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Source: Sci/Tech - Google News | 4 Apr 2010 | 3:35 am Science Attempts To Explain HeavenHugh Pickens writes "Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek about the thesis that heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event, but rather something that happens in your brain as you die. The thesis is based, in part, on a growing body of research around near-death experience. According to a 2000 article by Bruce Greyson in The Lancet, between 9 and 18 percent of people who have been demonstrably near death report having had an NDE. Surveys of NDE accounts show great similarities in the details, describing: a tunnel, a light, a gate or a door, a sense of being out of the body, meeting people they know or have heard about, finding themselves in the presence of God, and then returning, changed. Scientists have theorized that NDEs occur as a kind of physiological self-defense mechanism when, in order to guard against damage during trauma, the brain releases protective chemicals that also happen to trigger intense hallucinations. This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic. 'I came out into a golden Light. I rose into the Light and found myself having an unspoken interchange with the Light, which I believed to be God,' wrote one user of his experience under ketamine. 'Dante said it better,' writes Miller, 'but the vision is astonishingly the same.'"
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Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Apr 2010 | 1:10 am 3D viewer + The Elements for iPad = stereoscopic sciencepornJust got my Loreo Pixi 3D viewer with which to view those element detail shots in Theodore Gray's The Elements for iPad in 3D. Verdict: takes a little getting used to, for my eyes anyway, but after a...Source: RSS feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Apr 2010 | 12:46 am 3D viewer + The Elements for iPad = stereoscopic scienceporn
Read my earlier review of The Elements here ($13.99 for iPad, Touchpress), and you can buy the glasses here ($4.95 + S/H). Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photosbig6joe sends in an update to a morbid story we discussed last year: a California appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling, granting the family of an 18-year-old woman who was killed in a traffic accident in 2006 privacy rights and recourse against the California Highway Patrol. "In a case that highlights how the ease of online communication can overthrow both common sense and basic decency, a California appeals court has ruled that families have a right of privacy in the death images of their loved ones. In 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman was decapitated in a traffic accident. Two of the police officers who reported to the scene emailed photos of the woman's body to their friends and family one Halloween."
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We’ve given you the first plot details and pictures on Friday, but now the first trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife (aka Resident Evil 4) is online. It’s pretty cool (well, it shows more of the same), mentioning the movie was filmed with the “James Cameron / Vincent Pace Fusion Camera System”, the “World’s Most Advanced 3D Technology”. The movie will hit American theaters (both 3D and conventional) on September 10. Here’s the trailer (good quality, 2:04min.):
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Source: Gizmodo | 3 Apr 2010 | 9:36 pm Game Development In the Heart of AfricaPeace Corps Online writes "The Internet has been credited with 'flattening' the world economy, giving anyone anywhere with the requisite skills the opportunity to build a game or create an app on Facebook. Now the Mercury News reports on a new game for the iPhone called iWarrior. It was produced by two 26-year old developers in Africa, Eyram Tawiah (a Ghanan) and Wesley Kirinya (a Kenyan) who created every element of their game — the mechanics, the graphics, the music — overcoming considerable obstacles to develop their first product. The game is 'a feed 'em up game, not a shoot 'em up' says Tawiah where you 'defend your village by feeding and driving away the animals before they crash it and feed on your livestock and garden!' with threats including thundering elephants, mighty rhinos, swift cheetahs, and crafty hyenas. The developers' company, Leti, which means 'star' in the Ewe language, was nurtured by the philanthropic arm of San Francisco-based Meltwater Group, an Internet business services company, which in 2008 founded the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Accra, Ghana. 'We believe talent is everywhere,' says the Meltwater founder and CEO."
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Source: Slashdot | 3 Apr 2010 | 9:35 pm Footage Of Crysis Running On The iPad
No, Apple hasn’t secretly packed a state-of-the-art desktop graphics card into the groundbreaking device. We’re told the game is running on OTOY, a service that uses extremely fast computers in the cloud to handle the game’s graphics rendering and then streams the output to your computer via the web (which means your computer, or in this case, iPad, needs a relatively small amount of processing power to run the game).
In some senses, this isn’t terribly novel — last summer, we posted a video showcasing Crysis and Grand Theft Auto 4 running on a Samsung Omnia, and OTOY competitor OnLive has shown similar demos in the past. But games running on those small form factors have always seemed like impractical tech demos. This iPad footage, on the other hand, shows that the device has plenty of screen real estate to make gaming feasible. That said, there are still many questions about this cloud-based gaming model. We’ve reached out to OTOY for more details (and hopefully more footage). Information provided by CrunchBase      
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Source: Gizmodo | 3 Apr 2010 | 8:00 pm Oil seen near ship aground on Great Barrier ReefPatches of oil have been seen near a Chinese coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The Maritime Safety Queensland said in a statement Sunday that the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsTech | 3 Apr 2010 | 7:48 pm Apple iPad Launches on PCWorld Podcast 72 (PC World)PC World - After what feels like a decade of rumors, waiting, and speculation, the Apple iPad has finally hit the streets. PCWorld's editors have spent the day exploring it from nearly every angle, including smashing one to see how well it takes a beating. Listen in as we take off the gloves, cut through the hype, and talk seriously about Apple's latest creation. (Spoiler alert: There are some things we like, and a few things we hate.)Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Apr 2010 | 7:45 pm Help Me Get My Math Back?nwm writes "I am trying to refresh my math skills back to the point that I can take college-level statistics and calculus courses. I took everything through AP calculus in high school, had my butt kicked by college calculus, and dropped out shortly thereafter. Twenty+ years later, I need to take a few math courses to wrap up a degree. I've dug around some and found a few sites with useful information, but I'm hoping the Slashdot crowd can offer some good resources — sites, books, programs, online tutors, etc. I really don't want to have to take a series of algebra-geometry-trig 'pre-college' level courses (each at full cost and each a semester long) just to warm my brain up; I'd much rather find some resources, review, cram, and take the placement test with some confidence. Any suggestions?"
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Source: Gizmodo | 3 Apr 2010 | 7:33 pm iPad Versus the iPhone: Why I Donât Need Both--Yet
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NEW YORK — Apple rolled out the iPad Saturday to cheers from many early adopters (”To those who are asking, OMFG I LOVE THE iPAD” read one Tweet) and from Apple Store employees. The blue-shirted concierges were clapping in unison for and high-fiving customers who waited for hours to drop at least $500 for Apple’s “magical” tablet.
At the flagship 5th Avenue store in Manhattan — across the street from the storied Plaza Hotel and down the block from Tiffany’s and other high-end stores, who could only envy the business Apple was doing — hundreds of people were already in line at 8 am.
For more on Apple’s new tablet, check out Wired’s iPad full coverage page.
They were divided into two lines: not the haves and the have nots, but the have sooners and have laters. A reservation system — and the lack of any telco activation since the iPad being released today is Wi-Fi only — made for very smooth sailing. The doors opened at 9 sharp up and down the Atlantic coast and, in smaller markets like suburban Washington DC and San Francisco, the 50th person in line had his iPad in about 19 minutes.
When I returned to wait in the reservation line shortly after 10, it looked hopeless. But store employees checking customers’ reservations assured us at one point that “it would be only about 20 minutes.” That claim seemed impossible but turned out to be true.
And then, the years-long wait for an Apple tablet was over.
So, what is the iPad? It is at once less than a computer, and more. It’s familiar enough to help us accept it, and innovative enough to guide us into different ways of doing things. Indeed, it is perfectly-crafted to guide us into a new-media way of life that Apple hopes to sell us, and away from the old media ways which still work (and are definitely cheaper).
As a leading entry into the e-book 2.0 sweepstakes, the iPad will have to wean people off dedicated devices and entice paper-lovers with its wiles, which include carrying your reading library around with you like you do your music, and adding to it on an impulse.
As a newspaper replacement, it will have to borrow from the e-reader playbook to convince people that what they can already get in paper (or for free on the web) is worth paying a premium for in this new format.
As a magazine delivery system, it will have to be an actual magazine, and not some of the component parts thrown together with a different creative sense, in order to be worth paying what we pay for paper.
And if has to make you forget about the device entirely, so you can focus on the content it’s displaying. This, it seems to do.
First and foremost, the iPad is fast. Very fast. Browser pages open on command. Swipes transition exactly when they should. We are used to the iPhone/Touch metaphor now of a device which sleeps a lot but turns on and unlocks in a snap and presents us with icons that get us to our destination, and the iPad does this on a grander scale.
Setting it on a table seems natural, and tapping out on the keyboard when necessary seems just fine in a hunt-and-peck sense.
A quick survey of available “print” content is impressive. It isn’t just that web pages seem bountiful or that games seem to have no latency and fill your vision. I synced with my laptop, choosing only a subset of the apps I use on my iPhone. Entering the App store for the first time you are offered a free book (after agreeing to a 58-page TOS) and if there are iPad updates they are waiting for you to download. Migrating your life from the iPhone is seamless.
All that’s to be expected. But to be the future of media the iPad will have to be a friendly reading device, and it will take a while to get a feel for that. At least two books, I would say.
And the cost of the media itself will be a determining factor. We know what movies and TV shows and books music will cost. We don’t know what magazine and newspaper publishers will be assuming the market will bear. The Wall Street Journal will charge $18 a month, more than for the paper and for the current bundle of newspaper and digital offerings.
Time Magazine, one of the first periodicals on the iPad, is asking $5.00 — the same at the newsstand price — and not offering a subscription yet. It’s hard to imagine that is a sustainable model, since even booksellers realize that e-books should be cheaper than their print analogs.
Loading up Time presents a cover page filled with a black and white photo of bespectacled Steve Jobs. This is strangely jarring, as if part of the branding of the device itself. But the smiling visage of the Apple CEO on the cover of one of the first iPad magazines is also somehow fitting.
The second page of Time is an ad. An ad which will not swipe away for several seconds. Hmmm … in a paper magazine — I paper magazine I paid five bucks for — I could tear the damn thing out if I wanted.
And I could not tell if it is a quirk of the app or of the hardware, but a black ban covered the bottom of many pages when they loaded. Rotating made it go away. But it appeared persistently.
Switching gears entirely, Skype works like a charm. The app needs updating, but the quality of the call, on speaker even, was fantastic.
So, yes, Virginia, you can make calls in the iPad. Good ones.
First impressions can be important, but are not necessarily the final verdict. The Gadget Lab regulars will take it from here, and I’ll delve deeper into the media aspects of the new Apple Tablet back on Epicenter.
More pictures below:
Pictures by Bryan Derballa, wired.com
When will I be able to get one?
If you hit the stores, I suspect your local Apple store may have some in stock. This isn't iPhone level hysteria. If you order one now on-line, though, you won't get one via UPS until April 12.
If I go today, will I still be able to get one?
Call first, but I doubt they're totally sold out everywhere.
WiFi/3G or WiFi-only?
I'd say 3G, but that's just me. I'd love to be able to use this at press events without WiFi. Your mileage and use case will vary.
Can I jailbreak it?
Not yet, but GeoHot has been working on a method that may soon work.
When will I be able to get one?
If you hit the stores, I suspect your local Apple store may have some in stock. This isn’t iPhone level hysteria. If you order one now on-line, though, you won’t get one via UPS until April 12.
If I go today, will I still be able to get one?
Call first, but I doubt they’re totally sold out everywhere.
WiFi/3G or WiFi-only?
I’d say 3G, but that’s just me. I’d love to be able to use this at press events without WiFi. Your mileage and use case will vary.
Can I jailbreak it?
Not yet, but GeoHot has been working on a method that may soon work.
Will I break it?
Probably not but get the case if you plan on traveling. It’s really nice.
Will I scratch it?
The screen is really big but on par with a standard laptop screen. The back is made of aluminum. It won’t scratch any more than a MacBook Pro will.
How are ebooks?
Aah-mazing! The Winnie the Pooh title I read so far was great – pictures were excellent – and the rest of the media, including The Elements, are fascinating. This is not CD-ROM era stuff. This is the Diamond Age.
How are the games?
The HD games are great. I’m trying more out as we speak, but Real Racing HD is great.
How are movies?
I wish I could take a long flight. Having this on my lap would be great.
What size?
Go big or go home. 64GB.
I travel a lot and want to read. I can sometimes leave my Kindle “on” but will they make me turn it off when the plane takes off and lands?
Heck yeah. This thing will definitely set off bells.
Should I get one?
This is 1st Gen Apple hardware. You pay the price for early adoption. There is the potential for a built-in camera down the line. Are do you already own a Kindle and just want it for ebooks? Don’t get this right now. Are you a fan of Apple and must have everything they produce? Get thee to the ebookery. Do you want this to be your book iPod? Don’t get the iPad. Do you want to watch movies on the plane? Get this thing.
Again, there’s no telling what iPad 2.0 will be like but if history is a guide, it will be slight hardware improvement and some new features. It’s not like the iPod Touch got a camera last upgrade, right?
Do you have more questions? Ask me in comments or Tweet me. I’m happy to answer as they come in.
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In appearance, the iPad is little more than a 9.7-inch, 1,024 by 768 pixel touchscreen with a few control buttons along the edges and a home button at the bottom. In other words, a giant iPod Touch.
But sometimes size does make a difference, and our first look at the iPad suggests that its modest features might add up to more than the sum of its parts.
Let’s put that to the test. We’ve got several iPads here at Wired now, and we’ll be testing them today and reporting back to you in real time.
For more on Apple’s new tablet, check out Wired’s iPad full coverage page.
What do you want to know about the iPad? Ask your questions in the comments here, or send them via Twitter to @gadgetlab, and we’ll do our best to update this page with the answers.
@free_dob: Is there already a support for Flash video or is it still native QuickTime?
The iPad has no support for Flash, and we get the notion that most people care about how this affects streaming video. Fortunately a number of Flash-based video websites, such as YouTube, have been rewritten with HTML5, which is supported on the iPad. And some video websites, such as Netflix, have created iPad apps. Even so, without Flash we’ll still be missing out on a chunk of the internet — sites that haven’t rewritten their video playback with HTML 5 or created iPad apps — and we’ll just have to wait and see how many websites hop into the “iPad-ready” boat.
@talkhalakath: Can you put the Android OS on the iPad? I’d buy one then.
No. The iPad is a closed, proprietary device that is limited to running Apple’s iPhone OS. If you’re hoping for a more open system, the most you can do is jailbreak the iPad. Supposedly hackers will be pushing out jailbreak solutions for the iPad soon.
@gotha52k: Are any available?
New pre-orders are shipping “by April 12,” according to Apple’s website, so it looks like the current batch of units reserved for pre-orders is sold out. Those who reserved iPads a few weeks in advance are able to pick it up between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today. Any reserved iPads not retrieved are up for grabs at Apple stores. Plenty of people were able to get iPads without a reservation earlier today, but by now we’d say the chances of getting one today without a pre-order or a reservation are pretty slim.
@gotha52k: Is it really worth $500?
Considering it’s basically a computer, $500 is a pretty good price. We would recommend you try it in a store before committing to purchasing one, however. Also, we generally recommend against the $500 16-GB Wi-Fi model, because it’ll get filled up pretty fast. iPad apps, music and movies will fill up a 16-GB model pretty fast, so we’d push for the 32-GB model. See our buyer’s guide to choose the right iPad for you.
As with most tech products, prices will come down after it’s been out for awhile. In a year, it will probably cost less. At $300, the iPad would be an excellent deal.
@jeperkin: What is the main or best use of the iPad? Why would I buy one? (No, I’m not being cynical - so far I just don’t “get it”)
Nobody needs an iPad. It’s a brand new category for a casual, lifestyle computer. In its current state, the iPad is going to be the computer you use to veg out on your couch: It’s best use is consuming media (watching movies, browsing the web, listening to music, etc.). Just like with the iPhone, however, what will make the iPad more interesting are the apps made by third-party developers. Imagine the iPad replacing textbooks for students, or X-Ray charts for hospitals, or real-time 3D modeling for architects. We’d say, you don’t have to buy one today, but keep your mind open, because it may be something you really want later.
@oneofthejoshs: Battery life. How long does it really last for video, Wi-Fi, music etc?
We just got our hands on iPads a few hours ago, so we haven’t had time to do thorough battery testing. However, early reviews of the iPad say it gets up to 12 hours of battery life playing video, which is far longer than most laptops.
@SamuelCouch: Unlike the iPhone, does the iPad allow you to use a stylus?
Both the iPhone and the iPad actually are usable with a stylus. Theoir capacitive touchscreen does detect input from styluses. Apple doesn’t ship iPad or iPhone styluses, but third-party companies do.
@superbarker: Is there any native way to print (from Pages, or any other for those matters)?
No. Apple has not created a native, systemwide printing freature for the iPad. Currently what you can do is use iWork to export to File Sharing, or e-mail the document to yourself, and then launch the file on a Mac or Windows PC and print from there. We’re betting third-party developers will be quick to deliver a more streamlined printing solution, however.
@FrostyBlonde2u: WHO will one have to sign up to in order to go online? If it’s AT&T, gag me with a spoon, they suck!
The iPad 3G, which is releasing late April, is an unlocked device. However, the iPad only supports MicroSIM cards, and AT&T is the only U.S. provider using MicroSIM cards. So for right now, you’re stuck with AT&T for 3G service on the iPad. You can, of course, still go online using a Wi-Fi network.
@BikerMike: Does it have a microphone?
Yes. But keep in mind the iPad does not ship with a native phone app or voice recorder, so you’ll have to download third-party apps that make use of the microphone.
@buttonsarentoys: I wanna know if you can use it portably as a hard drive from a dongle…specifically, can I connect a CF card & unload RAW images?
Apple does sell a dongle to connect an SD card reader to the iPad. It doesn’t appear they sell a CF card reader, but third-party companies will likely come out with a universal card reader if Apple doesn’t first.
@TeresaKopec: Dumb question: how is the audio without headphones on the iPad? Wondering about sharing video etc. with kids in the car.
Not a dumb question at all! The audio without headphones, when cranked to max volume, is pretty loud, provided there’s not a lot of background noise. In the office here, it’s plenty loud enough for several people to hear while watching a movie together. But with background noise, it gets harder to hear. It might be a challenge to use in the car, unless your ride is very smoooooth.
@talk19: Can you stream photos over the network to the iPad or must all pictures be stored locally?
No, not natively, if you’re talking about iPhoto. Your iPad can only display photos synced to the device, meaning you can’t pull images from your iPhoto photo library over Wi-Fi. You can, however, handle photos using cloud services such as Evernote or Dropbox.
@skaltnerd: How far will the iPad fall before it shatters? #evilgrin #Blackberry #FTW
Hah! If the demand is great enough, we might consider performing a “stress test” on the iPad. But the iPad sports a scratch-resilient screen similar to the iPhone’s. So unless you’re a complete clutz, we doubt you’ll break this gadget easily.
@pielak: can i connect my stereo bluetooth earphones, hear music and navigate through the internet?
We don’t have a set of stereo Bluetooth headphones handy, so we can’t test this out for you. However, Apple says that the iPad supports Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, so your stereo Bluetooth devices should work just fine. Incidentally, you can also use Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad — you don’t have to wait for the Bluetooth iPad dock accessory that will be coming out later.
@buttonsarentoys: I know about the dongle, but can you use it to unload files the iPad won’t recognize (i.e., can you use the iPad as a harddrive?)
The camera dongle accessories — which let you connect a camera or an SD card to the iPad’s dock connector for uploading photos — aren’t available yet either, so we can’t test those. It’s a good bet that they’ll only work for uploading photos and videos, but that’s just our best guess at this point.
@beankssiduous: does the released iPad have a built-in camera? ..When will it be sold here in Abu Dhabi? ;]
The iPad does not have a built-in camera, and the 3G version that’s coming out later this month won’t either. There’s a small spot near the top of the screen that some people have thought might be a webcam, but it’s actually an ambient light sensor. It’s what the iPad uses to auto-adjust the screen brightness based on how bright it is where you are.
We don’t know when the iPad will be available in Abu Dhabi, England, or any of the other countries you have asked about. Sorry!
@Chris1982: With the iPad, will I be able to quickly & easily upload and read .pdf/.doc/.txt/etc?
Yes. The easiest way to do this is simply to e-mail the documents to yourself: We did this, and found that the iPad displayed all three of the above formats with no problems. It can also display non-DRM restricted EPUB books, via the iBooks app.
For academic papers, you might check out Papers. We haven’t used it, but we hear it syncs and displays .pdf files nicely.
If you want to edit documents, you’ll need the $10 Pages app, part of the iWork suite. It can import Pages documents from your Mac as well as Microsoft Word files. Pages can export documents as .doc and .pdf for printing, although — as noted above — you can’t print directly from the iPad; you’ll need to do that from another computer.
MichaelBurns: When you synch to iTunes first time does it transfer iPhone settings and apps?
Yes, but it’s not automatic: you can manually choose to transfer your iPhone apps, movies, music and photos to the iPad. It’s in the sync options that appear in iTunes when you connect your iPad to your computer via USB.
arepera: Will all the paid apps I have on my touch work on my iPad? Meaning, will purchasing one license allow me to have two instance installed on two different devices?
We tested this with Tweetie 2, and it worked just fine: The app we’d purchased on an iPhone transferred to the iPad, where it worked just fine.
jimmyjj: Does the e-mail on the ipad have a built in spam filter as on the macbook pro or is it essentially the same as the iphone relying on the mail program such as gmail for spam protection?
There does not appear to be any spam filtering on the iPad. Like the iPhone, there are no mail filtering rules at all within the Mail app.
Ben Patterson - Well, it looks like at least someone wants the iPad. A crowd of several hundred lined up outside Apple's flagship "cube" store on Fifth Avenue for a chance to snag the new tablet Saturday, with scores of other line-sitters waiting their turn at Apple Stores from Pasadena, California, to Knoxville, Tennessee. No, the lines weren't as long as those we'd seen (and experienced) for the iPhone in previous years, but apparently they were no less enthusiastic, and so far, at least, no train wrecks.
I’m all for letting your geek flag fly, but this is a bit much. Perhaps he wanted to be able to control the car from the front? At least it’s something that you can hide under you hood. I dunno. Props for knowing your roots and such.
Of course, a modification you can remove is a good thing, since it won’t impact the retail value. I mean, we’ve seen worse.
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By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
When the iPad went on sale this morning, Apple’s own iBooks store had nothing to fear from Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest bookseller — because Barnes & Noble’s iPad app isn’t yet available on Apple’s App store.
The iPad app of two rivals, Amazon.com and Kobo, a Toronto-based e-book retailer, were in the App store Saturday morning.
“We don’t have an exact date, but it will be there within the next two weeks,” said William Lynch, the new chief executive of Barnes & Noble. “Apple certifies all apps, so it’s not totally in our control.”
Apple declined comment.
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Need more iPad news? Who doesn’t! It’s practically a life-giving force at this point. Anyhow, the fine chaps over at iFixit have taken apart an iPad for all to see. It nicely complements the FCC’s own handiwork from a few hours ago.
While the FCC took apart a pre-production unit, the iFixit guys have taken apart an honest-to-goodness retail iPad. It’s the same thing so, so many people will be playing with later today. “Look, I can browse the Internet!”
To everyone waiting in line to buy an iPad today, boa sorte!
I’ve never seen people come downstairs so fast. I don’t even ring the bell and they’re at the door.”
– A UPS driver on the Saturday morning iPad deliveries he’s been making
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I was down at the Fifth Avenue Store in New York and after about 10:00am the lines sort of calmed down after a huge push. One guy had been in line for four days, which suggests that he may have been underemployed under this administration. We need a Peace Corps for people like these.
Anyway, the guys from YouRenew.com were there in big iPad v. Kindle outfits and I think this image, below, sums up the future of human interaction from now on out. So long and thanks for all the fish, indeed.
The wait is already over in some parts of the country. But here in San Francisco, a huge line of people are braving San Francisco’s frigid morning to be among the first to receive their coveted iPads.
In the interest of documenting the event for people who aren’t fortunate enough to have a flagship Apple store in their back yards, I’ll be live streaming the occasion using Qik on my Nexus One (note that even the sight of an Android phone may send some of these fanboys into a frenzy, so I’ve placed an Apple sticker over the Google logo).
Update: We’ve ended the live stream, but here’s the archived footage.
First half
Second half of the live stream — skip ahead a bit if you want to see the countdown and Apple employees clapping to welcome the first few people in line
I just grabbed my iPad, dock, and case and I'm ready to start living in the 21st Century. Say what you want, but the iPad is clearly a new way forward in terms of user interaction and portability. In fact, I regret that I don't have a long haul flight to test this thing out on because this device may be the elusive missing link between full-bore laptop and underpowered netbook for which we've all been searching.
On the whole, the iPad is nothing revolutionary: if you know iPhone, you'll know this thing. But Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, the office suite that isn't Office, is amazing on the iPad and iBooks are already a big hit around our house. Thankfully, Apple includes an A.A. Milne Pooh book for the kiddies.
When we last met NASA science officer Don Pettit, he was demonstrating the behavior of water bubbles in microgravity. Today, Pettit shows us how astronauts can use CD players to MacGyver a gyroscopically stabilized platform for holding flashlights and other tools.
It's awesome, and it's part of a series of Saturday morning science videos that Pettit did for NASA in 2003. You can watch more of them online, and read his text-based Space Chronicles newsletter from around the same time period. Good luck getting anything accomplished today.
For more on gyroscopes:
I just grabbed my iPad, dock, and case and I’m ready to start living in the 21st Century. Say what you want, but the iPad is clearly a new way forward in terms of user interaction and portability. In fact, I regret that I don’t have a long haul flight to test this thing out on because this device may be the elusive missing link between full-bore laptop and underpowered netbook for which we’ve all been searching.
On the whole, the iPad is nothing revolutionary: if you know iPhone, you’ll know this thing. But Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, the office suite that isn’t Office, is amazing on the iPad and iBooks are already a big hit around our house. Thankfully, Apple includes an A.A. Milne Pooh book for the kiddies.
Hyperbole without experience is hype so I’m going to ruminate on this thing this week and report back shortly. However, if you’re in the market for a netbook, this may be your solution. The jury is still out on WiFi v. 3G/WiFi (I’m leaning 3G/WiFi) but it’s still a fascinating product.
Britain is on the verge of adopting the Digital Economy Bill without debate or scrutiny by Parliament. Among other things, the DEB provides for disconnection of entire households from the 'net if any member is accused -- without proof -- of infringing copyright.
Jim Killock from the UK Open Rights Group sez, "On Thursday, our 'Police' visited the offices of the BPI, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties, and UK Music, and presented them with notice that the Digital Economy Bill is disconnected, from democracy, human rights, public opinion and sound business sense."
Disconnection notices served to UK Music, BPI and politicians
Source: Boing Boing | 3 Apr 2010 | 8:36 am
As a general-purpose tablet, the iPad can be many things to many people: an ebook reader, a wireless TV, a touchscreen videogame console. But to store owners and business people it can also be a cash register, with the right app, of course. Jack Dorsey’s Square, which was initially developed for the iPhone, now has an iPad app as well (iTunes link).
Square comes with a peripheral credit card swiper that lets any store or business person take credit card (or cash) payments on iPhones, and now, iPads. It takes finger signatures on the touchscreen, generates email or SMS receipts, calculates sales tax, and comes with an online accounting dashboard to keep track of sales. (You can watch our video of how the iPhone app works).
The iPad version is going to be appealing to many merchants because of the bigger screen and because it just looks more professional—more like some of the custom point-of-sale tablets you already see at some retailers today. But an iPad is probably much cheaper than some of those custom hardware systems, and Square’s payments software on the backend will keep getting better. Square can add new features without swapping the hardware.
So while the iPad will mostly be a consumer device, it opens up some interesting new opportunities for businesses as well.
Read our full list of the best iPad apps at launch here.
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Earlier this evening, as early adopters across the country started getting acquainted with their iPads, a very interesting (albeit short) video landed in our inbox: Crysis running on the just-released device. We’ve embedded the video below.
Here’s a phrase many of you will remember, probably from the late 1990s: “Yeah, I’d get a cell phone, but I don’t want to be on, like, an electronic leash, you know?” People had land lines, pagers, car phones — the pocketable mobile phone was still a luxury and, to some, an unwanted responsibility. Over the next 10 years or so, the mobile phone gradually reached such high levels of market penetration that it’s quite difficult to find anybody without one. It is simply too practical and affordable to refrain from at this point. However, in the last few years, as smartphones and texting have become the default mode of communication for many people, the tone has changed again; the electronic leash is returning.
Here’s a phrase many of you will remember, probably from the late 1990s: “Yeah, I’d get a cell phone, but I don’t want to be on, like, an electronic leash, you know?” People had land lines, pagers, car phones — the pocketable mobile phone was still a luxury and, to some, an unwanted responsibility. Over the next 10 years or so, the mobile phone gradually reached such high levels of market penetration that it’s quite difficult to find anybody without one. It is simply too practical and affordable to refrain from at this point. However, in the last few years, as smartphones and texting have become the default mode of communication for many people, the tone has changed again; the electronic leash is returning.
For the younger generation, this will be even more pronounced. This isn’t a bad thing at all, I should say: people complain loudly about how kids are texting each other all day and not really communicating. Okay, grandpa — I won’t take any wooden nickels, either. This method of communication is new, and we’re adapting to it as best we can, but just like the parents of my generation deplored the constant phonecalls (imagine the fortune telecoms made on second lines) and their parents deplored the baby boomers’ obsession with… I don’t know what, cruising in your hot rod maybe? Free love? I’m out of my depth. But you get my drift: the communication paradigm is changing, not for the worse, just for the new.
