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 Dark Side never looked this appetizing.

A French fastfood chain called Quick will be offering Star Wars-Themed Burgers to coincide with the 3D re-release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace!

The Jedi Burger is appropriately plain and old-fashioned, while the Darth Maul-themed Dark Burger looks to be peppered with spicy evil. But what blows them both away is the “Dark Vador Burger“, which looks positively infused with the infamous Sith Lord’s hate and anger that it turned its very bun jet-black like his heart.

That’s right. A black-bunned burger. A stroke of both genius and crazy!

Unfortunately, it seems that only France will get to taste this deliciously evil burger and its goody-goody counterparts, leaving the rest of us to just drool and imagine what a black bun tastes like.

Photo and info via Mintinbox (French).

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.

Via GmTristan.com

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This short film won the Best Animated Feature category of the recent Star Wars Fan Movie Awards.

via Official Star Wars Blog

On vacation? Bored with the usual “I’m on vacation” responder? Try this

Here’s something that’s new but has sense hahaha:

I am currently out of the office on vacation.

I know I’m supposed to say that I’ll have limited access to email and won’t be able to respond until I return — but that’s not true. My blackberry will be with me and I can respond if I need to. And I recognize that I’ll probably need to interrupt my vacation from time to time to deal with something urgent.

That said, I promised my wife that I am going to try to disconnect, get away and enjoy our vacation as much as possible. So, I’m going to experiment with something new. I’m going to leave the decision in your hands:

• If your email truly is urgent and you need a response while I’m on vacation, please resend it to interruptyourvacation@firstround.com and I’ll try to respond to it promptly.
• If you think someone else at First Round Capital might be able to help you, feel free to email my assistant, Fiona (fiona@firstround.com) and she’ll try to point you in the right direction.

· Otherwise, I’ll respond when I return…

Warm regards,
Josh

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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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Yup. Any Trekkie would know that that is the future birthplace of Jamers Tiberius Kirk. The folks at Riverside recently erected this marker above. Neato!

via Neatorama

Swords and Sorcery, go well together, just like, duh, doughnuts and coffee. But that shouldn’t interest you. If you geeks want to learn more about the history of ancient sword making, you’re in for a treat.

I’ll cut to chase. I’m a lazy bum.

This article here will tell you all about it. From ancient methods, to the arrival or bronze and then steel…

Read on and enjoy!

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