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Submission + - On-line chess with physical pieces on checkerboard

Submitted by D4C5CE on Saturday July 10, 2010 @07:13AM

D4C5CE writes: A chess-playing German tinkerer has contrived (and made a video of) an amazing contraption that plugs real chess pieces into the freechess.org server using a 20W LED and an old webcam to read their moves on a projected checkerboard.

Submission + - Plastic Logic makes paper a page of history eBooks

Submitted by D4C5CE on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @04:49PM

D4C5CE writes: Plastic Logic, elected "gods" of the DEMOfall 08 conference today, are coming to market with an ultra-flat, PDF-compatible giant touchscreen E Ink reader based on plastic rather than silicon electronics, with production ramping up from next week to dethrone the Kindle by Q2/2009. If you enjoyed the latest Esquire you will probably love this.

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