One of the greatest iPad apps – Flipboard – is now available for iPhone. Flipboard is a simple and stylish reader app that takes all your favourite feeds from popular news sites and blogs to your Facebook and Twitter streams, and compiles them into a user friendly interface allowing you to literally flip through everything.
Disney has just launched a brand new line of toys that really push the boundaries. These new toys are super geeky because they are made specifically to interact with your iPad. The toys are from the hit movie series Cars. You will need to buy one of the AppMates toys and get the specially designed iPad app.
Yes, Facebook are finally launching an official Facebook app for iPad. There is already an existing iPhone app, but iPad users have been craving a proper Facebook experience for ages.
HTC have announced that the much anticipated HTC Flyer tablet will be available in SA this week.
Two French software developers put together this cool app that makes use of the iPad 2′s front facing camera. The app tracks your face and adjusts the image on the iPad accordingly to create the illusion of depth. No glasses are required, the image merely tricks the brain into thinking there really is a 3D scene behind the glass screen.
Off-axis projection is used to adapt the perspective of the 3D images according to the position of one’s head. The technology has been dubbed “head coupled perspective” and has a similar effect to the Nintendo 3DS handheld console. The Nintendo 3DS, however works differently as it uses a custom screen that delivers seperate images to each eye to create the 3D effect. The head tracking app is available for iPad 2 and iPhone 4.
Yes you read that correctly. There is help for you, in the form of Mike Tyson. Check out his video below showing a fool proof way of breaking your Angry Birds addiction (it’s even iPad 2 compatible).
So you have undoubtably heard all the buzz about the Apple iPad 2. Before you jump on the bandwagon and buy an iPad 2, at least have a look at how it stacks up against some of the other leading tablets in this infographic:
Amnesia Razorfish has come out with a device that, apparently, has seamless integration between your smartphone and, well, whatever else you may be storing content on. This is what they have to say:
Following months of research and development, Amnesia Razorfish has replaced the typical ‘send and receive’ interface
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