In the Apple Event yesterday Apple announced a lot of new interesting features: iBooks 2, iTunes U, iBook Author and more. Above you can see a video Apple shoed at the Apples education event is underway at New York City Guggenheim Museum. In the video you can see that textbooks on iPad go way beyond the printed page. See how they bring learning material to life with video, audio, interactivity, and more. A hands on video by Engadget can be found after the break. » The Textbook Reinvented For iPad And Hands-On Video With Apple Digital Textbooks
It is almost the end of the review week and on day 6 I will review the Emergency Solar Charger which i received from BudgetGadgets, the Emergency Solar Charger can be used on all iPod/iPhone models. This little handy gadget can be used as a simple keychain and is available in white, black and green andonly cost $5,78. Read the full review after the break. » Review Week Day 6: Emergency Solar Charger From BudgetGadgets [review]
OnLive has just re-imagined what is possible on iPad with the OnLive Desktop app, and is available in the iTunes App Store for free. Launching a brand-new chapter for OnLive (and everyone), OnLive Desktop gives users instant access to a seamless Windows desktop experience, with full-featured Microsoft Office applications and 2 GB of free cloud storage for secure file access anywhere. Need to edit a Word doc with redlines and comments? No problem. Need to give some oomph to that PowerPoint deck for your meeting? Go for it: present animations and slide transitions, edit diagrams and embed videos. Desperate for a pivot table in Excel? Pivot away … Anything you can do on your office desktop, you will be able to do on your iPad—at home, in your hotel, anywhere. Check the movie after the break where you can see OnLive Desktop in action. » OnLive Desktop for iPad Now Available on App Store
G-Form, a company well known for delivering the most extreme electronics cases and athletic pads, launched an iPad clad solely in the companys 6oz Extreme Edge case into space and then let it free-fall back to Earth. The company released a stunning hi-def video Thursday where the nearly naked iPad is shown hanging above the Earth in the blackness of space. In the video, the iPad is lifted to over 100,000 feet by a weather balloon which bursts at altitude, then releasing the iPad to free-fall to Earth where it crash lands on a rocky hillside in the Nevada countryside. » iPad Survives 100,000+ Foot Fall From Space Near Area 51