Tag Archives: ipad

iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

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Apple’s iBooks Praises Begin To Wither As Skepticism Settles In

Apple started off 2012 with the $10 billion textbook market in its crosshairs. Last week, the company unveiled iBooks 2, [...]

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Is the iPad the Future of Education? Students in Palm Beach Florida Find Out

Failing national school system? iPad might have an App for that. The Palm Beach School District in Florida finished their [...]

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TouchFire – The Keyboard Your iPad Has Been Waiting For

Perfect design is like Big Foot– maybe it exists, but it rarely gets seen. Steven Isaac and Brad Melmon may [...]

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iPad: “All Your Cash Registers Are Belong To Us”

Part of the magic of the iPad is that we keep coming up with new ways in which it can [...]

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Games, Pop-Ups, 3D, and More – The iPad is Changing Books Forever

I grew up on a healthy regimen of Choose-Your-Own Adventure books, Nintendo, and role playing games, but even I am [...]

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Set Phasers on Stun For Disappointing New Star Trek App (video)

Going from Enterprise-A in the original Star Trek to Enterprise-D in The Next Generation was like trading in your bulky [...]

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Pixar Ex-Designer Creates Stunning Interactive Book for iPad. Blurs Lines Between Books, Film, Games

What do you do after conquering Pixar, Disney, and Dreamworks? You revolutionize tablet reading, of course. Designer William Joyce created [...]

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Maine Schools Give iPads To All Kindergarten Students (video)

Starting kindergarten is a milestone in a kid’s life as it signifies the start of formal education. But as of [...]

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Experience The Civil War As It Unfolds In A Daily Newspaper With New iPad App (video)

I opened up the newspaper this morning to find out that the president was in D.C. to witness a demonstration [...]

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An Inside Look Into The Amazon.com Warehouses (video)

What do you do when the CEO wants you to build a delivery system for pretty much anything that will [...]

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XWave iPhone Accessory Channels Your Brain Waves into iPhone

Do your friends complain that you can’t pull your eyes away from your iPhone? Well, if you get the new [...]

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Kindle Rocks in 2010, Survives the iPad

2010 could easily have been the year that the Kindle died a quiet death, buried alongside fellow victims of the [...]

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Motorola Taunts iPad, Prepares to Reveal its Tablet (video)

The age of the tablet has been almost entirely dominated by the iPad, and that isn’t for lack of competitors. [...]

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Holy Crap! – The $8 Million iPhone 4

Forget about accelerating technology, let’s talk accelerating prices. ‘Luxury designer’ Stuart Hughes has just released his version of the iPhone [...]

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Kurzweil’s Blio Finally Launches – Here Is A First Look (FAIL)

Today K-NFB Reading Technology, backed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, officially released its highly anticipated Blio e-book platform for download to [...]

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Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future

Typing on the iPhone is like squeezing sausages into a soda can – you can get it to work, but [...]

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New Study: You Read Slower on Kindle, iPad than with Print

New e-readers like the Kindle or the iBook app on the iPad may put an entire library in your hands, [...]

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Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medications—Literally

Dispensing medicine is about to get more efficient. New Jersey’s Holy Name Hospital is using robot pharmacists to package, store [...]

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Hospital Orders 100 iPads – Is it the Doctor’s Pad of the Future? (video)

What do you get for a doctor that wants to help their patients and look trendy while doing it? How [...]

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Ipad Mania: Apple Releases Ten Ipad Guided Tour Videos

With the release of the Apple ipad just days away consumer speculation and interest in the device is rampant.  Demand [...]

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First Ipad Commercial Aired During Oscars – Check It Out

The first official commercial for the Apple ipad aired today during the Oscars.  You can criticize or praise the ipad [...]

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Steve Jobs’ iPad Keynote Speech (Video)

Most of us probably weren’t able to make it to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco [...]

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Apple iPad Website is Live

The Apple Tablet, aka the iPad, was just debuted a few moments ago, but its associated website is already up [...]

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Apple Announces Tablet To Be Called ipad – Looks Beautiful, Pricing Starts $499

Well, the Applet tablet is finally official, and it even has name…ipad!  Steve Jobs is on stage at the Yerba [...]

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