Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch Overview

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In this video I give an overview of the new Amazon Kindle Fire, Amazon Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G as well as the new Amazon Kindle 4. The Amazon Kindle Fire is the long awaited Amazon tablet and features a 7″ full color IPS touchscreen display, dual core processor, 8GB of memory, a free month of Amazon Prime and full access to Amazon Kindle, Cloud Player, Prime Instant Streaming and fast web browsing with Amazon Silk. It is available for preorder today and ships on November 15th for $199.

Amazon also unveiled several new Kindle eReaders. The first of which is the Kindle Touch which features a E-Ink touchscreen and loses the keyboard making it much more compact. It will be accompanied by a 3G model, giving the Amazon Kindle Touch 3G lifetime unlimited worldwide 3G data for an extra $50. The Kindle Touch will be available for preorder today and ships on November 21st for $99 with Special Offers, $139 without and the Kindle Touch 3G will run you $149 with Special Offers based ads and $189 without.

Lastly there is the next generation Amazon Kindle 4, dubbed just the Kindle. This shares a very similar design to the Kindle Touch but removes the touchscreen and the X-Ray feature and adds a couple extra buttons (while still lacking a keyboard). The Kindle 4 is on sale today for $79 with Special Offers and $109 without.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G Review

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In this video I review the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G smartphone for AT&T. This phone features a 4″ display with a resolution of 480×854, 1GHz single core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8655 processor and Adreno 205 GPU, slide out physical gaming controls, Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a custom Sony Ericsson skin, 5 megapixel rear facing camera with autofocus and a LED flash, front facing VGA camera and access to the AT&T HSPA+ 4G network.

In the video I take an indepth look at call quality, data speeds, camera quality with both photos and video, the screen, the controls for gaming, the price and build quality.

Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

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http://www.ted.com Some kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of school in the UK where small teams of kids learn by working on projects that are, as Mulgan puts it, “for real.”

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!

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http://www.ted.com Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we’re caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

Abraham Verghese: A doctor’s touch

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http://www.ted.com Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.