The iPad is not childproof. It’s fragile and expensive and we can’t imagine why you’d want to hand it over willy nilly to your kids. That said, if you’ve got money to burn and don’t mind letting small hands tool around with high-end consumer products, then this should tickle your parental fancy. Announced as a collaboration between Griffin Technology and Crayola, the Crayola ColorStudio HD app for iPad matches a marker-shaped digital stylus — the inventively titled iMarker — with your child’s LCD-colored imagination. Read more…
If you were waiting for the iPad to get marked down, today’s your lucky day– as long what you want is the original iPad. While the newer, thinner, lighter, faster iPad 2 isn’t even available for pre-order, Apple’s slashed the original down $100, making the 16GB Wi-Fi version just $399. Considering that both generations offer the same apps and functionality, $399 is a good deal. Looking for the 3G version? The 16GB version of that model is now $529, or roughly $70 less than the Motorola Xoom, and the top-of-the-line 64GB with 3G is marked down to $729.
Apple has announced its long anticipated iPad 2 Tablet which is the successor of the original iPad. When compared to the first iPad, the iPad 2 is thinner, lighter and more powerful. It measures a mere 8.8mm thick and weight in at approximately 1.3 pounds with the original iPad weighing 1.5 pounds. It packs the power of a dual-core Apple A5 processor that according to Apple is two times (2X) faster than the processor found in the original iPad, it offers 900 percent faster graphics plus they have also added a gyroscope which can be found in the new versions of the iPhone and iPod touch plus other competitions such as the Motorola Xoom and Web Cameras as well. 