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This week we’ve had an opportunity to take a peek at a rather interesting – and extremely simple – accessory for the iPad. It’s a magnetic stand called “Magnus” and it’s made by the folks at Ten One Design. This combination of aluminum and integrated magnets makes for just about as invisible a stand design as you’re going to get, and it’s essentially the same color metal as the rest of your Apple products – so it matches!

This design holds the iPad 2 or iPad 3rd generation design up in landscape mode. There is a limitation in that it’s using your iPad’s magnets that you’d otherwise be using with your Smart Cover in that you’ll only be able to place the tablet on one side. However, if you’re prone to going landscape all the time anyway, you’ll have found a lovely bit of hardware right here.

Once you’ve got your iPad placed in the stand, you’ll be able to tap away all night long or let it sit in place while you watch a movie. This stand is essentially the most basic and minimalistic metal stand on the market, one that does not pull any punches, and it looks rather nice. In fact you won’t be able to see it much at all unless you’re looking at your iPad from the back, but even then it looks nice and metallic anyway.

It’s important to note here that this unit should not be considered a hardcore bring-anywhere sort of accessory – it’s made of metal, and certainly is hardcore in that way, but it’s magnets are not so strong that they’ll hold the stand to the iPad if you hold the iPad aloft. This unit is made for “high-end workspaces” for the classiest of iPad owners.

This unit is available now from Ten One Design’s online store for $49.95 – in the package you’ll get the stand wrapped up in a box that’ll be shipped straight to your door screaming to be utilized. As Ten One Design notes, the ingredients of your package will be thus: machined, recyclable aluminum, nickel-plated neodymium, recyclable plastics, recyclable carton, and PET-coated paper fiber. Grab one now!

Ten One Design: Magnus iPad magnetic stand Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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CNN anchor Erin Burnett claimed Friday that the Federal Reserve is spending money wastefully, but that’s not exactly true.

“$1 million per job. That’s what America’s top money man says we’ve spent on stimulus from the Fed alone,” Burnett said on her CNN show “OutFront” on Friday.

“That is not a cheap cost per job,” Burnett said. “For those who are keeping track, we are not counting the president’s extra $2 trillion or so in stimulus in that money. Just the Fed’s money divided by the number of jobs.”

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Here’s the newest member to Mouse Computer’s desktop PC line-up, the MousePro-i512GX-0830. Priced at 109,830 Yen (about $1,397), the system is packed with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770 processor, an Intel H77 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 500W power supply and runs on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (SP1) OS. [Product Page]

Transcend offers you their newest line of USB flash drives, the JetFlash 360. Coming in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities, these plug and play flash drives feature a capless design, a USB 2.0 connection interface and are backed by Transcend’s limited lifetime warranty. The 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models are available now for $5.99, $10.99 and $20.99, respectively. [Transcend]

The Apple v. Samsung patent war that will seemingly never end has taken another turn today, as Apple is asking the court to add newer Samsung Galaxy hardware, including the Galaxy S III, Verizon Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 to its complaint against the Galaxy Nexus and other related devices. If you thought updated software and designs would keep these newer smartphones and tablets out of the fight — you were wrong. Just to help you keep things straight, remember this is a separate case from the one that ended exactly a week ago with a decision in Apple’s favor to the tune of more than $1 billion in damages.

At issue here are eight of Apple’s utility patents that it says Samsung has infringed upon. The headliner patents at issue are ‘721 which covers slide to unlock, and ‘604, which could apply to the universal search feature Samsung has been pulling from its phones recently. Another familiar entry is the ‘647 patent Apple slapped HTC with in 2010, which has a vague description but applies to clicking on a phone number in an email, for example, to call it. You can read the details on each and every one in the PDF linked below, we’ll be doing… anything else.

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Apple adds Samsung’s Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 to ongoing patent lawsuit originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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