The staff over at Engadget are pleased to announce the creation of their new iPad magazine, Distro. Detailing the week’s technology news as it happened, this publication assembles each story in what claims to be a pretty package and delivers it to you in a format that can easily be viewed offline and at your convenience.
While no specific release date was disclosed, the magazine is expected to be released for the iPad soon, with promises that they are already hard at work to make it available for other platforms.
Intended to be distributed for free, it comes with the promise of making the news easy to understand and follow while keeping you from being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of what is available within.
Describing the design of their magazine as ‘not quite linear’, they claim you do not need a table of contents because you can easily scroll from left to right to move between articles and if you want to dig deeper into the one you are currently reading just slide down the screen.
Having hired a team of designers, the publication repurposes web content but not in a way that resembles the way it looked online. the magazine looks pulled together and professional and closely mimics the bright colours and modern design of other successful tech magazines.
While the point of Distro is to deliver the entirety of Engadget to your device, they also claim to be including additional supporting documents and information in an effort to broaden your understanding of the articles and topics that are of interest to you.
When Distro launches, I’ll be sure to pick up my copy –but I wonder if the news will feel stale and out of date?
Launched in 2004, Engadget is a web based tech magazine covering topics ranging from global trends in consumer electronics to the latest gadgets.
Engadget Unveils Distro – All New iPad Tech Magazine
