Scarlet Umbrella|Adventures in Mobile Technology

Either way the Kohjinsha SA1 should make the people complaining about the lack of keyboard in a UMPC happy.  This Japanese device has a 7″ screen, 40 gb harddrive (up to 80 gb), keyboard, touchscreen swivel display, and up to 1 gig of RAM.  So far it’s slated to be released only in Japan but the folks at Dynamism already have it up for preorder.  At $999, it really is tempting.  My main concern is the 500 Mhz processor and the fact that I really wish it came with 1024×600 resolution instead of 800×480.  Still, it looks like a nice little device!

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I sincerely apologize for the long break in updating Scarlet Umbrella.  I don’t want to bore you with details but I do feel that an explanation is in order.  Basically, real life got real complicated real fast.  My “day job” is a graduate student.  This semester I have alternated working on purifying a protein with one of my group’s collaborators and having my first “hands on” experience playing a professor.  I won a fellowship to work with a mentor in my department developing my skills as a teacher.  For the fellowship, I tutored students, developed my own lectures, wrote my own homework and quizzes and led review sessions for a class of 170 students.   Around the same time, I had to deal with some personal difficulties including my aunt’s cancer becoming terminal.

I hope that everyone has been doing well these past few months and has been having fun inking.

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