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Artist's rendering of rumored iPad 2 speaker grille

Today’s iPad rumor comes courtesy of Japanese blog MacOtakara. According to “sources in China,” the iPad 2 will be smaller, flatter and have a bigger, beefier speaker.

Even MacOtakara is skeptical of the rumors, but – true or not – they sound plausible. The new iPad will shave 3mm off the screen’s bezel, making for a smaller tablet but with the same sized display, dropping the overall dimensions from 242.8mm to 239mm (height) and 189.7mm to 186mm (width).

The back of the iPad will be flatter than the current model, leading to less wobbling when poking at the screen whilst the iPad lays on a table.

Most interesting of all is a new speaker, a bigger, louder unit which crawls around the curve at the back of the iPad. The image above is a rendering by Taiyo Fujii for MacOtakara, showing what it might look like, interior metal gauze and all.

This larger speaker fits perfectly with the leaked iPad 2 case design, which has a large cutout that wraps around the rear in just this spot. In fact, when I saw that case design earlier this month, I immediately assumed it was for a bigger speaker.

Finally, and labelled as “unreliable” by MacOtakara, the new iPad will have two cameras, one front-firing and one rear-facing. The rear cam will be the same as the one in the iPhone 4. These units are, according to the source, already in production, and will ship in January.

This January date is like more likely to mean shipping to Apple, not shipping to customers. Establishing January as the launch date for new iPads would kill all iPad Christmas purchases in future.

Equipped with large speakers ‘iPad (2nd generation)’ is released in January 2011? [MacOtakara]

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Iain Sinclair’s Poco Pro is a tiny, credit card-sized (although not credit-card thickness) camera. Despite its pocket friendly design, it manages to pack in a rather ridiculous number of features, especially given its projected £200 ($307) price-tag.

The sensor is a way-too-large 14 megapixels, which will also capture 1080p video. The blurb on the site says that the camera has “excellent low light performance and can outperform much larger and bulky rivals.” I remain skeptical.

Round the back you’ll find a 2.4-inch AMOLED screen, with touch buttons arrayed around its edges, much like the four buttons on many Android phones. The buttons also give haptic feedback when pressed. See what I mean about feature overload?

Amazingly, this little slip of a camera also manages to squeeze in a mechanical shutter, the kind found in SLRs. This gives it the potential to have almost no shutter lag – the delay between pressing the button and taking the picture.

The Poco Pro doubles as an MP3 player, too, with a jack socket and built-in speaker, and media is stored on a microSD card, which might slow things down a little.

Want more? Sure. How about direct uploads to YouTube or Flickr (when connected to a computer, I assume, as there is no other connectivity). Or two LED flashes, not one, on either side of the lens. One thing you don’t get, though, is a zoom.

It seems hard to believe that a camera could have all this and also be well made for just $300. And to be honest, we’ll probably all forget about it before it finally ships in June next year, or possibly never ships, confined to the insides of a CAD application for the rest of its days.

Pico Pro product page [Iain Sinclair via Oh Gizmo]

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The Solar Vox, from Detroit-based designers  Eric Strebel and Jim Nogarian, is a USB charger powered by the sun. The project has been launched on Kickstarter, the place where potential customers can pledge their cash for startups, in exchange for getting one of the first products off the line.

The Solar Vox consists of a solar panel and a pair of rechargeable AA batteries, housed in a box shaped like a tiny air-hockey table. This odd design, a rather 1980s-style vision of the future, has a purpose: the case can be tilted to fully soak up the sunbeams. The odd angles let you prop the box at 0, 30, 70 and 90-degrees.

Once charged, you hook up your cellphone or other portable device and pop it into the inner chamber. This keeps things tidy, and protects the phone from the sun.

Eric and Jim plan to have the first units ready in the first quarter of 2011. To sign up and get one when they’re done, you’ll need to pledge $100.

Solar Vox product page [Kickstarter via Core77]

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• Solar MacBook Charger Costs More than MacBook Itself
• Personal Solar Panel Twenty Time More Powerful Than Rivals …
• DIY Friday: Charge Your iPhone With AAs or Solar Power
• Solar-Power Box Plugs Straight into Your Home

This article was written on February 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

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