Hasta La Gadget!

The company’s upcoming tablet will be based on Android and run a 1GHz processor. It will offer Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Following the only logical path one can take after building a working 15x scale Atari joystick, Jason Torchinsky is pulling together all the Apple IIs that can be had for a quick concert. Those not already entranced by chiptunes will want to give LA neighborhood art space Machine Project a wide berth on Saturday, where participants will use a 16 step sequencer to get something like music out of the system’s timer circuit. Those interested in checking it out can check the source link for details, but if you actually have an Apple II laying around (and aren’t in the middle of a game of Oregon Trail, that’s serious business) you’ll want to show up around 6 p.m. to get things arranged.

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A Silicon Valley start-up hopes people will buy its “light-field” camera that lets them refocus photos after they’ve been taken.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Audyssey has announced a new set of $199 media speakers that draw their inspiration from New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood. They’ll be hitting stores this fall.

Sadly, the wonderful anaPad is likely to be nixed by Apple’s legal dogs

I let other people’s babies play with my iPad, usually to shut the whining brats up when they start to cry (again). The soothing tones and gently flashing pulses of SoundPrism usually do the trick, but inevitably these impatient monsters start to stab at the screen, harder and harder until I’m worried about them smashing the glass with their stubby, undeveloped fingers.

So, seeing as kids are pretty easily amused, I’m thinking of taking the anaPad with me whenever I can’t get out of visiting my over-breeding friends. The iPad-shaped toy is a magnetic whiteboard set into a plywood frame. Down at the bottom is a slot for a dry-erase marker, and on the screen are six magnetic “icons” which can be stuck, unstuck and slid around.

The AnaPad comes from Etsy makers twigcreative, and costs just $30 (or a lot less than a replacement iPad screen). Because of those icons, don’t give it to any child under three years unless you’re happy to see them choke. Also because of those icons, which so closely mimic Apple’s own as to be veritable lawyer bait, I advise ordering soon.

Available now.

anaPad – children’s creative tablet [Etsy via Cult of Mac]

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