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Gemini is a dual-screen e-reader and is coming out soon [video]

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do people in tech just straight up ignore the fact that they're all using the same names? is it ignorance? hubris? indifference? why would you ever use the name gemini not that google has co-opted it?

Why would you not use it just because Google coopted it?

Google will rename or cancel it soon anyways.

there were multiple Meta companies before Facebook/Zuckerberg co-opted it, such as an amazing motorcyle brand/publication which was forced to change to https://vahna.com. they chased them with lawyers and Vahna didn't want to fight it so they rebranded.

big tech is going to steal the big names and it makes zero sense for fellow tech companies to get mired in the legal + SEO drama.

Never hear of meebok in comment above yours. Even a name like that has a .org and .com [1] neither of which, as far as I can tell, have anything to do with the e-reader.

[1] Danish, I think, and kept timing out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/12saul4/meebook_m6...

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/review-of-the-meebook-m...

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804953944359.html

It's a Chinese company.

Why would Google use "Gemini" now that the astrology community has co-opted it?

It's fine to have a word reused in different contexts, but we've had a lot of "gemini"s in computing/tech, and in fact we've had an actual mobile computer device named gemini already ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_PDA ).

Not to mention the Gemini Protocol, which had the name long before Google: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Presumably work on this device began well before the existence of Google Gemini was public knowledge. Either way, this product has no relation to AI or Google, so it doesn't matter.

This is exciting stuff. It's amazing how Amazon s domination and lack of business interest in improving the product killed off the e-reader in the us. Go to China or Japan and these things are numerous and still being sold/developed.

I'm waiting on a meebook to be delivered.

EDIT: Just got it.. This thing is amazing and the screen is sharp.

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