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• Samsung Galaxy S II Hits 10 Million Sales Worldwide
  Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S II, has had a tremendously successful run with consumers since landing on U.S. shores, a prime example of Android's continued success in the smartphone market at large. Sales of the Samsung Galaxy S II have reached 10 million worldwide, doubling from 5 million sales in only eight weeks.
  09.26.11

• Toronto Comic Book Shop Claims to Be World's First for Kids
  Like many GeekDads and our readers, I frequently take my kids to the local comic book shops. Despite the fact that digital media is increasingly invading our household (including a growing appreciation for the iPad as a comic book reading platform), there's something to be said for the ambiance of the physical store: the browsing, ...
  09.26.11

• The Deck-Building Ascension on the iPad
  Earlier this summer I mentioned that the deck-building game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer was coming to the iPad and iPhone. I finally got to give it a shot recently. I think they've done a good job translating the game from cards to an app, but some of my original reservations about the game still ...
  09.25.11

• The Kid-Friendly Tablet -- LeapFrog's LeapPad
  One of those futuristic devices that I so wish existed today is A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer -- if you're not familiar with it, go grab a copy of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, one of my favorites of his stories, and start reading.  Although it's mainly used as a ...
  09.24.11

• iOS Developers Reporting In-App Purchasing Outage
  A key security feature of Apple's in-app billing feature for iOS apps has been down since Thursday night, making it difficult for app developers to verify legitimate sales and leaving some of them worried they're losing money.
  09.23.11

• Neal Stephenson's Reamde: Baroque or Bloated?
  Neal Stephenson's Reamde opens with a target practice session at the Forthrast clan's annual Thanksgiving gathering. Various firearms -- shotguns, Glocks, assault rifles -- are discharged by uncles, nephews, nieces and boyfriends into an Iowa pasture. Fun for the whole family. The spasm of gunfire is prophetic. By the time Stephenson's world-girdling novel has reached its exhaustive ...
  09.23.11

• Horn Bike: iPhone Speaker and Bike Mount Combined
  This is the Horn Bike iPhone case from Bone, and you can probably guess from the name exactly what it does. Your iPhone 4 slides into the silicone sleeve and a Velcro strap secures it to the handlebars of your bike. So far, so ordinary. The neatness comes from the 'horn' part, which is in fact ...
  09.23.11

• Epson Megaplex Projector With Speakers and iPhone Dock
  When held at movie-watching distance from my face, my iPad's screen appears bigger than any of my friends' TVs, all of which are on the other side of the room. But with more than two people watching a film, things can get a little crowded. Enter Epson's Megaplex MG-850HD, an LCD projector with a pop-out ...
  09.23.11

• Levitatr: A Smooth Keyboard With Pop-Out Keys
  James Stumpf dreamed of an iPad with physical keys which would rise, magically, from the glass itself. Of course, this is a ridiculous dream, but that didn't stop James from striving to make it real. The result is the Levitatr, a sleek slab of aluminum and polycarbonate from which -- you guessed it -- the ...
  09.23.11

• Brompton Reveals Mysterious 'Project X': The eBrompton
  Oh, man. First Bob Dylan went electric, and now Brompton. The London-based folding bike maker has at last revealed the truth behind its long (and somewhat tedious) "Project X" teaser campaign: An eBrompton. The information is still just dribbling from the company, though. Little more has been revealed than that the bike will have a small ...
  09.23.11

• Review: Gears of War 3
  The storyline of the Gears of War trilogy has finally brought us its final act! One of the most exciting gameplay experiences ever designed, the third piece in the Gears of War story once again hands the player the torch for saving humanity from the Locust hordes that threaten to destroy the planet Sera and ...
  09.22.11

• HP Looks Set to Fire Fired CEO Léo Apotheker. Now What?
  After a string of disappointing quarters, Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker killed the Palm hardware unit and proposed spinning off personal computing to focus the company on enterprise software. Now HP's board looks set to kill Apotheker's tenure to focus the company on finding new leadership. Early reports that HP's board was meeting to oust Apotheker and ...
  09.22.11

• DockBoss Lets You Plug Anything Into iPhone Docks
  Problem: You own an Android phone, but you live in an iPhone world. Every device, from cars through speakers to refrigerators comes with a 30-pin dock connector. Solution: The DockBoss. This adapter lets you take anything with a 3.5mm jack and hook it up to an iPhone dock, including your Android phone or even your Zune. Inside ...
  09.22.11

• Awesome: Real-Life Electric Tron Lightcycle
  Custom chopper builders Parker Brothers have managed to pull the Tron lightcycle out of its CGI home and into the real world. The amazing build is 100% electric, and can hit 100mph. It even has the glowing blue lights of the original, but sadly can't turn 90-degrees instantaneously like the "real" thing. [HTML1] The bike runs on ...
  09.22.11

• Rear-View Bike Camera: Why?
  You know how you check what's going on behind you when you ride a bike? You look over (or under) your shoulder, that's how. And for the stiff-necked, a cheap mirror will do the job just fine. What you don't need is a $180 camera and LCD screen. It looks like somebody forgot to tell the ...
  09.22.11

• Report: Apple Board Member Al Gore Says iPhones (Plural) Coming in October
  At the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit, taking place today, Al Gore is reported to have given an offhanded comment shedding light onto when we'll be seeing Apple's next major product(s) debut.
  09.21.11

• Help NASA Build Smartphone Apps
  NASA wants you and your smartphone to help it address global problems. On Sept. 20, the agency announced the International Space Apps Competition asking scientists, engineers, and ordinary citizens to develop apps that use publicly released scientific data to study things like weather-related hazards and other pressing issues.
  09.21.11

• Tim Cook to Host iPhone 5 Event on October 4th
  Waiting for the iPhone 5? Then you might want to put Tuesday, October 4th in your diary. According to All Things D, this is the date Apple has scheduled for the new iPhone's launch. The event, revealed to All Things D by "sources close to the situation," will be presided over by Apple's new CEO ...
  09.21.11

• Pick Up Artist, the Best-Named Cargo Bike Ever
  You'd be forgiven for thinking that the best thing about Soma's new cargo bike was its name: the Pick Up Artist. But even with such an awesome moniker, the bike itself is even better. Like other cargo bikes, the Pick Up Artist has a long wheelbase for stability. Unlike other cargo bikes, it achieves this length ...
  09.21.11

• Book Creator for iPad Makes E-Book Publishing Easy
  The iPad is just for content consumption, right? It looks like somebody forgot to send that memo to the folks at Red Jumper. Their app -- Book Creator -- lets you quickly and easily make e-books on your iPad and export them ready to read in iBooks, or to submit for sale in the iBooks ...
  09.21.11

• Intel's Next-Gen Chips to Support Super High-Res Displays
  If you dream of having brilliant, iPhone 4-like displays on your notebooks and tablets, you may see it become a reality sooner than you think. Intel's latest chips will provide support for an ultra-high resolution display, according to information seen in a slide presentation about the company's upcoming "Ivy Bridge" processors during the company's developer ...
  09.20.11

• Hulu Plus Now Works on More Android Devices
  Popular television show streaming service Hulu Plus is now available on a host of new Android devices, according to a statement issued by the company on Tuesday. The service will now be available on eight more devices than before, including three Motorola phones, three HTC devices and two LG phones. Hulu Plus -- the paid ...
  09.20.11

• T-Mobile Exec Says Network Won't Get iPhone 5 This Year
  Update: This story was updated with comment from T-Mobile September 20, 2011 at 4:15 p.m. PST. Sorry, T-Mobile customers: The outlook on Apple products coming to the wireless network soon is not so good. "We are not going to get the iPhone 5 this year," T-Mobile's chief marketing officer Cole Brodman said in a town hall ...
  09.20.11

• 4 iPhone/iPad Apps to Help With Homework
  With our kids settled back into their new school year, I've teamed up with a few local families to dig up some iPad/iPhone apps to help with the new term. I know there are lots of apps for students of all different ages, but the problem I always have is finding ones that are a good ...
  09.20.11

• Burton Wireless iPod-Controlling Gloves Cost More than an iPod
  I might never have been near a snowboard, but I can see how these iPhone-remote gloves from Burton could be really, ahem, handy. The Burton Mix Master Glove/Mitt doubles as a wireless controller for your iDevice while the phone itself sits safely inside a cozy, warm pocket. Instead of running cables through clothes, the Mix Master ...
  09.20.11

• Review: Goliath Concludes the Excellent Steampunk Leviathan Trilogy
  It seems like more and more "Young Adult" novels come out that are crafted, whether deliberately or not, to appeal to many not-so-young adults, too. When my family came across Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan in the bookstore last year, I had high hopes it would fit that category, as it was a steampunk alternate history of ...
  09.20.11

• Mac-Matching HDD Enclosure With Glowing Apple Logo
  Got an old 2.5-inch hard drive lying around but don't know what to do with it? Or worse, you have a fully-functioning external drive but its just too hideous to remove from the closet (<cough> Lacie </cough>)? Well, if you are also a Mac owner, there's good news for you in the shape of the ...
  09.20.11