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iPad dry erase board for sketching app designs

by Steven Sande (Apr 13th, 2011)

App designers love to sketch out designs of possible UI layouts. Over the years, we've seen stacks of iPhone and iPad templates printed out in book form to be used for drawing dream user interfaces, and now a company called UI Stencils has come ...

Apple sews up carbon fiber whiz, could lighter devices be in the works?

by Steven Sande (Apr 11th, 2011)

The aircraft industry is in the midst of a major change from building large passenger airplane structures from metal alloys to building those same structures out of composite materials like carbon fiber. The result? Aircraft that are much ...

EyeSee360's GoPano micro creates 360° panoramic iPhone 4 videos

by Steven Sande (Apr 8th, 2011)

Imagine shooting a video at a wedding with your iPhone 4. Later, as you're watching the video, you swipe across the screen and you can see everything that was going on -- the bride and groom repeating their vows, the faces of the people watching ...

40 iPads running SyncPad at once

by Steven Sande (Apr 7th, 2011)

SyncPad (US$9.99) is touted in the App Store as "the ultimate whiteboard for remote and local collaboration." That description really doesn't do justice to what SyncPad is designed for, which is sharing an iPad screen with one or many other ...

Paper iPad 2 sells out in Malaysia for use in afterlife rituals

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2011)

It appears that Apple isn't the only company having trouble keeping up with the huge demand for the iPad 2. Throughout Asia, many ethnic Chinese individuals are celebrating the Qingming Festival. During this festival, living relatives honor their ...

PLAYMOBIL™ Apple Store Play Set: Ignite Apple fandom in your kids

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2011)

Hey, your kids are probably going to spend a lot of time in Apple Stores in the future, so why not get them started early with the new PLAYMOBIL™ Apple Store Play Set? ThinkGeek (purveyor of fine April 1 products such as Lightsaber ...

Apple debuts iWarp: 'Interstellar travel for the rest of us'

by Chris Rawson (Apr 1st, 2011)

Apple has unveiled a revolutionary new product that promises to change the way we travel forever. Dubbed iWarp, Apple's latest creation is a matter-antimatter reactor only one inch thick that can transport a crew of seven humans to Alpha ...

World Backup Day: 1 TB hard drive giveaway from OWC

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

As the first World Backup Day winds down, we've got one last giveaway, but it's a doozy. If you've followed our urgent pleas for better backup behavior today, your patience may now be rewarded. Whether you back up to the cloud, to a local drive ...

World Backup Day: Ad-hoc backups to the cloud & more giveaways

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Happy World Backup Day! The only safe way forward is to back up; that's why we've joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today. As Steve mentioned earlier today, there are lots of cloud-based backup services ...

World Backup Day: Turn, turn, turn + more giveaways

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Happy World Backup Day! We can't really emphasize this strongly enough: you need good backups, and you need them now. That's why we've joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today. For Mac users running ...

Verizon launches 4G mobile hotspot

by Dana Franklin (Mar 30th, 2011)

Customers can now order the new Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot online or in Verizon Stores, Samsung and Verizon announced on Tuesday. The new mobile hotspot, which allows up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to connect to Verizon's 4G Long Term ...

No Comment: Dell exec dismisses iPad, can't count

by Steven Sande (Mar 30th, 2011)

Dell's global head of marketing Andy Lark spoke to CIO Australia this week, and he not only dissed Apple -- a company with a current market cap of $323.3 billion compared to Dell's measly $28.2 billion -- but also found some time to dream up some ...

Wedding proposed via engraved iPad 2

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2011)

We think this might be cheating a little bit, but we'll let you decide: 9to5Mac reader Jordan C. wrote in to say that he's proposed to his girlfriend courtesy of a custom-engraved iPad. He ordered one with "Will you marry me?" engraved on it, ...

Amex wants to Serve up money from your iPhone

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2011)

The ability to leave your wallet at home and pay -- or get paid -- for everything with your iPhone is a hot ticket for financial service providers, and today it got even hotter. Amex announced a new payment service called Serve that is ...

FaceTime is the star in The Blue Stones music video

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2011)

And now for something completely different: a music video featuring FaceTime on a pair of iPhone 4s. Canadian duo The Blue Stones created their video for the song "I'm A Stereo" using the iPhone 4s, FaceTime and strategically-placed duct tape. ...

iPad 2 coming to RadioShack March 29 (confirmed)

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2011)

The next time you're in RadioShack buying another radio-controlled monster truck to trick out with a Wi-Fi webcam and spy on your neighbors, you might want to keep your eyes open for something a bit more expensive -- an iPad 2. MacRumors is ...