Looking For A Classy Or Offbeat iPad Case? Here Are 16. Look, sometimes you just have to take a break and skim Etsy for cool iPad stuff.
Are you thinking of picking up a new iPad 3 when they come out, or maybe just celebrating the release with a cool new case for your existing tablet? Check out this little round-up of cases collected by a felt-loving blogger on a Friday afternoon. These are mostly iPad-sized, but many are made to order and could easily accommodate a smaller (Kindle Fire) or larger (Transformer) device if you ask nicely. And most are soft enough to accommodate a small change in size, like what’s expected for the iPad 3. Note that I have not tried these out! Felt & Leather. Street Lights of the Future Will Be Powered by the Sun and Wind. Finder – RFID Locator by Chu Wang, Qiujin Kou, Qian Yin & Yonghua Zhang. Key Control Finder is a two-part RFID Locator comprising of the main terminal and tab stickers.
Basically you are supposed to stick the tracking stickers to objects that you tend to misplace often, like keys, phone, wallet etc. Configure the sticker with the appropriate label on the main terminal and you are set to use it. No more lost keys again, yay! Designers: Chu Wang, Qiujin Kou, Qian Yin & Yonghua Zhang. Zipbuds enter into second generation goodness. Many of us enjoy our music on the go thanks to the sheer number of devices these days that offer MP3 playback (in addition to other audio file formats, of course), and this has directly caused the peripherals market to grow by leaps and bounds – especially when you take the number of headphones or earbuds that are in the market at the moment.
Unless you do not want to take the wireless route, chances are pretty good that the pair of headphones or earbuds you use will end up in a tangled mess if not properly taken care of. The Razor that Oprah Uses to Shave her Legs. YouTube. Welcome to ApenUSA.com. Biz Café by Youri Hong, Moonhwan Park & Hyoshin Kim. More Than a Cyber Café I’m embarrassed to admit it but I was one of the first people to criticize the concept of cyber cafés and even bet they wouldn’t last.
To cut the story short, I had to swallow my words and I’m here to make amends. What we have here is the Biz Café – a concept targeted towards the jet-set workaholics who need gadget ready environments even while relaxing with a cup of coffee. Think about it, most restaurants and glitzy places in town have access to our social profile and instantly ping the world with a status update! So yes, in the future we will need a semi-office environment, even in cafés, so that we don’t lose out on work! Applications - Professional - Straightening out brass instruments. Ferrari Millenio by Marko Petrovic. The Ferrari Millenio, as the name might allude, is a futuristic super-car concept that features a complex combination of materials and technologies that we can hope will become a serious reality before the end of the next millenium.
Constrained Ball: Easy to Draw Straight Lines - The Resident Architect. How To Write Your First Book In iBooks Author. If you have ever wanted to write a book and get it published, Apple’s latest— and possibly game changing software–iBooks Author might very well be the easiest and fastest way to get it done.
Apple recently introduced iBooks Author in a live presentation at the Guggenheim in New York. The software is aimed at textbook writers and publishers, but it can just as well be used for producing cookbooks, picture books, interactive fiction novels, how-to books, and the like. iBooks Author looks to be the first consumer-based e-Pub software designed for multimedia books. Feature Overview E-books designed with iBooks Author are basically geared to be read on the iPad platform using the recently updated iBooks 2 reader app. iBooks Author books can however be exported to PDF format, and to plain text format—excluding the embedded images and other media. If you’re familiar with Apple’s desktop publishing application, Pages, you’ll feel at home with iBooks Author.
Extra Features iPad Preview. Coolest GADGEST. By Mark R About a few years ago, I reported on a video that Microsoft made showing what the future could be like.
This is apparently the new version of this video. The video, which can be viewed after the jump, is half propaganda for Microsoft and the other half a realistic view of the future. There is a definite emphasis on mobile technology being thinner, as the tablets and mobile phones are as skinny as credit cards. Just When You Thought All the Good Ideas Were Taken.
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Wacom Americas. 5 Incredible Flexible Gadget Technologies. We have seen the future of gadgets, and many of them will be flexible.
Whether it be cell phones, like the Samsung Galaxy Skin (above), or laptops, there will be something for everyone. Continue reading to see five of the most incredible flexible gadget technologies. HackerThings: Products for the discerning hacker. Striiv: Personal Trainer In Your Pocket. Silverlit I/R Spy Camera Helicopter.