Hasta La Gadget!

One of the quickest ways to add some impact to your photos is to change your perspective. If you’re tall, crouch or sit on the floor. If you’re short, climb up high. Even better, get in the water.

Photojojo has a new waterproof camera and it costs just $35. That’s the cost of a couple rolls of film and processing, and will transform shots you take at the beach, Hell, if you’re smart, you probably don’t take your camera near the beach anyway, so this will be all-new to you.

The quality is as low as you’d expect: 1.3 megapixels, a dinky little 1.4-inch LCD, a fixed ƒ3.1 lens, a 4X digital zoom, an 30fps video of an unspecified size. On the other hand, it has a 10-second self timer, shoots as close as two feet and runs on a pair of AAAs. And looking at the sample shots, the images are way better than the crap that comes out of the iPad 2.

And of course, it is waterproof.

The “Underwater Digi Cam”, as it is called, is cheap enough and decent enough to be a lot of fun on the beach, or even as a general outdoor camera to take where you wouldn’t dare take an SLR. It doesn’t hurt that it looks cute, too. Available now.

Underwater Digi Cam [Photojojo]

See Also:

• Kodak Underwater Sports-Cam Almost Cheap as a Disposable
• Liquid Image's HD Video Underwater Camera Mask
• Waterproof Wrist Camera
• CES 2010: Film Underwater With HD-Camera Scuba Mask – Video – Wired
• Agfa Rises From the Depths with Cheap Underwater Camera

Pantech and AT&T have revealed the Crossover, an entry-level Android phone that is also designed for durability.

Originally posted at Android Atlas

The company plans to unveil a “cloud services offering” along with the Lion version of Mac OS X. CEO Steve Jobs, on medical leave, will be on hand for the announcement.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Omm, shanti, shanti, omm! OmmWriter is great for text-editing yoga hippies

When OmmWriter appeared on the Mac, I wondered what the fuss was about. OmmWriter is one of those “distraction-free” writing apps which block out everything except the text you’re working on. OmmWriter went one step further than the usual full-screen mode, adding in calm, meditative background music to the mix.

The app was fine, but if you can’t ignore a few open windows on your computer while you’re writing, it might be time to pick another job, or pick up some ADD meds.

Now OmmWriter has come to the iPad, where it makes a lot more sense. While I still don’t buy into the distraction-free thing, I do appreciate a minimal interface on the iPad’s little screen, especially with the keyboard taking up half the space. OmmWriter actually uses a custom keyboard, as you can see in the screenshot above.

This keyboard can be made bigger or smaller by pinching in and out, and can even be dragged up the screen to sit a little higher. You can also choose between QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ layouts, and the keyboard makes a quiet click or chime when you press a key (this is configurable).

Speaking of sound, you can choose from the same tranquil background music as in the Mac version, and you can also change backgrounds between various relaxing scenes. Some of these even move, like the snowy landscape option above.

I got pretty excited, too, when I pasted in a chunk of text and saw it show up behind the keyboard. This seems to have been a bug, though, as it disappeared when I started editing. It would be a nice feature, letting you see more text as you write.

OmmWriter looks pretty good, and sounds even better. But hard-core writers may want to wait a while. The current iPad version doesn’t have Dropbox support (you have to e-mail your documents as TXT or PDF files to get them out), and there are none of the fancier navigation options (tapping margins to move the cursor, for instance) found in the latest second-gen iPad text editors.

Still, that’s not the point. OmmWriter is supposed to be simple and beautiful, and judged on those criteria, its a winner. OmmWriter is available now for $5.

OmmWriter for iPad [iTunes App Store. thanks, Marzban!]

See Also:

• PlainText: iPad Text-Editor from the Makers of WriteRoom
• Elements for iPad, a Dropbox-Syncing Text Editor
• Daedalus Touch, a Clever, Gesture-Based iPad Text Editor
• Writing Kit Text Editor Is a Mobile Research Room for iPad …
• Essay: iPad Rich Text Editor Shows Promise, Needs Work

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