The slogan pretty much says it all: Flex Lighting has developed a new front light LED film that could drastically change the way you interact with your e-reader. According to the Chicago-based company, this film is part of a new lighting system that promises to bring smooth, nighttime reading to E Ink displays everywhere. Flex Lighting’s setup is rather simple, consisting of nothing more than a single LED and a thin layer of film, laminated onto a device’s reflective screen. At a thickness of just 50 micron, the film essentially acts as a light guide, spreading the LED’s beams across a reader’s display and creating a “soft glow” that many predecessors have thus far failed to replicate. The folks over at the eBook Reader managed to get their hands on a brief demo video, in which the system performs rather impressively. See it in action for yourself, after the break.

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TeleNav’s been bringing the turn-by-turn goods to both Android and iOS for quite a while now, and has added plenty of nifty features to its GPS platform along the way — from personalized routes to offline access. Now, the company has unveiled plans to put its navigation in every HTML5-capable browser on the planet, and the best part is, it’s free. The new service is available now for a select group of developers, who can add TeleNav’s voice-guided GPS by plugging in a single line of code into their websites or apps. The service will eventually be released for consumers and all developers, but for those devs who’d like to dip their toe into TeleNav’s web-based waters early, the company’s accepting applications now. The GPS bar has officially been raised… the question is, how will the team in Mountain View respond?

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Toshiba’s developed a camera that will take the guesswork out of finding radiation hotspots. Since the deadly particles / waves gather together in clumps, cleanup crews have to hunt around blind using geiger counters. The “Portable Gamma Camera” overlays data from a radiation sensor onto a live picture — areas shaded with red pixels have high radiation, yellow and green is medium and blue is low. Simply point it where you think the trouble is and it’ll show you exactly where to avoid. A prototype was used during the initial stages of the Fukushima cleanup and this model’s around half the size and it can even run on batteries — giving you three hours of lifesaving radiation detection.

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People in the states, get ready. Get the conga line going, because Verizon’s finally come out of its non-committal shell and announced that its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, as expected, can be purchased in stores and online starting tomorrow for $300 with a new two-year commitment. If you go through the official site to grab your copy, they’ll be ready to go at 1AM ET.

LTE’s dirty secret is also an open one — it’s a juice hog. So, if you’re planning on snatching up a Big Red-branded Samsung Galaxy Nexus, you’ll probably want to leapfrog that stock 1,850mAh battery for an extended one. Good thing, then, that Mr. Blurrycam stopped by Droid Life to give prospective owners a cure for what’s about to ail them. The heftier battery only ups the ante to 2100mAh — a far cry from the Droid Bionic’s 2760mAh — but, hey, it’s better than the alternative. And for the style-obsessed mobile maven, it appears that de rigeur unsightly hump is less severe than you’d expect. You can check it out in the video after the break or in-store — whenever that is.

The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL is officially out of the bag before its debut at next month’s Detroit Auto Show. And like its predecessors over the last five decades, the new SL continues to offer S-Class luxury and innovations in a svelte, drop-top package.

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