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My first question about this product was whether the toggling fingers would put too much pressure on your precious chip, and strangely enough the answer came when I watched the video above and could clearly make out the words “No Broken” before morphing back into a language I don’t understand. So now you will have the Potechi Bionic Grabber, a bionic Japanese hand that can be used to conveniently feed yourself potato chips while preventing grease prints from infecting everything you touch; at least until you get to that huge pocket of crumbs at the bottom of the bag.

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Your Chip Eating Hand From Japan

With the announcement of Apple’s new iPad, the company announced a new store called the iBooks Store, where users will be able to purchase and download books. Alongside the store comes a new app called iBooks that turns the iPad into an eBook reader. The iBooks app comes with a virtual bookshelf where users can choose a book to read. Once a book is chosen, the view is akin to an actual book with extraneous items on the side of the book to mimic a real-life experience.

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This whole time we’ve been wondering how we’ll really get any typing done on Apple’s new iPad , and at last we have the answer: an optional keyboard dock! No word on price yet, or whether this will be available at launch — we’d say “eat your heart out, netbooks” but we won’t, because they shouldn’t. In even better news, however, the device will also work with standard Bluetooth keyboards like Apple’s own wireless QWERTY slabs. Additionally, Apple will be selling a “camera connection kit” to allow you to plug your camera in over USB or use an SD card to import pictures.

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After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple’s finally unveiled the iPad. It’s a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4″ chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It’ll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it’s got the expected connectivity: very little

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Folks were a bit disappointed early on in the iPad announcement when it started to sound like it’d be WiFi only – but there was a twist! Late in the show, Steve Jobs announced that there will be 3G-enabled models. While Apple specifically named AT&T as the carrier who will offer up the 3G, he also stated that all iPads will be sold unlocked. It relies on GSM microSIMs – so while you’ll be able to take it around the world, don’t expect to take it over to Verizon or any other CDMA carrier. The pricing of 3G through AT&T is a bit strange; you can pick up 250 Megabytes of data for the stupidly expensive price of $14.99, or unlimited data for the surprisingly cheap price of $30. There is no contract whatsoever.

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Apple announces unlocked iPads with AT&T 3G support

The New York Times stood up on stage with Apple, announced a new version of “digital journalism” and demonstrated their new app, it looked like a page of a real paper. You can watch videos, favourite or send on individual…

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iPad and its media partners: newspapers, books

Rendering a classic boredom reliever as time-killing iPhone app, iCardToss lets you toss virtual cards into virtual hats (or a bucket if you prefer) for points. You get your choice of three backgrounds and three targets and of course a deck of cards. Your objective is to score as many points as possible by landing as many cards as possible inside the target hat or bucket

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Alongside Apple’s new media device called the iPad , the company also released a new multi-touch version of iWork that works specifically with the iPad. The new iWork includes all new versions of Keynote, Pages, Numbers. Keynote : $9.99 Using your fingers, slides can be dragged and dropped around in the multi-touch version of Keynote, easily allowing users to create new presentations. Keynote also runs in landscape because the slides are in landscape. Users can also resize and move elements by tapping and dragging, similar to how users would use a mouse by clicking and dragging

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Apple Announces Multitouch iWork Software For iPad

In a direct blow to everyone else with a netbook and an unlimited data plan, AT&T has scored a deal to offer unlimited 3G data on 3G-capable versions of the iPad for $29.99 a month (then again, this is the same as an iPhone plan, and you’re getting iPhone-level capability here). A 250MB plan, meanwhile, will be available for half that at $14.99 a month. Activation can happen right on the device — no store visits or calls are necessary — and there’s no contract involved. The device is fully unlocked, so if you absolutely want to, you’re welcome to take it to any other GSM carrier of your choice (assuming you can find a SIM that works — Apple’s talking up a new “micro SIM” for it).

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Apple iPad 3G service plans on AT&T, $30 for unlimited data

iPad will ship with 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G optional · Apple announces “iBooks” application for iPad · iPhone apps will run on the iPad · Eleventh hour rumors brew new details on Apple’s tablet · McGraw-Hill CEO: “The tablet is going to be …

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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

I am married to someone who has a unique gift (well many actually but there’s one in particular that that’s relevant to this post). Most of the time she only needs to meet someone once in order to remember them, remember enough details to contact them again in the future and to be able to share that information if need be. And if she has a chance to sit with someone for a half hour … she pretty much knows their entire life story — accurately and pretty much forever. I don’t have that gift. As much as I try I’m not great with names until the second or third time I’ve met someone. (After that, however, I am fine.) And the details?

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NameCatcher and NameCatcher Biz iPhone App Reviews

In case you missed it back in June, the Palm Pre was rooted by extracting the Root ROM from a Palm tool used to reset a device with damaged software. A lot has been learned from examining the code inside that ROM but we’re most amused by one thing in particular. If you grew up in the 80’s there’s a pretty good chance you know the Konami Code by heart. So did the developers of WebOS, the firmware running on the Palm Pre.

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NES lovers grew up and now they’re coding for Palm

Apps on the iPhone app store will upgrade seamlessly to the iPad. They simply size up and don’t need to be rebuilt to work on this new platform. Steve Jobs demoed Youtube in HD and a location sensitive Maps application…

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iPad will run all iPhone and iPod apps with no need for rebuilding

Stop by Make:NYC’s 17th meeting for some balsa bridge building and maker show and tell. Ryan writes: I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m sick of this cold weather hampering my structure-building! Support us and give us your truss! Show up for Meeting 17! Challenge: Balsa Bridge Construction It’s the classic physics-challenge you all know and love. Teams will construct balsa spans built to support the greatest possible weight. Teams will be supplied with balsa, glue and cutting utensils. We recommend everyone do their homework for this meeting.

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Make:NYC meeting February 4th

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

Here at Full Comment, you’ll find an eclectic mix of commentary on news, politics and pop culture — plus the occasional dig at a Star or Globe pundit who’s gone off the rails.

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Well, it looks like it’s not all just fun and games for Apple’s new iPad — the company has also just announced an edition of its iWork software suite for the device. That, of course, includes versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote that have been “completely reimagined for iPad,” which will be available individually for $9.99 apiece, and are each basically what you’d expect from iPad versions of the desktop applications. It’s iWork you can touch, if you will. Don’t miss our hands-on coverage ! Gallery: Apple announces iWork for iPad Apple announces iWork for iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST

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BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM )’s official Facebook page had accidentally let slip that the Tour 9650 would be coming soon (and promptly pulled the message). If you hadn’t heard of the Essex, the 9650 will basically be an updated Tour 9630, except it will have Wi-Fi and a trackpad. The device isn’t a huge surprise, since it had been bubbling up in Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) and Sprint ( NYSE: S ) inventory systems , posed for pictures , and even got a nod from Sprint’s CEO .

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Official: BlackBerry Tour 9650 Coming Soon

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