Samsung’s SUR40 has been a long time coming. The 40-inch next-gen Surface was unveiled at CES 2011, but it’s only just now starting to ship, following the 2012 edition of that gadget show. It finally went up for pre-order in mid-November for $8,400, but at the time we still had no clear date for shipments. Those of you waiting impatiently to get your table-PC can rest easy however, as the AMD-based Win7 machine should already be en route to your doorstep — provided you coughed up the cash one of course. We guess it was just a matter of finally getting that sensor-in-pixel [Read More]

Intuit GoPayment is kicking off 2012 in style with a new free card reader and the beginning of a plan for global domination: first starting in Canada. The swipe card reader will sit atop any iDevice for the small business looking to become a card-friendly empire and comes free when you sign up with the service. The reader and the northward expansion will be available in “early 2012″ with much-hyped encryption for your nervous consumers. We’re gonna be swinging by the company’s booth at Pepcom this night where we’re gonna try to get hands-on with the gear, but in the meantime, head on past the break for the press release. [Read More]

We might never know the untold number of people who bought Withings’ WiFi scale for tweeting their daily weigh-ins, but it must have been an impressive enough figure, as Fitbit just announced something very similar. The Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale tracks weight, BMI and body fat percentage, only instead of sending those nuggets to Twitter, it all goes straight to Fitbit’s own site. For people who have never bought any of the company’s products, this website will understandably be a revelation, but in fact it’s the same place where Fitbit Ultra owners go to see how many calories they’ve burned. Even if you’re a newcomer, the website happens to be quite engaging, though we suspect you’ll get the most out of it if you also have a Fitbit tracker to tally your hours spent on the Stairmaster. In any case, we got some hands-on time tonight (sorry, feet-on jokes are lame), and we’ve got hands-on shots below to prove it.
As far as designer scales go, the Aria sure is pretty, with its glass top and bright, circular display displaying weight and body fat percentage (you’ll have to log into fitbit.com to see your body mass index, or BMI). Look closely and you can see quadrants, each of which houses the sensors that collects all that data. All told, that slim, glass-topped thing should accommodate 400 pounds — a claim yours truly was happily unable to test. [Read More]