Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’
Kyle VanHemert, wired.com

As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.”

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David Hockney paints on iPad

David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big
by Leslie Katz, cnet.com

A giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras.

There are iPad draw­ings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad…

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Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad
by Rick Broida, cnet.com

This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing.

The Live­scribe 3 is a wire­less ink pen that auto­mat­i­cal­ly syncs your hand­writ­ten notes with your iPhone or…

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Your digital footprint

5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint
TechNewsDaily, mashable.com

Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,…

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Many use Netflix without paying

10 Million People Watch Netflix Without Paying
Rebecca Greenfield, theatlanticwire.com

All that anec­do­tal pass­word shar­ing we’ve been hear­ing about is more than just a few media savvy friends pass­ing around their logins: One ana­lyst esti­mates that some­thing like 10 mil­lion peo­ple watch Net­flix Instant, gratis,…

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ProScope micro mobile iPhone mega close ups

ProScope Micro Mobile lets your iPhone get mega-close-ups
Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com

Optics manufacturer Bodelin is no stranger to hand-held microscopes, having previously brought us a series that can be connected to the USB port of a laptop. Given that smartphones are in many ways replacing laptops, however, it shouldn’t come as …

ProScope Micro Mobile lets your iPhone get mega-close-ups http://flip.it/HRAep http://flip.it/EaqyQ

American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines
Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com

Gadling, an AOL-owned trav­el blog, went aboard an Amer­i­can Air­line recent­ly to get a sneak peek at the iPad Elec­tron­ic Flight Bag that the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion orig­i­nal­ly approved in 2011.

The iPad flight bag…

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Can the iPad rescue education?

Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System?
Christina Bonnington, wired.com

Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded.

Christina Bonnington

Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? http://flip.it/Ym399 http://flip.it/bBhoJ

Curious rituals: the anthro of tech behaviors

‘Curious Rituals’ Examines Technology-Induced Gestures & Posture
core77.com

We’ve all seen it: the teenagers with one earbud in, feigning interest in conversation; iPad users brandishing the device like a radiation barrier to snap a photo; the veritable hypnosis of the “cell trance.” In fact, maybe you’re reading these ve…

Anthro study of tech postures http://flip.it/57qCf

Night reading on ipad to protect melatonin production

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End computer induced blue light insomnia

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Square business in a box

Square unveils ‘Business in a Box’
by Daniel Terdiman, cnet.com

The online-payment company’s Business in a Box bundle has everything needed to get up and running with Square Register. iPad not included.

Square today unveiled its “Busi­ness in a Box” pack­age, a bun­dle includ­ing all the com­po­nents need­ed…

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Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop

Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on)
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

The orig­i­nal Clam­case was one of the most flawed iPad key­boards we tried in our roundup — since then, the com­pa­ny has gone back to the draw­ing board and is now debut­ing a much-improved new model called the Clam­case Pro. Aside from being i…

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Kno launches Kno Me interactive textbook metrics

Kno launches ‘Kno Me’ interactive textbook metrics, lets you study your studying
James Trew, engadget.com

It was almost a year ago that we first heard about Kno’s smart text­book met­rics sys­tem “Kno Me.” Now the soft­ware is set to actu­al­ly launch, and find its way into stu­dents’ (and par­ents’) hands. As a refresh­er, the sys­tem pro­vides…

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Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on
Kevin Wong, engadget.com

Ear­li­er at CES, we got our hands on the Rode iXY 30-pin stereo micro­phone iPhone add-on that left our Light­ning users a bit sad. Cheer up! The folks over at Zoom got us over to their booth to take a peek at the com­pa­ny’s new iQ5 pro­fes­sion…

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Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone

Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone, iPad
by Jennifer Van Grove, cnet.com

Need a pulse check? iSpO2 — an iPhone and iPad accessory — gives you an immediate reading on your vitals.

LAS VEGAS—The iSpO2 by Masi­mo ports the hos­pi­tal check­up expe­ri­ence to iPhones and iPads and makes on-the-spot pulse read­ings…

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Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services
John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com

Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps.

There are hands-down fias­co…

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Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom
Killian Bell, cultofmac.com

Imag­ine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christ­mas. It’s prob­a­bly your first smart­phone — maybe even your first cell­phone peri­od — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start play­ing with it. But bef…

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Driving apps reviewed: do black box apps really work?

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