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If the next-generation Amazon Kindle were to have a color e-ink display, this is what Pixar's Cars might look like running on the device. While playback isn't the smoothest, it's definitely a step in the right direction. Video after the break.

It's certainly in the realm of possibility that the Kindle line could expand to include both an LCD display device and an E-Ink one.

These leaked pictures give us a first look at the Amazon Kindle iPad app, which "presents two new ways for people to view their entire e-book collection, including one view where large images of book covers are set against a backdrop of a silhouetted figure reading under a tree." Click here for first picture in gallery.

The best thing Apple could do? Let them be. The easiest way to convert a Kindle customer into an iBooks customer is to let them seamlessly move to the iPad, bringing all their old books and their Kindle account with them.

Remember the movie BIG, starring Tom Hanks? There's a rumor circulating on Twitter that his character, Josh Baskin, actually invented the Amazon Kindle during the "final presentation to the MacMillan toy executives." For those who have the movie, you can skip to that scene for confirmation. If not, here's a summary:

In that scene, Baskin hypothesizes an electronic reader for comic books, and many of the advantages he suggests for it could be taken straight from a Bezos press release.

Thanks to Amazon's acquisition of multi-touch display manufacturer Touchco, a color touchscreen Kindle may be coming sooner than later. The company's touchscreen technology "is designed to be cheap—under $10 a square foot - using a resistive display tech called interpolating force-sensitive resistance."

What makes it more special is that unlike most resistive touchscreens, it's pressure sensitive, and can detect an infinite number of simultaneous touches.

Just about everyone gets depressed sooner or later, and the book How to Good-bye Depression by Hiroyuki Nishigaki offers one of the weirdest solutions we've seen, and unfortunately, it's not yet available on the Kindle. According to one of the reviews, a "significant portion of it is dedicated to reprinting USENET posts, where Nishigaki posts his ideas to a depression newsgroup, and every other poster gets completely and utterly baffled." Product page.

I think constricting an*s 100 times and denting navel 100 times in succession everyday is effective to good-bye depression and take back youth. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway.

Amazon's Kindle DX has now gone international and can now be "synched to wireless mobile telephone networks [3G] in more than 100 countries so users can download books, magazines, or other digital reading material regardless of location." Just to recap, it features an auto-rotating 9.7-inch display, built-in PDF reader, and measures just 0.38-inches thick. Product page. Video after the break.

"Now, DX customers can take all of their books with them when they travel and all their loose printed documents; All of your newspapers can follow you from country to country, delivered fresh each morning, with no additional fee," Freed said.

Believe it or not, Amazon Kindle downloads overtook real book sales this Christmas season. A company representative says that: "On Amazon's peak day, December 14, 2009, customers ordered over 9.5 million items worldwide." Product page.

Let's make sure we read those figures right, though. "On Christmas Day customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books." How many people, in comparison, were ordering physical books on Christmas Day?

While this book may fully reveal the shocking truth, you most certainly won't find "Everything Men Know About Women" as a digital download for the Amazon Kindle anytime soon. Continue reading to see why.

[via Randomblog]

The Amazon Kindle DX not only sold out in 3-days, it's rugged case can easily handle a 30-inch drop, as you'll see after the break. However, we still don't recommend trying this at home. Product page

Good, because apparently the old Kindle can't survive in a padded sleeve, inside a laptop bag.

If you hate reading, but love the Amazon Kindle, then this model should do the trick. This device makes *reading* just as fun as watching movies. Just pop in your favorite DVD, and you're set to *read*. Continue reading to watch.