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Even after I wrote a couple of posts about Amazon’s Kindle announcements last week, something still nagged me – I sensed there was an angle I was missing – and two nights ago it finally hit me. I woke from a fretful sleep and discovered a question pinballing through my synapses: What the heck does Kuzuo Ishiguro think about this? Or, more generally: Whose book is it, anyway? You might have thought that question was put to rest a few hundred years ago. For quite a while after Gutenberg invented the printing press, the issue of who controlled a book’s contents remained a fraught one. As is often the case, it took many years for laws, contractual arrangements, business practices, and social norms to catch up with the revolutionary new technology. But in due course the dust settled, and control over a book’s contents came to rest firmly in the hands of a book’s author (at least through the term of copyright). Which seems like the proper outcome. You probably wouldn’t, for instance, want book retailers to be able to fiddle with the text of a new book at their whim – that would be annoying, confusing, and wrong. And…

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Ecoterre: German researchers are putting the Windows into after-hours window shopping, an activity that has been strictly look, but dont touchat least, until the stores reopen in the morning. At the recent IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, representatives from the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute unveiled an interactive Shop Window system that allows would-be customers to learn more about the products in a display, no matter the time of day (or night). Using a Microsoft Kinect-like sensor that recognizes common gestures, window shoppers can learn more about a product simply by pointing at it.

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TrendHunter: As far as multi-functional tools go, nothing tops the 12-in-1 EvriScissors. Thats right, the 12-in-1 EvriScissors serve 12 different functions in one monstrosity of a pair of scissors. A single, sharpened blade is useful on its own, but move to the tip and users get a bottle opener and a screwdriver. Head towards the middle and find a cap opener for jars and bottles. In between the handles are several ridges, making for a functioning wire cutter. Other functions the EvriScissor has include nutcracker, fish scaler, can opener, wrench and more.

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