Hasta La Gadget!

It only stands to reason that the company that brought the world the Pogo stylus for the iPhone and iPad would be the same to introduce a game controller for Apple’s popular tablet.

The new Fling controller from Ten One Design sticks to the iPad via suction cup and works with any games for the tablet that utilize a virtual joystick–games like Meteor Blitz, Super Megaworm, and Across Age. You stick your thumb in the middle of the thing and get down to business.

The Fling comes with either Ninja or Ultraviolet designs. It ships with a microfiber carrying case, which also serves as a screen cleaner. The accessory was announced today at CES. It’ll start shipping at the end of the month, but you can pre-order it now for $24.99.

First announced back in August, the Finis Swimsense performance monitor is now available. This wrist device is worn while swimming, and will automatically detect the type of stroke you’re doing, then record the number of laps swum, your total distance, and the number of calories burned. It will also compute your lap time, pace, and stroke count. It’s the first performance monitor that can differentiate between the backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle.

Besides showing your information on the Swimsense monitor, it also works with the company’s free analysis and training log software. The program can store an unlimited history so you can track your progress, and lets you create short term and long term goals. The monitor lists for $199. 

By the time this week is over, we can practically guarantee that you’ll wish you’d never heard the word “tablet” before. CES is still a couple of days away from officially starting, and we’re already receiving boatloads of tablet announcements. Moments ago, we caught word of the simply named Toshiba Tablet, and now we’re hearing about the AOC Breeze.

Who’s AOC? The company manufacturers LCD and LED monitors and HDTVs, and while the name doesn’t have the cachet of a, say, Toshiba or Samsung, the company produces a lot of product.

Today the company is unveiling its Breeze tablet. The device features an 8-inch display, a Rockchip processor, 802.11b/g, and Android 2.1. Not exactly state of the art, sure, but the device’s strongest selling point seems to be the fact that the tablet will come in at under $200.

“In developing the Breeze Tablet, we were able to capitalize on our expertise in video displays and our strength in the computer industry to create a device that matches our 60-year reputation of providing quality and user-friendly products at a great value,” says AOC exec Robert Velez.

The Breeze will be on the floor at CES this week, so we’ll be the judge of that…

The iPad 2 is coming–we (think we) know that much. Images of cases from third party accessory designers have been popping up a bit over the past couple of weeks, seemingly confirming this all but certain fact. Over the past week, Apple fansite 9to5 Mac managed to get its hands on case mold drawings from an unnamed company described only as “an Asian case supplier.”

The site was asked to “not so nicely” pull the drawings from its site, seeing as how they are someone else’s property–someone who, seemingly, could get into a lot of hot water if the source were traced back. 9to5 Mac complied.

What we do know from the drawing is the iPad 2 (assuming, of course, that these are accurate) will have a tapered back, are a rear camera. There’s also a new port on the device, which is assumed to either be an SD card slot or either a mini- or standard USB port.