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After creating the Photorito lens wrap that makes your zoom like a burrito, Photojojo has pulled off another feat: making iPad photographers look even wackier than normal. But the company’s iPad telephoto lens is pretty useful if you’re willing to hold a slab to your face to grab images. It brings a useful 10x zoom to the iPad 3 and 4, and 12x to the iPad Mini, giving you un-pixelated closeups along with “slight vignetting, a lo-fi look and all around interest to your photos.” You’re not going to make your iPad any less conspicuous as a camera than it already is, so you can grab the wee lens for $25 at the source.

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There is an app for everything, or so they say. The thing is, have we actually run out of the number of apps for different purposes available? Perhaps, or perhaps not, but here we are with the world famous iPad strutting its stuff in a new pilot project that is being implemented by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, where this project will see the loan of more than 1,000 iPads to home-based caregivers which will assist veterans who have suffered severe injuries in the past.

This particular program works this ways – caregivers will be able to receive assistance to help improve the communication as well as health and patient reports, which are currently being performed either over the telephone, or in a manual manner whenever a patient visits a doctor’s office or VA medical center. These iPads have been specially loaded with 9 custom build applications where the caregivers will make use of in order to report and update information that have been incorporated into a larger patient profile. You will find a wealth of information there concerning pain management, prescriptions refills and other health assessments. Anything that helps make life a whole lot easier and more convenient is always a good thing in our books.

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I can always tell when my daughter is an art making mood. I don’t have to see her artwork to know she’s feeling artsy, I can look at her hands and tell when she’s been in the marker box. She always ends up with pink and orange swirls on her fingers and on the side of her hand. We also end up with Crayola wrappers everywhere and pieces of paper thrown all around. She typically makes a big mess but ends up with beautiful artwork.

If your kid likes to make a lot of artwork, but isn’t exactly neat about it you might want to check out a new product from Griffin called the Crayola Light Marker for iPad.

The device itself looks like your typical Crayola marker, only it has a glowing light on one end and works in conjunction with an application that runs on the iPad. Instead of drawing directly on the screen of your iPad, you draw in the air with the Light Marker. It uses the iPad’s front-facing camera to track the position of the marker. It also comes with a stand to hold the iPad in place at just the proper angle for drawing.

The app offers several different things the kids can do including a free draw where they can draw on the screen just like they would on a piece of paper with any color marker they want. The app also includes coloring pages, dot-to-dot pictures, and hide and seek pages to play with. The app is available on the app store at no cost and the Crayola Light Marker itself is available right now for $29.99(USD).

Despite the iPad sporting a pretty decent camera, the fact that the tablet is so big makes it something of a faux pas to use it to take photos in public. In fact there are many jokes on the internet that poke fun of people using iPads as their cameras. Either way it seems that using an iPad to snap photos at a girl’s softball tournament may have very well prevented some serious injury to this elderly gentleman. Snapping some photos of the game in action, a foul ball flew straight at him and had the iPad not been positioned in front of his face, well, the results would have been a lot bloodier and a lot less hilarious. Surprisingly the iPad was not damaged despite taking what appears to be a pretty heavy hit, and we have to agree with Gizmodo’s Leslie Horn in saying that this might be the universe’s way of telling this gentleman that perhaps it might be time to stop taking photos with the iPad!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apple Keeps Your Siri Data For Two Years, Griffin’s Crayola Light Marker For The iPad Lets Your Kids “Paint” With Light,

One of the most common things people do on their iPads and other tablets or smartphone device is to stream video from various streaming services such as Netflix. A new movie streaming service is now available for Safari users on the iPad and the iPad mini. The service is called M-GO and it has been fully optimized for operation on the iPad.

The streaming service promises that you’ll be able to access new movies and TV shows much earlier than Netflix gets the content. The service doesn’t appear to be a subscription streaming service where you get all you want to watch for one specific price. It’s more of a movie rental service, but the good news is for your first 30 days you can rent movies for only $.99 in standard definition.

If you want to watch an HD version of the film, you’ll pay $1.99 for the first 30 days. IPad users will be able to access the company’s entire movie catalog including new releases such as Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, Gangster Squad and The Impossible. The movie service also has a large catalog of older movies that you can rent in streaming format.

The company says that its platform is device agnostic and can be accessed on all major platforms including Windows and other mobile operating systems. The service allows you to have up to six profiles per account and has a Watch List feature allowing each member of the house to get their own recommendations. I like that idea because my daughter watches tons of animal movies on Netflix so the only thing that ever gets recommended for me are kids films. You can sign up to try the movie service directly from the company’s website.

[via M-GO]

M-GO digital entertainment service available for iPad users is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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