Fancy a PDF read on a new topic? Of course you do! Learning is essential to getting into a hacker mindset. How are you going to exploit a server’s vulnerabilities without knowing any Perl? Lucky for us, the team at HackNMod found some shady FTP site (with an HTML-based index) that features hundreds of scanned books in PDF form. You’ll find titles on hacking, programming and plenty of other subjects available for download. Get on it, though. Who knows how long this will stay up before O’Reilly or McGraw-Hill sends over a DMCA takedown notice.

Obviously, bookends are not required.

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Intel has some pretty cool stuff up their sleeves as of late. This “Metro Notebook” concept is Intel’s attempt at creating a restyled, ultra-slim and ultra-light laptop that takes into consideration, the young urbanites need for class and style. The sub-0.7 thick, 1 kg sized Metro has an outside display built into the back of the monitor which serves as an always-on update screen.

The Metro’s outside screen will be made as a colored non-volatile e-ink screen that shows important content, such as e-mail, calandar entries, eBooks and more, even when the power supply is cut off. The Metro is designed for complete wireless communications with a reconfigurable antennae which can be switched between Bluetooth, WiFi, and WiMax. Intel also hopes to ship the item enabled to charge your cellphone and other devices wirelessly through a charge pad. One word: Wow! Hit the jump for an in-depth look at the features with a labeled pic. (more…)

This sweet little eBook reader and mp3 player from Sharp boasts a 4.3″ TFT LCD display and Voxware audio technology. So far, the only eBooks available for the RD-CX100 are dictionaries, but Sharp already has 63 different dictionaries for it! No word on how much storage space it has, or whether the QWERTY keyboard hints at text-entry capability. There is also no word on whether the dictionary eBooks can include an audio component, so you can hear the proper pronunciation of words. Also no word on price or availability (gee, there’s a lot of unknowns here, aren’t there?), but the RD-CX100 is currently only available for Korea, and is likely to stay there. — Mike Payne

RD-CX100, the latest Sharp eBook reader and dictionary for Korea [AkihabaraNews]