While you can’t buy a QUE proReader until summer it seems that you can buy the company. Well, maybe not you but someone with a few hundred million in the bank. At least that’s the way the Financial Times is framing a piece focused on UK investor Hermann Hauser, whose venture capital firm has a stake in Plastic Logic. According to Hauser, “We’re in very interesting negotiations with … well, that would be a separate interview, you will hopefully hear [more] about this in the autumn.” Why would anybody want to buy this offshoot from the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory? After all, dedicated monochrome E-Ink devices are on their last legs , right

Internationally-known for its harmonicas, Hohner doesn’t like to discriminate. Especially against little people. Measuring just 3.5cm long, the world’s smallest harmonica plays the whole octave in C-Major and costs an equally small $23. [ LatestBuy ] More

Tear down the iPad, and you see that the internals are quite similar to the iPhone’s, albeit nested behind a giant battery.Tear down Apple’s new A4 processor, though, and you see just how deep the similarities run. More

I already pointed it out in the analysis of Apple iPad’s industrial design , but I wanted to show you how stupid a widescreen iPad looks. More

We’re reviewing as many iPad apps as possible LIVE and updating throughout the day. If you have a specific app you want reviewed, let us know in the comments. So many apps that we had to start a second post! More

HP’s rolled out another promotional video for their Slate, again—not surprisingly—highlighting its advantages over the iPad. Like a camera! A built-in USB port and SD slot! And… iTunes. Well, we’ll call that last one a wash. More

Besides using the iPad in bed and on the couch, you know the reason you bought this thing was for toilet entertainment. Verdict: It’s decent but distracting—and sometimes dangerous. More

Sure, he seems a bit confused about how to fit it into his utility belt, but it looks like even Batman has an iPad. Guess he felt the need to buy one after seeing these other costumed folks holding theirs: More

After one day on the market, the Apple iPad has been jailbroken. That certainly didn’t take long, did it? It was only a matter of time, sure, but this was speedy even by most jailbreaking standards. More

Not satisfied with a simple electric skateboard ? It seems like some researchers at Japan’s Shibaura Institute of Technology weren’t either, and have been busily working on this so-called “robo-skateboard” for the past little while. Like some DIY efforts we’ve seen, this one uses a Segway-like mechanism to let you ride it by simply pressing down on the front or back and turn by leaning left or right, although it apparently tops out at a mere six miles per hour. It also weighs a whopping 33 pounds, which explains the retractable luggage-like handle for carrying it around, and it’s apparently been quite a significant investment for the institute — considering that the researchers are hoping to get the price down to