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• Snazzy iPhone Mod Illuminates Apple Logo
  An iPhone 4 mod sets the Apple logo on your phone aglow whenever the screen lights up, much as the logo on a MacBook lights up when opened. From the pictures, it looks pretty slick.
  09.12.11

• Book Publishers Should Be Wary of Amazon's Subscription Plans
  What if a $79/year subscription to Amazon Prime didn't just buy you faster shipping for hardcovers and small appliances, and free streaming for old movies and TV shows? What if it also let you read entire books from a similarly curated back catalog? Several executives speaking anonymously to the Wall Street Journal report that Amazon has approached book publishers about doing exactly that.
  09.12.11

• 2 Monstrously Educational Pop-Up Books
  Templar Books recently sent me two brand-new pop-up books which are both excellent, even though one deals with the imaginary and the other is non-fiction. Both books showcase some very nice tactile features, and are bound to entertain (and educate!) your kids. The Monstrous Book of Monsters (allegedly by monster scientist Dr. Thomas Jelly) is a ...
  09.12.11

• The Geekly Reader: Amulet 4: The Last Council
  A year ago when the third book of the Amulet series came out, I said I couldn't wait until the next book. I think the biggest disappointment while reading it was realizing that I had to wait again before I could continue the story. Well, the wait is over! Amulet #4: The Last Council arrived ...
  09.11.11

• Kerfuffle! Is the Best Kind of Disturbance
  Overview: Place your dice on the grid to form series or groupings of like dice, follow the instructions on the cards and be the first to get rid of all of your dice to win! Players: 2-4 Ages: The box says eight and up, but my guess is that players as young as six could enjoy this ...
  09.10.11

• Greenbelt Festival Engages Families With High and Low Tech
  Festivals often struggle to know how to accommodate families. It¿s expensive and complicated to provide childcare and offering children¿s entertainment can often mean running two festivals on the same site: one for adults and one for kids (perhaps with a third stream for youth). Greenbelt Festival (the UK-based art, faith and justice festival that has been ...
  09.10.11

• Never Lose Your Keys, Phone, or Other Portable Valuables With Cobra Tag
  If you've ever experienced the panic of leaving behind your phone in a coffee shop or misplacing your keys when you're late for work, you'll be interested to learn about Cobra Tag, a 2-way communication device and alarm from Cobra Electronics. The heart of the system is a fob that can be attached to a laptop ...
  09.10.11

• Ever-Popular iPhone Named Top Smartphone. Again
  The iPhone undoubtedly is among the most popular phones ever, and yet another survey shows it continues resonating with consumers. In J.D. Powers' semi-annual customer satisfaction survey, Apple's iPhone takes the top spot yet again, making it the top smartphone brand five years running.
  09.09.11

• 10 Things Parents Should Know about Warrior
  The film was directed by Gavin O'Connor and released by Lions Gate Entertainment. The screenplay was written by Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis and Cliff Dorfman. It stars Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte and Joel Edgerton. 1. What's it about? Two brothers, born into an Irish-American Pittsburgh family. Hailing from different backgrounds, they reunite after a long, estranged ...
  09.09.11

• Folding Bike Concept Probably Inspired By Shopping Cart, Stationary Cycle
  Good lord! What on Earth were Weiche Wu and Minhan Lin thinking when they came up with this absurd concept. design for a folding bike? Perhaps the goal was to make a bike so tall and with a wheelbase so short that only a child with very long legs (think Kermit, only human) could ride ...
  09.09.11

• Could the Big-Screen 'iPhone 5' Be the iPad Nano?
  The rumors around the upcoming iPhone 5, expected to be announced this month, are swirling like Quidditch players around a Quaffle. The iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen, smaller bezel, lozenge shaped home button and be thinner than the current iPhone. Or maybe Apple will revamp the iPhone 4 into an iPhone 4S, like ...
  09.09.11

• The Post-Jobs era: Tim Cook Brings Philanthropy Back To Apple
  For all his fame and fortune, Steve Jobs has what some consider to be a blight on his record: a lack of public philanthropic activity. Andrew Ross Sorkin laid it all out just last week, but the issue has long been discussed and debated. Why wouldn't Jobs join Bill Gates and ...
  09.08.11

• Samsung Vitality Brings Android, Music to Cricket
  Listen up, music-loving tightwads: Samsung is offering the Vitality, an Android 2.3 smartphone, to budget-carrier Cricket. It features Muve Music, Cricket's exclusive -- and unlimited -- music service. Muve currently has more than 200,000 subscribers, and deals with EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music, among others, so its reservoir of available music could be ...
  09.08.11

• Multiplayer Max Payne 3 Set For March Release
  The third installment in the popular Max Payne shooter series will arrive on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 this March, publisher Rockstar said on Thursday. Unlike its predecessors, which were both based in a noir version of New York City, Max Payne 3 will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The game will also feature ...
  09.08.11

• Going Marbles Over Marble iPad Apps
  Sometimes you wonder what the point is of taking a perfectly good activity that you enjoy in the real world and taking it into the digital realm through a touchscreen device. But when something turns digital that you were never very good at and gives you a new experience and a new competence due to ...
  09.08.11

• Handy Rubber-Band-Inspired iPhone Case
  Belkin doesn't make this Belkin-branded iPhone case, but it should do. It's a concept design from Yoori Koo, and is the functional equivalent of wrapping a couple of rubber bands around your phone, only it doesn't obscure the display. Koo's Elasty case is much like any other bumper-with-a-back style case, encasing the iPhone's squared-off body in ...
  09.08.11

• Dead Island Promised The World, and Falls (Predictably) Short
  Dead Island may have turned out to be a middle-tier game, but I've enjoyed the hoopla and conversations that it's inspired. In case you missed it, this is the game that came to fame through a CGI trailer depicting a little girl falling prey to a Zombie disease and then attacking her dad -- rough watching ...
  09.08.11

• Holy Moly! Adobe 'Lightroom' for iOS
  Oh man. Apple's PhotoStream can suck it. Adobe has just announced Carousel, an app which puts the Lightroom/Camera RAW rendering engine on the iPad and iPhone, and also lets you edit your photos and sync those edits between all your devices, automatically. Carousel doesn't sync with your existing Lightroom library. Instead, you install the free Carousel ...
  09.08.11

• Classic Cursor Stylus Takes the Tablet Back in Time
  For those who miss the decades-old aesthetics of that half-arrow, or link-clicking pointer finger, there's the Big Big Arrow and Big Big Pointer styluses. They, like most models, have a rubber tip designed to point with accuracy, but glide across the glass for drawing and scrolling. Both are magnetic and can adhere to the screen's rim, Apple ...
  09.07.11

• Gaming in the 3rd Dimension With Origin PC
  Sometimes lessons in economics and the harsh reality of toiling away as one of many cogs in the great machine is enough to create that rare spark of entrepreneurship (even more rare when successful). This is exactly what happened to Richard Cary, Hector Penton and Kevin Wasielewski, three co-workers and friends who were working for ...
  09.07.11

• RC Monster Truck, Controlled by Your Phone
  "Enjoy three hundred and sixty degrees of excitement, right from your hand." That's the promise of the AppSpeed Monster Truck, which -- apparently unlike any other RC vehicle -- is controlled by a handheld remote. In this case, the remote is an iPhone running the free AppSpeed app. Plug the RF dongle into the dock ...
  09.07.11

• Solved: MC Frontalot Is in the T-Shirt Business
  During PAX Prime I headed into a panel on Nerdcore Rap. It was kind of a history lesson, in a sense, but nothing that I already didn't know. It was moderated by young rapper and producer Klopfenpop. There was a who's-who of nerdcore rappers and producers along with him including, smack dab in the middle, ...
  09.07.11

• Hack: Table Lamp Built From Camera and Tripod
  What would make the perfect work lamp? A firm, steady base which can be adjusted to any height, and any surface? A multiply adjustable light which can be locked into any position? A big, bright lens which can throw the light wide or narrow? The answer to all of these is "yes," and all of them ...
  09.07.11

• iPhone 4 Still Tops the Smartphone Sales Charts
  With all the rumor and mayhem around the upcoming iPhone 5, we almost forgot that the iPhone 4 is still on the market, and doing great. T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, found the iPhone 4 leading the pack in smartphone sales despite being more than a year old and about to be eclipsed ...
  09.06.11

• Smartphones Shun Small With Ever-Bigger Screens
  For much of the mobile world, the emphasis is smaller, slimmer and lighter. But when it comes to smartphones, it seems bigger is better. A growing number of smartphone manufacturers are trying to distinguish themselves from the competition by giving their phones ever more spacious screens. It was definitely a trend at the big IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, one we first spotted at CES.
  09.06.11

• Amazon's Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet
  Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. Its potential in this space is simply off the charts: bigger than Apple's, bigger than Google's or Microsoft's.
  09.06.11

• Daedalus Touch Gets Big Update, Now My Favorite iPad Text Editor
  Daedalus Touch -- the writing app I keep in my iPad's dock -- has received a big update which adds new features and tweaks some annoyances. Despite being numbered v1.1, there's a lot of cool new stuff. As you will remember, Daedalus Touch tosses out the files and folders metaphor and replaces it with stacks of ...
  09.06.11