Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Coming Right Up Edition [Remainders]

Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.

In today's Remainders: the upcoming. The Spring Design E-Reader, soon to be available for presale; 4chan's mainstream embrace, as signaled by their Jeopardy mention; an idiotic Mall Cop's impending termination; a backlash to RFID gravestones, and more.

Oh Alex?
We thought the Spring Design Alex ebook reader was a viable threat to the Nook when we got a hands on at CES, but those of you who were waiting patiently for its February 22 preorder date will have to wait a little bit longer. The company's website is now saying that you'll be able to claim yours sometime in the first week of March. The last we heard, Alex will go for $359. [SlashGear]

Oh Alex?
I love Jeopardy. I also love Alex Trebek, and I've sort of forced myself into this fantasy that he, personally, is the one coming up with all of the answers he puts forward to the Jeopardy contestants every night. So I'm always tickled when something unexpected comes out of his mouth, and last night's 4chan clue definitely falls into the "unexpected" category. Though after Moot's TED talk, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that the internet's favorite rabble-rousers are hitting the mainstream. What are Lulz, Alex? [Yfrog via Laughing Squid]

Bored Board
If you just can't keep your fingers off your smartphone, this new USB keyboard from Matias might be the one for you—it features a snug little nook above the arrow keys where your iPhone can hang out while you're doing some less mobile computing. But before you get ahead of yourself, the keyboard doesn't actually interact with your phone in any meaningful way: no docking, no syncing, no charging. Basically the Matias keyboard cuddles up to your smartphone all night long without giving it any real lovin'. And that's a shame. [GeekyGadgets]

Graveyard Tech
There are bad ideas and then there are tasteless ideas, and this one flirts with the latter. RosettaStone is a system that looks to implant tombstones with RFID chips so that particular graves can be located more easily and epitaphs read wirelessly. I'm all about new technology making our lives more effective and more efficient, but in this case I'd certainly prefer the old-school hardware. True, tombstones don't last forever, but you can bet your ass that RFID won't either. [SlashGear]

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