Tag archive: cover

In a trend that would sound eerily familiar to the maker of any electronic gadget, Amazon.com now finds itself as the target of a class action lawsuit over its popular portable device, the Kindle electronic reader. The suite, filed in Seattle by one Matthew Geise, alleges a $30 optional protective cover designed to protect the e-reader's screen actually damages the display, causing it to crack and, eventually, doing in the Kindle… Read More

Esquire magazine, a long-time staple publication devoted to…well, OK, we don't know what, but it seems to involve glamor photos of female celebrities, pop culture, and alcohol—is making new play to capture eyeballs on magazine racks across America: 100,000 copies of the publication's September 2008 issue will be distributed to newsstands with a flashing, battery-powered cover featuring E-Ink technology, the same… Read More

“Materials company Pvaxx Research & Development, at the request of U.S.-based mobile phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), has come up with a polymer that looks like any other plastic, but which degrades into soil when discarded. Researchers at the University of Warwick in Britain then helped to develop a phone cover that contains a sunflower seed, which will feed on the nitrates that are formed when the polyvinylalcohol polymer cover… Read More