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If you travel a lot to the same location, you probably eventually learn your way around the airport.  If you don’t travel as frequetly or you’re always going to different places, you may wish Google Maps worked within airport terminals when you find yourself arriving at gate A1 and leaving from gate Z42 – and you have a 10 minute layover.  AirportAce HD lets you carry terminal maps for several airports along with you in your iPad;  you don’t need internet access to use the information.  In addition to the terminal maps, you can check airport parking and transportation options, and see a list of where restaurants, shopping, and other amenities are located.  You can even learn if WiFi is available at the airport and its cost.  There’s information for about 50 airports world-wide now, but the developer promises updates with new airports monthly – free for life.  You can request an airport, too.  The HD version is designed to make use of the iPad’s bigger screen and costs $4.99, but there’s a version for iPhone/iPod touch for $3.99.  There is also a free  Lite version (with only seven airports) to let you try out the interface and information before plunking down your money for the full … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: News , Travel Gear , iPhone, iPad, iPod related Tagged: iPad app , Travel gear AirportAce HD App for iPad originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm.

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AirportAce HD App for iPad

According to the CDMA Development Group, a new solution for CDMA networks, such as those run by Verizon Wireless and Sprint, would allow CDMA cell phones to access wireless data while on an active voice call, something that they are currently incapable of doing. Read the full story here.

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Simultaneous voice and data coming to CDMA; hope yet for Verizon iPhone users

Three UK has announced that the RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available to its post-paid customers for 249 GBP with a 30 GBP monthly contract. The company is also now offering users a pay-as-you-go option for BlackBerry smartphones, starting with the BlackBerry Curve 9300. PAYG BlackBerry service costs 5 GBP per month on top of the cost of Three’s All in One plan, which offers 3,000 texts, 100 voice minutes, and 500MB of data for 10 GBP. Read the full story here.

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Three UK offering BlackBerry Torch 9800 and pre-paid BlackBerry service

Yesterday President Obama signed the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, which requires manufacturers to make some consumer electronics, such as smartphones and telephones, more accessible to the vision and hearing impaired. Read the full story here.

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President Obama signs tech bill for hearing, visually impaired

Earlier this week, I read about a tiny Pac-Man discovered with an electron microscope . But that was just a random scientific anomaly. Turns out there’s a real microscopic Pac-Man out there, and you can actually play it! Developed by Japanes design professor Kotoro “dotimpact” Tanaka, the microscopic Pac-Man [JP] uses a small video projector, combined with the original Pac-Man arcade hardware to allow play of the game through the optics of a microscope. The tiny rig reflects its image through a mirror to produce a 1cm square image at a resolution of 1439-ppi (way denser than Apple’s retina display!) Once magnified through the eyepiece of the microscope, it’s just like playing the full-size game

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microscopic pac-man

Some news coming out of Korea seems to suggest that LG’s Android tablet was never planned to run Android 2.2 Froyo, and that the tablet’s delay could be due, instead, to Google delaying the launch of its tablet-friendly Android Gingerbread OS, which was originally planned for Q4 of 2010. Read the full story here.

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Is LG’s tablet delay really an Android Gingerbread delay?

(image courtesy psdgraphics ) Random House was the only major publisher last year to hold out and refuse to work with Apple on an “agency pricing” system. They basically said setting prices was not their job, but that of the retailer, and if Apple wanted to sell books they could set the prices too

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Random House Loves eBooks, But Not iBooks

T-Mobile G2 owners have reported that their new smartphones cannot be rooted, which would allow for deeper customization of the device. T-Mobile responded to the complaints and said: “The HTC software implementation on the G2 stores some components in read-only memory as a security measure to prevent key operating system software from becoming corrupted and rendering the device inoperable. There is a small subset of highly technical users who may want to modify and re-engineer their devices at the code level, known as “rooting,” but a side effect of HTC’s security measure is that these modifications are temporary and cannot be saved to permanent memory.

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T-Mobile responds to G2 Android smartphone rooting issue

If you hear ‘Adobe Air’ and think ‘huh?’, you are not alone. Unlike Flash, which is a pretty high-profile content-enabler (and computer disabler if you listen to Steve Jobs), Air is a much smaller and lighter component which has become more popular recently, and is used to fuel things like TweetDeck, the Good Old Games downloader, and the corporate Twitter-alike Yammer. There are a ton more, as evidenced by this article pointing out 60+ Air applications you should know . About a month or so ago Adobe announced that they would bring the Air platform to Android smartphones, and today they have done just that! You can now grab it from the Android Market, though it is a relatively chunky 5.7MB (not clear if you can move it to the SD card).

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T en One Design’s Pogo Stylus for the iPhone 4 isn’t radically different than their original stylus, but you do get some added functionality with the clip on stylus holder. Besides holding your stylus when it isn’t be used, it will double as a stand to position your iPhone at a comfortable viewing angle in portrait and landscape orientations. The Pogo Stylus comes in 4 colors: Hot Pink, Black, Cactus and Burnt Orange. It’s priced at $14.95 (Available Now for Pre-Order – ships by Oct. … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: News , Spotlight Gadgets , iPhone, iPad, iPod related Tagged: iPhone , Stand , Stylus Ten One Design iPhone 4 Pogo Stylus Now Available originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 9, 2010 at 10:00 am.

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Ten One Design iPhone 4 Pogo Stylus Now Available

I look a good design concept as much as the next guy, but the designer of the iPhone Next Generation concept has balls bigger than an iPad to rip off Steve Jobs’ gadget. Samuel Lee Kwon, watch out for Apple legal ninjas and keep an eye on the mail box for the inevitable cease and desist that is coming your way. Apple’s ire aside, this is one awesome design concept

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iphone merges with palm

On Friday the new OSHW definition and overview drafts were posted, there are great discussions going on here’s a round up! Adafruit – Open-source hardware statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 Arduino blog – Open-source hardware statement of principles and definition . Bug Labs – Update Open Hardware Definition. MAKE Magazine – Open-source hardware statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 Open-source hardware summit – New statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 is up SparkFun – Open source hardware . Please join the mailing list and post in the forums with your comments, thoughts and suggestions! Read the Full Story

The LogicBUY Deal for today is a rare sale price for the Bose Around Ear Triport Headphones .  This LogicBUY deal beats anything else they’ve seen by $36.  The headphones are normally $139.99, but you’ll take $50 off for a final price of $89.99 .  You’ll get free shipping , and you’ll only pay tax if you live in CA, NJ, TN, and PR.  This deal ends October 11, 2010 or … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Audio, Video, TV Gear , News Tagged: Bose headphones , Deal of the Day Deal of the Day – Bose Around Ear Triport Headphones for $89.99 originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 9, 2010 at 7:00 am.

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Deal of the Day – Bose Around Ear Triport Headphones for $89.99

We know you’ve spotted them. Your BBM buddies pictures are blank and when you scroll over them, there’s a hidden picture waiting to be discovered just in time for Halloween. There’s been a few scattered here and there, but there’s a site that has over a hundred of them waiting for you to find and save. And they are even offering to make a special one by order for only $5 and delivered within 24 hrs! Go to the site via your BlackBerry Browser and save them to your phone.

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Ghostly Encounters Of The Avatar Kind For Your BBM

Today BlackBerry App World has updated today to the latest version. There’s no changelog with the new update, but it’s updated nonetheless. I was surprised when I received the alert today, so if you notice anything new added or fixed, please leave a comment and share it with us

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Update: BlackBerry App World Updates To v2.0.1.12

Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact in memory. Ben Fry visualized the code of several classic video games , giving insight in to the complexity of the code and how the programmer arranged the graphical elements. It’s also amazing how little was required to implement some of these games – Pitfall fits on one page . To see how far we’ve come, the visualization graphic is 1200KB, while game was only 4KB. Link: distellamap via Hacker News Read the Full Story

I’m all for Star Wars and other Sci-Fi novelty items, in fact I spend a good portion of my time on ForeverGeek writing about them, but what I really love are novelty items that are useful in everyday life, like the Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter I wrote about last week. Needless to say I was happy to discover new Jedi and Sith bathrobes being offered at the official Star Wars store

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What Do Jedi’s And Sith Do When They Get Out Of The Shower?

Another weekend, another group of sales! This week has some great deals, and some questionable ‘classics’ … but at great prices! So let’s get right to it! Good Old Games: Since Good Old Games has been shouting from the rooftops about bringing Atari-owned classics such as Baldur’s Gate and Planescape Torment into the fold, you would assume that an ‘Atari Classics’ sale would be headlined by these games, right? You would be wrong! Here is the list of stuff: Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare Blood 2: The Chosen + Expansion Independence War Deluxe Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos Master of Magic Master of Orion 1+2 Master of Orion 3 ($6.99 separate) One Unit Whole Blood Outcast Total Annihilation: Commander Pack I know, I know … there is some REALLY good stuff there, such as the Masters of Orion games, but even on GoG these are not the best Atari games … also, the deal is that you get 50% off if you buy it all, or 30% off individual games. Still not bad, but would be easily improved by including the recently added RPG games! Steam : 33% Off Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2! Still not a ‘bargain’ at just over $40, but this is the first sale I have seen for this game since it was released a year ago. Impulse Big 50% Off Sale Divinity II: Ego Draconis Sacred 2: Fallen Angel … and more! GamersGate Has yet another big sale – with prices slashed on 36 games from 15% – 60%, and including stuff like the Hearts of Iron II Complete collection for $9.99! Direct2Drive For the weekend D2D are having a ’15% off action games’ with more than 500 games included! And just to reiterate, Spiderweb Software 15th Anniversary Sale From Jeff Vogel’s Blog It was fifteen years ago that fledgling Indie game developer Spiderweb Software released its first game out into the wild.

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Gear Games Deals: Weekend Sales at Direct2Drive, Impulse, Atari ‘Classics’ at GoG, and more!

It’s that time of the month again folks, great event this Sunday in NYC: Handmade Music ! Peter Kirn writes: We promise music you can dance to, music you can’t, and tapas (at least in NYC). And on October 10, a little secret will finally be revealed to Manhattan and the world. If you’re a citizen of The Internet, we’ve got lots of sounds and creations to explore here on The Web from the comfort of Your Home – scroll on below. There are even great projects you can build anywhere in the world. For New Yorkers, the lineup on Sunday: Immersive music made with game engines, featuring foci + loci (Tamara Yadao + Chris Burke) doing strange and wonderful things with the likes of Halo and Little Bit Planet .

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MAKE pal Steve Cooley, who manufactures the Beatseqr hardware performance controller, has posted the lab notes from his recent experiments with various silicone products for casting monolithic soft button arrays. I love it when people do this–the steps and missteps that happen along the way are often as interesting, and as helpful, as the finished product. More: Road From Maker Faire 2010: beatseqr/steppa wrapup The Road to Maker Faire: beatseqr Beatseqr – Arduino based interface for music Read the Full Story

Reports are coming in from major UK retailers that HTC’s latest and greatest, the Desire HD and Desire Z , have both been delayed. These phones were supposed to launch in the first half of October, but now it seems like they will barely make October and ship at the very end of the month. Customers who’ve pre-ordered either device and inquired to their respective retailer have gotten pretty much the exact same response: the smartphones are delayed due to “Google testing” or “Google Type Approval”. Apparently this is a process that all Android devices must go through, and HTC has been known to have such delays in the past – with the Desire, for example. What you see above is a screengrab from Superetrader, one UK retailer

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HTC Desire HD and Desire Z are delayed