Apple’s Magic Trackpad isn’t the first of its kind — in fact, Wacom has been playing this game for awhile — but it’s the first of its kind from the cats in Cupertino, so obviously people take notice. The premise of such a device is stupidly simple: it’s a laptop trackpad that lives on your desktop. Over the past few years, there have been rumors that Steve Jobs has his sights set on eliminating buttons from Apple products altogether, and this certainly feels like the next step in the plan. But does it make sense? Is this an improvement over standard input devices like a mouse or trackball? More importantly, in the age of iPads and netbooks, does anyone even need an external input device like this? We’re going to try and answer those questions (and more), so read on for our full review!
Pandas, East Asia, wood. Nope, “laptop” hasn’t ever been on the list of words we typically associate with “bamboo,” but ASUS sure has us willing to tack it on with the introduction of its U Bamboo Series. The company’s newest 13-inch U33Jc is covered in one of the most durable and recyclable materials on earth, and its internals are made of equally strong parts. Sure, the laptop looks incredibly traditional, but the $999 machine actually packs an incredible amount of new technology, including a fresh Core i3 processor, NVIDIA Optimus enabled graphics, USB 3.0 and Intel’s wireless display technology. It’s truly one of the most impressive laptops we’ve heard about in the last few months, but a few gripes hold it back from being the killer laptop it could be. Intrigued? Bamboozled? Hit the break for our full review.
What’s this, another way to capture for posterity the extremeness of our helmet-requiring pastimes? Yes indeed, a new player has entered the increasingly crowded POV/action/helmet camera market, the Drift Innovations HD170, offering 1080p recording in a durable case that stands poised to take on GoPro’s HD Hero and VHoldr’s ContourHD 1080p. However, the built-in color LCD here lets you do something you just can’t do on either of those two: check your footage on the camera itself. Does this make up for some of the cam’s other shortcomings? Read on to find out.
You’d think after running into ASUS’s next generation Eee PC 1018P and 1015PE over five months ago at CeBIT, our excitement may have waned for the stylish netbooks. Oh, but it’s actually the opposite, and when the brand new netbooks arrived last week, we grabbed the X-Acto knife (safely, of course) and eagerly unboxed them to see if the aluminum clad little laptops were as svelte as we’d remembered them. Sure, the $350 1018P and 1015PE have standard netbook internals (an Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7 Starter), but without a doubt they’re some of the best quality netbooks ASUS has made in quite a while. Hit that read more link for an in-depth look at these two, and to see if they’re all we had hoped for and more.
As we march forward into the high definition, 3D age, with smartphones that can do more than Star Trek imagined years ago, there’s a faction out there that’s trying to cling to the past. Bulkypix and Pastagames have teamed up to bring the ultimate retro-styled arcade game to your iPhone, Pix’n Love Rush. If you like old school retro games and are familiar with some history, you’ll appreciate what’s going on here. If not, you might be left scratching your head, so I’ll try to fill you in. The creators of Pix’n Love Rush have a series of books about old arcades, the history of Nintendo — which will play a role in Pix’n Love Rush later — so these guys know what they’re talking about. Basically, they tried to distill all the old experiences you may have had in the past and put it in one, slightly parodying game. Pix’n Love Rush has that wonderful old time “just one more try!” hook to it. An attempt that ended with me losing my last bit of health with four seconds to go followed by a fervent restarting of the game shows that you won’t let this game conquer you — you will conquer it! Rounding out the value here is the inclusion of OpenFeint leaderboards and achievements. Being able to have bragging rights is what old-school gaming is all about. Having this on a global scale is icing on a deliciously retro cake. If you were a gamer back in the 1980s, then picking up Pix’n Love Rush is a no-brainer. If you weren’t a part of that culture, however, download Pix’n Love Rush …
It’s all about the music! Alex takes a quick look at his favorite apps for tunes, spanning listening, making and reading music. Got any favorites that aren’t listed? Chime in at www.todaysiphone.com
Flipboard is a new, free application for the iPad which has one basic function: to take your social networking tools (read: Facebook and Twitter) and turn them into social “magazines.” As you can see from the screenshots — which are all culled from my Twitter stream — the application is very attractive. Read on for my full impressions.
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