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All the Apple iDevices (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) are designed to be used with fingers. But occasionally, there are times when you wish you had a stylus to operate these devices. This is especially useful for iPad which really fails as a note-taking/drawing Tablet. Due to the capacitive nature of the screen, the traditional styluses don’t work with these devices. This Mi-Stylus “has a special impregnated tip that replicates the physics of the human finger”.

Designer Stuart Hughes, whose is famous for his creativity and innovation has now come up with the worlds 1st solid Gold+Diamond crafted iPad for the elite class. This iPad is “encrusted with 25.5 cts of ‘I’F’ Flawless diamonds, a magnificent total of 53 individually set sparkling gems dwell beautifully in their solid 22ct Apple logo.”



The rear and screen of this iPad are surrounded with a single piece of solid 22ct gold, which weighs 2,100 grams. There are only 10 units of this limited edition 64GB version of iPad WiFi + 3G, each of which costs around US $189,000.

If you have been using your iPad on a desk with the official iPad Keyboard Dock accessory, you might have felt the need of having a mouse to control iPad’s screen. This is because it is more convenient to use a pointing device for interacting with a device when it is placed in a standing position on a desk, just like how we do with our desktop monitors, notebooks/netbooks and so on.

After the release of James Cameron’s Avatar for the iphone and ipod touch, Gameloft today has released the popular title for the recently launched iPad as well. This new game will make you enter the beautiful and dangerous world of Pandora with HD graphics on the 9.7-inch display of iPad that bring the war between humans and Na’vi to life.

According to this report from Clayton Morris of Fox News, we’ll see Apple Tablet, the next-gen iPhone software dubbed as “iPhone 4”, and iLife 2010 next week at the special Apple event in San Francisco. The next-generation iPhone 4G however wont be the part of the event. Clayton, who talked to a source at Apple this morning confirms that the January 27th event will mainly focus around these three products.

I spoke to a source at Apple this morning, before the invite hit my inbox, who said the event would likely focus on three projects: The tablet device, iPhone 4, and a new round of iLife 2010 software. While we won’t see new iPhone hardware just yet, we will see the next-generation software.

 Sources close to BGR has dropped some exclusive information regarding the upcoming iSlate/Tablet device from Apple. The said device, which is likely to be announced on January 27th will feature a very fast ARM processor, and will run on top of iPhone kernel. Details, as stated on Boy Genius Report site are as follows.

Litl's webbook looks and feels almost like a traditional laptop, but is billed instead as an internet appliance; think Chumby with a keyboard, and you won't be too far off the mark. The device was released in November, but I got a chance to check it out here at CES.
The litl is lacking much of what makes notebooks useful: there's no optical drive, a single USB port, and only 2GB of flash memory that's reserved for the proprietary OS. At $700, the device becomes an incredibly hard sell. But litl has adopted a "less is more" stance, and for the right user, there's a lot to like.
The litl OS consists of "cards," which are essentially Web widgets arranged in a grid on the home screen. Without hard drive space, litl users must depend on cloud-based services (and a Wi-Fi connection) for content. Browsing works just like a normal PC -- it sports a re-skinned Mozilla browser -- but widgets serve to heighten the experience.

Hewlett Packard is currently working on numerous tablet devices that will come in a variety of sizes, shapes and operating systems, including Windows 7, Google’s Android, and possibly the open-source operating system Linux.
The company has so many different tablet-related projects in the works that a variety of upcoming publishing partners were surprised to see a Windows 7 version of the Hewlett-Packard slate announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show.

You’ve heard of Amazon.com’s Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid.
Those products are part of a new wave of slender touch-screen tablets and electronic reading devices that dozens of companies, both well known and unknown, brought to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

 

Tablet PCs are the big thing at CES 2010. Here's a look at what HP, Lenovo, and Sony have lined up--as well as at some of the challengers aiming to knock them down.
If this year's CES is any indication, 2010 is the Year of the Tablet PC. Practically every major consumer tech company is coming out with something thin, touchable, and Twitter-friendly.

CrunchGear has got the latest scoop on the rumored Microsoft/HP built slate/tablet PC. According to their sources, Microsoft in partnership with HP is set to announce a portable Slate like tablet PC which will run on top of Microsoft software.

 CEO Ballmer introduces a Hewlett-Packard tablet computer at CES as Apple's expected unveiling of its own model stirs interest in the category.