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Atom and Apple-like tech

Mobile Internet devices and a concept model provide eye candy at this week's IDF.

Scientists develop eye camera

Could a bionic eye be next?

 
 
 

A peek at the future of telemedicine

Could games be the way to stay fit and healthy?

Intel's future for robots, health care, PCs

Take a peek at automated devices for use in the home and office

 
 
 

Indonesia's Zyrex turns on UMPC charm

The PC manufacturer shows off its ultra-mobile machines at the CommunicAsia 2008 show.

S'pore firm offers traffic updates

Quantum Inventions' service pushes traffic conditions to mobile phones.

 
 
 

Location-based services going places

The Tele Atlas van makes an appearance at the imbX 2008.

CommunicAsia gets ready for showtime

Exhibitors and contractors put the finishing touches to booths at CommunicAsia, part of the imbX 2008.

 
 
 

A peek at the upcoming MIDs

Hardware vendors show off upcoming mobile Internet devices at Intel Developer Forum 2008 in Shanghai.

Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac

A look at the new features in the KDE4.0 released last month


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10 tech disappointments with cool names

Friday, July 27 2007 10:51 am

Some tech companies occasionally invest more brainpower in naming their products than in making them successful.


No list of disappointing gadgets would be complete without the Apple Newton MessagePad, the personal digital assistant that Apple manufactured in the 1990s. One of Apple's most notorious flops, the Newton was undoubtedly ahead of its time, but it just didn't sell. Maybe it was the high price (which peaked at $1,000) or the fact that the Doonesbury comics relentlessly mocked it much as Arrested Development poked fun at the Segway.

Its Scientific Revolution-inspired name (get it? Newton's Apple?) carried the obvious connotations of discovery, innovation and enlightenment. Unfortunately, this Apple landed on the ground with a thud.

But some still say the Newton's spirit lives on: in the form of the already-legendary iPhone.

Credit: Apple


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