Looks like Apple is realizing that if you are going to be building a larger-form factor device like the iPad , you’ve gotta realize that some of the people that use it are going to want a physical keyboard. With that knowledge, they’ve prepared a keyboard accessory for the iPad. It’s actually both a keyboard and a dock for charging the iPad as well, which can be used to plug in to a USB power adapter, sync with a computer, etc
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iPad keyboard accessory
Yeah, it has memory all right…terrifying memories that will keep you up at night. I recall seeing someone develop a computer mouse out of an actual mouse before, but this one is even creepier with red LED eyes that light up with each data transfer. ( zackaholic’s Flickr via Make via Gizmodo )
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Taxidermied Mouse USB Drive Is Filled With Terrifying Memories
Everything was going great at Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ), until today. The Macs are selling because Vista was a terrible operating system, and while Windows 7 is better, it’s still not considered “cool” to own an HP, Dell or Acer computer.
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With the iPad, Apple just jumped the shark
Apple have unveiled the iPad , their long-awaited and much-rumored tablet. A half-inch thick slate, the iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD IPS 1024 x 768 display with multitouch, , WiFi 802.11n and – optionally – integrated 3G, the iPad is based on a new 1GHz Apple A4 of the company’s own design. Onboard storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB, and the whole thing runs the iPhone OS with a new, custom UI. Best of all, pricing will start at $499 when the Apple iPad begins shipping in around 60 days time, with $130 on top for adding integrated 3G.
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Apple iPad official
Need to assist someone in labor with a baby that’s about to breach in a crowded tent city in the devastated city of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti? Well, there’s not an app for that, but an iPhone can help.
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Doctor at Georgetown Medical Center helps Haitian pregnant woman via iPhone
Sony Ericsson’s new smartphone is ergonomic, HD, and has a full touch screen, and is meant to be a major threat to the iPhone 3Gs. It’s a damn sexy looking little beast, so it might just make a good go of it. Sony Ericsson used something call human curvature analysis to make a phone that interacts with your body in an easy, intuitive way. I can’t really speak to how effective they were, as I haven’t held the thing myself
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Sony Ericsson Releases the Vivaz
Today at 10:00AM PST, hundreds of thousands of eyes were glued to computer screens as Steve Jobs made one of the most anticipated announcements in Apple history: the iPad. Some might giggle or scoff at the name, but that’s where the snark stops.
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Apple announces the iPad, changes the course of history
Ending months (years?) of rumors, Apple today officially unveiled their tablet computer named the Apple iPad. During a January 27 2010 Apple Event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the iPad “way better than a laptop, way better than a phone”. The iPad weights in only 1.5 pounds, which is currently lighter than any netbook, and comes in at 0.5 inches thin. The device also includes a 9.7-inch IPS display (looks 4:3?) .
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Apple Announces iPad Media Device
In 1991, Apple introduced the first laptop. 20 years later, Steve Jobs brings us the iPad to bridge the gap between the MacBook and iPhone. Just like the iPhone, the iPad lets you browse the Internet, use the touchscreen to flick through your photos, get directions via maps, and access the iTunes Store to buy apps, and watch movies and TV shows in landscape mode. Using the touchscreen keyboard, you can send emails, chat, and use the iPad like a regular computer. Hear the first details, and see more images when you read more
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The iPad Has Landed!
Yes, Google Voice for the iPhone is finally here, albeit as a Web app, allowing you to place calls from your Google Voice number, send free text messages and view transcribed voicemails. While most of the app’s core functions remain intact, there are certain limitations to the Web app. We’ve got a chart listing everything that works and doesn’t work (click on the image for a closer look), but here’s the gist: The Web app version of Google Voice can be accessed at m.google.com/voice .
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So, as we sit here, waiting for Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) to reveal their much ballyhooed tablet device to the world, we can’t help but imagine what kind of crazy technology Apple’s “next big thing” will feature. Well, we did a little digging through Apple recent patent applications, and we’ve come across one patent that could have some truly innovative implications for the imminent Apple Tablet/iSlate/iPad.
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New Apple patent could give Apple Tablet facial recognition
We at Mobile Marketing Watch will join the rest of the world today in anticipation of Apple’s big announcement of the worst kept secret in the tech-world, the yet-to-be unveiled tablet that has proven the biggest story in mobile and computer technology so far this year. While we will accompany every other major blog and media outlet in providing coverage of the tablet, there is no shortage of online hotspots to watch the event live today beginning at 1 p.m.
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Watch Apple Tablet Announcement Live
Remember Jack Skellington from the movie ‘Tim Burton’s The Night before Christmas’? Well for some reason that movie became a big cult and now Adata for some reason has turned the main character into a USB Flash Drive. Made of rubber and comes in capacities 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB it is also resists to spill water and external shock. Its USB connector is hidden inside the Jack and can be accessed by removing his head. It also comes with an extra USB cable in case you can’t easily stick him into a USB port on your computer. Jack may just scare your other funny looking USB shaped flash drives.
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Tim Burton’s The Night Before Christmas Jack Skellington Becomes a USB Flash Drive
Nokia Conversations reports that the N97 is now supported officially (some may have already found N97 mini’s ovi maps .sis to have worked for them) for the new Ovi Maps which brings users free turn-by-turn walk and drive navigation The new Ovi Maps is available through the software update client in the device . You simply open the Applications Folder, Software Update client (big green arrow) and choose the new Ovi Maps from the list. [You might even get a prompt from Ovi Maps itself telling you an update is available, and it'll bring you to SW update] At the big announcement last week, N97 users were shocked to find out they were not on the list of supported handsets for free turn-by-turn navigation. But very quickly, Nokia said that it would be available a week later on the 28th (technically tomorrow) You will need to be on firmware V2.0.x (some N97 users may not be able to get it yet but Nokia are apparently working on it) My N97 is on V20.0.019 – Nokia Software Updater on computer says that’s the latest firmware update
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We’ve heard of a few inventive ideas for detecting tsunamis, and it looks like a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA ) have now come up with another: put all those undersea internet cables to a second use. While they haven’t moved beyond computer models just yet, the group has apparently found that voltmeters attached to the end of an undersea cable are able to detect the small electric field stirred up by tsunamis, which measure around 500 millivolts. As New Scientist reports, however, the idea does have some considerable limitations, including that it wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the exact location or direction of a tsunami, and that any such system would first need to filter out noise caused by other natural events and even the cable itself. Other researchers also caution that it’s just as important to develop a system to quickly pass on a warning to potentially affected areas once a tsunami has been detected. Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:02:00 EST.
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Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis
As part of our coverage of 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC routing, and other forms of desktop fabbing — to coincide with the new “Your Desktop Factory” issue of MAKE — we’re thrilled to welcome guest contributor Shawn Wallace. Shawn is a member of AS220 , the Providence, Rhode Island community arts space
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Letters from the Fab Academy, Part 1
ColorWare has been around for a long time and in the beginning, the company mostly offered custom painting services for notebooks and other computers. The company now also offers coloring solutions for all sorts of gadgets today including smartphones. The latest smartphone to get the ColorWare treatment is the Google Nexus One. The handset can be colored with glossy or soft touch hues to your liking. The company will paint the frame, back, bottom, and camera surround.
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ColorWare offers custom colors for Nexus One
Unlike the iPhone, the Apple iPad “uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching) and has a wide, 178-degree viewing angle.” Plus, “the A4 chip inside iPad was custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient.” Click here for first picture in gallery. To maximize battery life, Apple engineers took the same lithium polymer battery technology they developed for our notebook computers and applied it to the iPad. As a result, you can use iPad for up to 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music. [via Apple ]
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In the passing tough year best remembered for crisis, loss of jobs, and overall uncertainty, the outsourcing industry has made many gloomy headlines in the news resources. Interesting enough to note that the end of the year brings forecasts for the IT community as optimistic as long not heard. After the brutal 2009, we’re glad to receive some encouraging news again. With the leading and most trusted Forrester and Gartner at the front of the line, most other analyst houses and industry associations including IDC, IAOP, NOA echo with optimistic releases. Rejoice, IT! We’ve made it through! The Forrester’s loud statement “Tech downturn officially over” gave way to numerous sequential prognostications the quintessence of which sounds as follows: IT spending is set to grow in the coming year
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Outsourcing Potential 2010 – How Does It Look Like? (Part 1)
Bletchley Park , the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and the birthplace of the modern computer, is again in the news thanks to John Graham-Cumming ‘s book The Geek Atlas . O’Reilly pledged to give 50p per copy of the book sold in the UK to the Bletchley Park Fund and we are delighted to send our first cheque for £1000. Unfortunately not everyone has heard of the plight of Bletchley Park. The Bletchley Park Trust is aiming to preserve the core heritage of the site and to build on the work of the wartime pioneers through education and technology innovation
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O’Reilly donates £1000 to Bletchley Park
Found this cool tip on CNET on how to turn off that bugging camera notification one gets every time an iPhone or iPod Touch is connected to a computer using USB sync cable. These instructions works for both Mac and PC users. Steps for Windows Vista and Windows 7 1. Connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer. 2.
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How To Turn Off Camera Notifications?