大学時代の友達がもう使っていないというのでKindleをくれた。DXという画面の大きいモデルだ。操作性は良くないが、画面に関してはなるほどいいもんだ。今まではそう気にならなかったが、もはや普通の液晶画面で物を読むのが辛い体になってしまった。の英語

My friend from university gave me a Kindle because he said he wasn't using it anymore. It's the DX model with a large screen. It's not easy to use, but the screen is indeed quite nice. It hadn't bothered me until now, but it's become hard for me to read something on a normal LCD screen.

In the U.S., the iPad and Amazon.com's Kindle, an electronic book reader, are stimulating the electronic book market.

Amazon Japan, a major Internet retailer, started taking orders for its Kindle e-book readers on Oct. 24.

Because the iPad's large screen is suitable for showing magazines and comics, some Japanese fashion magazines have started making iPad editions.

More than half the models of digital cameras sold at an electronics retail store in Tokyo's Akihabara have a special-effects mode.

Users can easily operate the iPad with a touch panel to enjoy the Web, photos, videos, music and games, and to send e-mails.

The display uses new technology to combine organic TFT (thin-film transistor) with organic EL (electroluminescence) on a flexible plastic film.

The new displays may have better picture quality for higher-definition video than liquid crystal and plasma displays.

In the future, the organic EL displays are expected to be used for thin, flexible and light electronic products such as electronic paper and billboards.

Computers are certainly playing an important role in our life, whether we like it or not.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the press conference, “The iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.”

BCN, a private marketing research company, held a press conference on June 15 and announced that according to its research the World Cup has boosted sales of digital appliances.

On Jan. 27, Apple introduced the iPad, a new tablet computer, at a press conference in San Francisco.

Last year, the Agency checked the effectiveness of the Tokyo-based Doppler radar and found that its rain prediction rate was 5 to 10 percent more accurate than that of conventional radars.

At the Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo, many iPod customers, especially young people and women, are switching from a Windows-based machine to a Mac.

But computers with the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) have been much more popular than Macs for a long time.

The company started selling "Windows," an operating system for personal computers and came to dominate the market.

This month Docomo will introduce three new products including the world's thinnest smartphone, the MEDIAS.

The manufacturers are trying to lure more former riders back to motorcycling by giving riding lessons and making motorcycles that are easier to ride.

To improve the accuracy of windstorm and localized downpour predictions, the Meteorological Agency plans to install Doppler radars nationwide in fiscal 2007.

It is the first time Bandai has changed the size of the capsules since it started selling capsule toys in 1977.

It also includes Windows Aero, a new graphical user interface that offers three-dimensional, semi-transparent windows.

Semiconductor devices are used in almost all modern electronic devices, such as computers and cell phones, and are essential for our lives.

On May 28, Apple's iPad was released in nine countries including Japan, Britain and Australia.

The standard Kindle Paperwhite model costs 7,980 yen while the 3G model sells for 12,980 yen.

A spokesperson for Sharp Corporation says, "Liquid crystal TVs are selling so well that we can't keep up with demand, but the penetration rate is still only 2 percent."

In April, Bandai, the nation’s largest capsule toy manufacturer, started using capsules of 50 millimeters in diameter for some of its 200-yen products in place of 65-millimeter capsules.

Also with the release of “iPod shuffle” and “iPod nano,” Apple rapidly increased its share of the portable-digital-music-player market.

Tim Cook, the company's CEO, said that iOS 7 represents the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

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