Double awesome today.
An 8 year old returns $4,000 plus jewelry and bank cards to their proper owner. Then, someone buys her tickets to a Bieber concert for her honesty.
A questions to ask yourself if you’re considering the new Amazon Kindles. My favorite question:
Q: I prefer paper books to ebooks because of blah blah blah.
A: Nobody cares except you.
Also, refer to Question 1.
Usain Bolt cannot outrun our future robotic overlords anymore. The latest mechanical cheetah can run .5 MPH faster than him. And is that a laser on the “head” area? This doesn’t bode well for humans.
via Boing Boing
New Kindles all around.
There’s an 8.9″ Fire HD, a 7-inch Kindle Fire, a ‘paperwhite’ Kindle, and the ‘old’ Kindle which has new guts and an even lower price tag.
There are some interesting software features, too. But in addition to them (and the fact that Amazon gutted Google’s OS and, effectively, made it their own), there are actual prices and ship dates.
Oh… and one more thing… A 32GB Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE for $499 – just like Apple’s base WiFi iPad with 16GB. The data plan is very reasonable, too, which (I hope) will upset the mobile carriers a bit and disrupt their crappy plans.
Microsoft, Google, and Samsung are probably a little nervous right now. There are lots of questions to ask of Amazon and Apple in the next few weeks so this is definitely a “stay tuned” kind of space.
Well played, Amazon. Well played.
How could I not post this?
And I’ve said a few of those things to people… Like the “no viruses” thing – even if I know that’s not really true.
This video is everywhere but I saw it first on The Loop.