Hasta La Gadget!

This is for all you parents out there that need to get your kids from staring at their iPads. The Osmo digital toy for iPad will help do just that, bring them back to the real world.

This new device will come with three games, all of which will make your kids want to play and interact with their friends. The games are Tangram, Words and Newton. In Tangram you match puzzle pieces to complete a shape on the screen. While playing Words you can play against another team to spell out a word that matches the picture on the screen. Newton features a ball that falls down the screen through a maze that you choose to draw on the piece of paper in front of the device, or you can lay anything in front of the iPad and it will add it to the maze. They have a great video on their site that shows each game and how it works.

Osmo consists of a base to prop the iPad up and a mirror device that slips over the iPads camera. You can pre-order Osmo for $49 now, which we highly recommend because the price will go up to $99 soon. If you order now, it should ship to you sometime this summer.

Olloclip for iPad and iPad mini is now available for pre-order. This versatile lens is made to slip on and off your mobile device in a just a few seconds.

The lens holder slips over the corner of your iPad and will bring four new lenses to your device. For lenses you will have a fish-eye with a 180-degree field-of-view, a wide-angle that doubles the field of the iPad’s camera, a 10x macro with 18mm focus length and 15X macro with 12mm focus length.

The Olloclip for the iPhone has gotten rave reviews and it’s likely this one will be just as good of quality. The price is $69.99 and shipments will start June 2, 2014.

Also, check out some of the other interesting iPhone lenses we’ve come across in recent times.

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The iPad is one of the products released by Apple that took the world by storm. Tablets have been around for a while but it’s safe to say that with the iPad, things really started to catch on and we’re starting to see a lot more tablets compared to before. However analysts seem to be a bit pessimistic about Apple’s upcoming Q2 2014 earnings and expects that the Cupertino company will announce that iPad sales have dropped.

Assuming that is indeed the case, why is this? After all the iPad mini with Retina display basically gave users what they wanted, not to mention the iPad Air is a pleasure to hold as it is both light and slim. Well according to former Apple executive, Jean-Louie Gassee, he believes it is because of the iPad’s ambiguity – the fact that it is not a smartphone, nor is it a computer. He was also quoted as saying that the tablet’s “meteoric debut raised expectations that it can’t currently meet.”

According to him, he states that while the iPad is easy enough to use, it’s not enough when it comes to productivity. This is because unlike computers, accessing files to put together a presentation or a document is not as easy due to the lack of a file manager. Essentially if Apple wants the iPad to survive, it will need to become more MacBook-like. This is actually interesting because that’s what Microsoft is doing with its Windows-based tablets.

Not only do they function as tablets, but because it runs on Windows, it provides a familiar interface, not to mention a file manager, that will allow for increased productivity. The Surface tablets are a good example of that, especially when used with the keyboard cover. Then again Windows-based tablet sales haven’t really been that great, but what do you guys think? Should Apple consider ways to make the iPad a “serious” productivity tool?

Former Apple Exec Thinks The iPad Needs To Be More MacBook-like , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Apple, Tablets, iPad,

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