces Reader Daily Edition, free library ebook checkouts

We’re huddled up in an obscure corner of the New York Public Library, waiting for Sony to drop its new Reader news on us. There are numerous publishing people here, and for our money we’d say a wireless-equipped, “daily” news sort of device is about to descend upon us, but we’ll find out for sure when Sony gets on the makeshift stage and tells all. 10:30AM: The President and CEO of the New York Public Library is up front, and he says the digital content of the NYPL will be available to Sony Readers for free.

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Sony’s ‘Daily Edition’ Reader launch event

We know you’ve been saving up your Rubles for the new LG BL40 Chocolate Touch , but in the meantime we thought we’d hep you to this pretty extensive review they conducted over at Mobile Review . And sure, at first blush this thing seems to be extremely noteworthy: that 21:9 display, the S-Class UI, the haughty demeanor — what’s not to love? The real question, of course, isn’t how attractive the handset is, but how will it fare in the real world?

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LG BL40 Chocolate Touch reviewed, deemed ‘pretty OK’

If the Storm 2 seriously uses newfangled piezoelectrics to provide localized tactile response on its display — something the original Storm lacked with just a single clicky button mounted underneath the screen’s center point — then how come we’re coming to find out we’ve got four buttons mounted near the corners this time around? At this point, this picture posted of the Storm 2′s sensitive innards probably raises more questions than it answers — we’re clearly looking at four buttons here, which as CrackBerry says would facilitate the “multi-press” necessary to engage key modifiers like Alt just as you would on a regular keyboard.

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BlackBerry Storm 2′s voodoo-powered screen torn apart, raises more questions

The leading model of Sony’s “upper entry level” trifecta of Alpha-branded shooters, the 14.2 megapixel DSLR-A380, has been hitting test benches lately and we’ve rounded up the results for your perusal. The consensus appears to be that Sony has focused on bringing fans of compact cams up to the big time, with its uniquely responsive Live View and straightforward usability. Alas, ease of use is not the only thing brought up from the little leagues, with comparatively poor output at ISO 400 and above, lack of any video recording (as with the Canon EOS 500D and Nikon D5000 , its nearest competitors) and unsatisfying viewfinder ergonomics

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Sony Alpha 380 gets lukewarm reviews, must be someone’s perfect bowl of porridge

It was but a few months ago that we were lusting after a svelte little fanless Snapdragon Eee PC running Android and being demo’d at Computex. Now, ASUS is letting us all down softly, saying that project has been put on the shelf — presumably to make room for another string of cookie-cutter netbooks. CEO Jerry Shen says “I don’t see a clear market for smartbooks,” which is true enough, but we’re guessing the big laptop players didn’t see a clear market for netbooks at first, either

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ASUS puts Snapdragon smartbook on hold, breaks hearts of Androids everywhere

We’ve been seeing Sony’s S Series Walkman around the town since July, and Sony’s finally seen fit to make it official, also introducing the slightly lower-rent E Series. Specs on the former are completely in-line with expectations, including a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD, FM tuning and recording, along with support for a suite of formats including MP3, protected WMA, AAC, H.264, and WMV

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Sony S and E Series Walkman players start officially rocking the tunes next month

Oh come men, this could be awesome for the little girls in your life; so give it a fair chance and read on! Yea tweens can get intimidated by technology, they do find it cute that Big Daddies like Sony offer them color options like hot pinks and reds, so when a concept like Samsung Blossom DPS Camera comes up, it’s like butterfly-times again! Simple to operate and with uncomplicated features, this camera is cute-a-vicious for one feature alone, the power to photoshop the pics via the cam. Here are the highlights: Full touchscreen navigation with a simple menu and no complex buttons to use. There is a touchup function that allows the user to use software like Adobe Photoshop to tweak pics.

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Typical Girlie Camera

Even though solid tumors often look like the healthy tissue they’re invading, they almost always present as fibrous densities, hence surgeons use their fingers to feel for a difference in stiffness during extraction. Canadian researchers from the University of Western Ontario and Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics at the London Health Sciences Center have adapted a robot to identify the change in stiffness as it traverses a surface, hoping to develop this technology for cancer detection or diagnosis.

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Tactile Sensing Robot Does Hands-On Detection of Tumors

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory have developed a robotic arm and sensor system that is capable of performing some amazing sleight of hand tricks. Using a high speed tracking camera and tactile sensors on the fingers, the robot does millisecond bouncing of ping pong balls, pen spinning, and even throwing and re-grabbing a mobile phone

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Japanese Robotic System Shows Off Impressively Fast Movement and Dexterity

We’re willing to bet Wacom’s nextbeat NXT-1000 would feel right at home in a mockup spacecraft console (think Starfleet, not NASA), but more importantly, if you’re one of those “creative DJs” who simply must employ this alongside the rest of your audio equipment, it’s gearing up to put moves on you the likes of which have never been seen before. Launch dates are September 18th in Japan for 169,800 ($1,796) and September 25th for Europe, price probably comparable

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Wacom’s nextbeat NXT-1000 hits the Japanese and European club scenes in September

• Apple’s much-talked-about but still unconfirmed tablet computer is demanding all of Steve Jobs’s time , according to the Wall Street Journal citing plenty of sources “familiar with the matter”. The report contains a couple of interesting details, however, including that “Jobs killed the project twice in recent years, the first time because the battery life was too short, and the second time because there was insufficient memory”. • Remember all that fuss about age ratings on games ?

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Breakfast briefing: Jobs nixed tablet twice, while UK messed up censorship rules

There isn’t a lot to go by here, but if the Wall Street Journal’s sources are to believed, recently-returned Apple CEO Steve Jobs is currently focusing the vast majority of his attention on the oft rumored tablet device, micromanaging every detail much in the way he did with the iPhone. The report also says that the tablet project has been twice killed by Jobs in recent years — first time because of bad battery life, which we get, and second because of insufficient memory, which seems a little less believable. Interestingly and uncharacteristically, Jobs took it upon himself to respond, saying via email, “much of your information is incorrect.” If Apple really is ramping up to unveiling a tablet, the first of its kind for the company, we have no doubt Jobs would be personally watching over every minute detail of it — what we really want to know is when we might see something materialize, and that’s still very much a mystery.

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WSJ: Steve Jobs ‘pouring almost all of his attention’ into an Apple tablet

Doug Dennerline spent ten years at Cisco and was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Collaboration Software Group, making him the man in charge of WebEx and other popular offerings. He was also the one spearheading a rumored move by Cisco to make an online competitor to Microsoft Office and other Web-based collaboration suites. But today Dennerline is departing the company for CRM- and platform-as-a-service company Salesforce , where he’s becoming its head of enterprise sales in the Americas.

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Salesforce Poaches Cisco’s Collaboration Guru

Not that we thought it was a fabrication this morning, but Reuters has managed to snap a few pictures of the Nokia Booklet 3G “mini laptop” to assure us that there is indeed at least one physical unit in existence, located at the company’s Helsinki headquarters. As seen in another photo, the model sports the blue lid, and just so you’re absolutely clear how a 10.1-inch netbook sizes up to an actual phone, we’ve got a side-by-side with an E71.

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Nokia Booklet 3G is really real, as seen on camera

As sure as the sun, Mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin managed to nab a very early look at the still yet-to-be-announced Nokia N97 Mini , and as if we needed another reminder , the FCC filing wasn’t kidding with that 1:1 scale. Turns out it only takes “around a centimeter” difference to earn the “mini” nomenclature in Finland, and in addition to that peculiarity, the company’s apparently managed to make the keyboard actually worse than its predecessor — no small feat, if you ask us

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Nokia N97 Mini previewed: not so mini, not so great

Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between science fiction and mass consumer experience as soon as next month. It’s widely believed that the operating system for the iPhone 3Gs will be updated this Fall, possibly in September, to allow developers to use the phone’s location awareness and internal compass to orient displays of information and imagery placed on top of the view through the camera

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Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That’s Everywhere