Do you have anxiety just thinking about dropping your precious iPad or iOS device? Worry no more! Here’s the ultimate test – drop an iPad encased in the G-Form case from the fringes of space… and survive! Video after the break

iPad Survives 1,300 Feet Drop

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The hand-held space is a pretty interesting avenue of gaming right now. While hand-held gaming has never been more popular, the competition has never been greater.

Nintendo, credited with creating the first hand held console with Game Boy in 1989, is certainly still one of the major players. But Nintendo’s 3DS (which actually helped yield the company’s first ever quarterly loss) is struggling right after launch. It seems that even without a stereoscopic component, smart phones are gobbling up all the oxygen in the room, though a recent price drop has allowed 3DS sales to enjoy a relative surge. Most gamers agree, the biggest problem with the 3DS is not the price but the sheer lack of games.

Over at Sony, there’s preparation for the Vita, the successor to the PSP, and it’ll be launching at $249. The latest Vita controversy is that some games will require external memory cards and others won’t. Uncharted: Golden Abyss, for example, won’t even play unless you have a rather expensive, proprietary Sony memory card already installed in the system. Many in the industry still expect the Vita to outsell the 3DS.

But that’s not to say Sony is out of the woods. Even their PSP continues to suffer losses at the hands of smartphones. Right now, the hand held gaming market is ruled by iOS and Android. Their games are cheaper, more casual, and tend to be inexplicably addictive—Angry Birds (with it’s 200 million downloads) comes to mind. And it certainly doesn’t help Nintendo’s bottom line that 3D in smartphones may soon become mainstream.

Smartphone dominance is a trend in more than just hand-held gaming. Smartphones are used more and more for everything, gaining the edge on portable media players, GPS systems, Internet use, and even satellite radio. People are even using smartphones more for photography, opting for the high mega-pixel counts and the ease of use offered by devices like the HTC Android camera phone.

But the gaming world has traditionally been dominated by gaming companies, which is what makes it so peculiar that in the last decade companies like Apple and Nokia have been able to seize such a lion’s share of portable gaming sales. Is it the quality of the games? Surely, that is a factor, but it may just be more of an issue of people wanting their media sources and tools consolidated into a single device. When you’re on an airplane you don’t want to have to carry around gaming, phone, and Internet devices separately, like the countless remote controls in your living room.

Regardless, it will be interesting to see how the next months and years play out, as Sony launches more games on PSP and Nintendo attempts to get its groove back.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thanks one of the greatest CEOs that ever lived, and a man who not only changed the world through his innovative ideas but one who changed our lives.

Thank you, Steve!

A couple of days after the keynote speech of Tim Cook which unveiled the iPhone 4S, Steve Jobs passed away. That day was October the 5th, 2011.

He was 56. Steve lost his battle with cancer.

In a letter to Apple employees, “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” Mr. Cook said in a letter to employees. “We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.”

Apple also has a page dedicated to remembering Steve.

Some people have ideas and some people laughed at them.

Einstein, Newton and even Columbus believed in things that would eventually change how we view the world forever. Steve Jobs can be likened to such legendary figures. His thoughts were beyond practical, he invented devices that would not only make billions of dollars for his company but would be copied by almost every other company. And technology that would change the way we, and our children’s children, live every day.

Truly a pioneer.

President Barrack Obama said, in a tribute to Steve, that “Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world. The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.”

Right on.

And did you know, that before passing away, Steve left Apple with a 4-year plan for the future. Talk about a visionary!

I leave with one of Steve’s greatest speeches;

Thank you, Steve. You will be missed!

Rest in peace.

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Happy Weekend! What can be more awesome than a stage performance using nothing but iPads, iPhones and iTouches? The video after the break.

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This is ‘em one of those “Why-didn’t-they-thought-of-that-before” moment. You don’t need to have your iOS device on the floor with the old, boring charge cable…

With the reviveLITE – Docking Travel Charger for iPod & iPhone, you just find an outlet and you’ll be conveniently cradling your iOS device ON TOP OF the charger.

Smart!

For $20, you can have it HERE

ThinkGeek has something new. Lightsaber hilt flashlights. Available in Luke or Vader.

Price: $19.99 (Around P1,000.00)

Uses 3 x AAA batteries.

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Whoa! Some people will do the unthinkable to get a Flatscreen TV on the living room or bedroom. Check it out.

Flatscreen Fail

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Impress your friend with the newest geek gadget from ThinkGeek.

The Kandela is a magic wand activated candle. Impress your friends and tell them you’re from Hogwarts!

Check out the video…

Via Think Geek

When her dad refused to buy her the new iPhone 4, a girl in China posted her photo on website and offered her virginity to anyone who could give her the iPhone.

This is another classic case of obsession gone awry. The last news about the iPhone and iPad and absurd “trades” was when a teenager sold his Kidneys in order to buy the iPad 2.

Is it worth it?

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Have problems with “oversleeping”?

You can kiss that problem goodbye! Insert a hundred bucks in this alarm clock. If you don’t wake up, it starts shredding it.

Sure to solve your problems with waking early in morning. Lols!

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