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A brand new version of the highly anticipated ‘UP’ wristband by the company Jawbone has just been released and it looks to be just as awesome as the original UP wristband, before it was pulled from the market. UP is a flexible, durable wristband that you wear all day and tracks your activities. When paired with the app that is available for iOS device, the UP wristband tracks your sleep, your activity level, your food and drink (if you want), your ideal wake up time and even reminds you when you’ve been sitting on your ass too long.

The band itself is essentially a new design as the original version of UP that was released last year but was then discovered to be pretty faulty and unreliable so was removed from sale. Customers that had purchased the original version were even offered a full money back promise from Jawbone. But now the 2.0 edition of the UP wristband is available and it looks to be awesome.
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A prototype of the Apple eMate 300 personal digital assistant has popped up on eBay with a list price of approximately $8,500. The listing shows a clear case eMate 300 device running the Newton operating system and is apparently in good working order (even including the original eMate stylus). Notably, the device is marked prototype and is essentially identifiable by the fact that it has a clear case, whereas the eMate models that actually made it to public release sported a dark green casing.

The eMate was original introduced in 1997 and was offered for sale at $800. However, it was discontinued less than a year later alongside the rest of the Apple Newton product line in early 1998. As shown in the listing description, it has a 480 x 320 pixel resolution and grayscale display as well as a full size keyboard and stylus. The design is reminiscent, or perhaps predictive, of the later iBook design.
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