Voucher Codes in the UK decided to put together quite a cool infographic (if that’s the right word for it), that shows the real price of an Apple iPad and confirms if the $499 price tag is as “unbelievable” as they repeatedly have said.

First impressions of the iPad pricing is that we all expected it to cost $1000 or so, so when the lowest spec model came in at $499 it seemed like a good deal.

The infographic is based on old Apple products that have launched over the last 24 years and includes the likes of the Apple Lisa, Apple I, II and III right up to the iPhone, iMac and the Apple iPad. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] have signed a contract with Samsung believed to be worth $240 Million. The contract will see Samsung provide 3 million iPad displays to Apple. The deal is also believed to add more stability to iPad production in case of problems with the primary supplied.

The new deal will see Samsung become the second major supplied of 9.7 inch sized screens for the Apple iPad. The 3 million screens will be used over an unspecified amount of time. This is all according to a high-ranking industry representative who spoke to the Korea Times.

The Apple iPad screen is the most expensive part of the device and costs $80 regardless of which model it is put in. It’s twice the size of the iPhone screen but costs five times more due to the complexities required in building a larger capacitive touch screen as well as it having four times the amount of surface. [Read more…]

The RFID Wallet from Ogon is a wallet that is more in line with today’s society. When the traditional wallet was made it was designed to carry coins and notes. Of course we now have credit cards that can potentially get scanned by a portable scanner and details stolen from them all while in your pocket.

The new RFID Wallet has a protective shied to prevent the RFID tags being read while cards are in the wallet. Also the wallet is reinforced to prevent cards from getting damaged.

The wallet can store up to 15 credit cards and store cards inside giving plenty of space for your maxed out cards. [Read more…]

Tilt FX is a device that attaches to the bottom of your Sony PSP and adds motion control to games on the device. The small Tilt FX device is programmed to replace the normal direction pad controls essentially taking over the directions when you tilt the device.

The Tilt FX uses 3D movements allowing you to easily play driving games, action games as well as many other games in a similar way you would on an Apple iPhone or other handheld device that uses motion to function. [Read more…]

Earlier today we reported that the Nintendo 3DS has been announced and that it was expected to arrive sometime before the March 2011 fiscal year end.

Other than knowing that it will be 3D in a glasses-free form and that it is compatible with older DS and DSi games, nothing else was really revealed about the new Nintendo 3DS.

Information about how it achieves the 3D effect without glasses has arrived (not officially though) which says it will use a parallax barrier LCD screen built by Sharp. Although the technology is unsuitable for large screen devices (referring to TV’s), it has been seen to work on a few mobile phones and could work well on the new Nintendo 3DS. [Read more…]

Amazon are having a day full of Gold Box deals on Playstation 3 games. Big discounts can be found on various games with some being great and others not so great games.

Right now (and for the next 3 or so hours) you can get hold of Tekken 6 for $17.99 which is quite a big saving.

Other discounts coming up through the day include the following…

1PM Pacific: You might have played this RPG on your 360. – Star Ocean
4PM: Help Lego Dr. Jones through your favorite cinematic moments. – LEGO Indy
6PM: Wave around your PS3. – I have no idea
7PM: Don’t “tapout” on this great MMA deal. – UFC

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Gizmodo managed to get a trip to visit the LEGO underground secure vault which contains every single LEGO set ever made, still boxed and unused.

The LEGO sets are stored in a secure vault that has the environment controlled keeping it at the right temperature and humidity to best preserve the 1000’s of boxed of LEGO bricks.

Visiting the Lego’s Memory Lane”the secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured”touched me in a way I didn’t expect. This wasn’t amazement or simple awe. I was already astonished to no end by the tour of the Lego factory. No, this was something else, something bigger than the impressive view of the 4,720 Lego sets inside this lair. These weren’t just simple boxes full of bricks. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten.

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Amazon have put the A-Team DVD Box set on their site ready for pre-order.

The new DVD set includes 25 DVD’s that covers all five series of the show which contains 98 episodes for you to spend a good few months watching. [Read more…]

In Toy Story we see a number of Green moulded plastic Army Men that are called in to Andy’s room to solve problems and get things moving in the right direction. The actual army men have been around for many years before (back to the 1950’s).

Lego have now got hold of the idea and created Lego Green Army Men that resemble the originals. The complete set comprises of 6 pieces with the cost being $11 for 4 Army Men, a Jeep and Stretcher. [Read more…]

Check out these cool looking App icon fridge magnets that come from a company called Jailbreak Toys.

Each set has 18 magnets that comprises a set of almost all default applications such as an iPod icon along with email, weather, calendar, settings to name a few. [Read more…]

iKat is quite a cool looking Augmented Reality application that requires no real-world prompt to function correctly. Normally when augmented reality is used a place card is held up with an image on it which the phone can then lock on to and replace with the 3D rendered model. In the case if the iKat it just takes a quick scan of what the camera is looking at and can figure out where to place the 3D object.

The iKat application is basically just a cat that walks across a keyboard when holding the phone up to it, but the idea behind it is really what we are interested in here.

“Based on Zenitum’s D-Track engine, we are working on markerless mobile augmented reality application, iKat. You are breeding a virtual kitten on the phone. The kitten can be mixed into real world using AR. Since no markers or image targets are needed, you need to recognize the space in front of the camera for creating the appropriate space for your kitten.”

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Various iPad cases are available here. On to the Quirky…

As the Apple iPad launch date draws nearer, more and more accessories are becoming available. The last one we mentioned just a few days ago was the Vers Wood iPad case. Next on the list is a case built by Quirky that is called the Quirky Cloak.

The Quirky Cloak is designed to look sleek and provide enough protection to keep your iPad safe within. It is built from non-slip rubber and has a durable plastic hinge on the edges.

The iPad slides in the top of the casing and once inside is held firmly by a friction grip. The Quirky Cloak is designed in a way that allows the iPad to sit on a surface in landscape mode, or stand up with a kick stand in portrait mode. [Read more…]