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From the SXSW Conference, a demo of Wired’s reader App. This would make me want to get an iPad for this alone (yes, I know the demo is not done on an iPad).

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There’s an interesting article and video up on the BBC website about some hardcore Lego Modellers. I’m a big lego fan although I am not nearly as extreme as these people. It’s worth a look if you like all thinks brick and minifig! Incidentally, if you are a lego fan and you haven’t seen it already, check out “The Brothers Brick”. It’s a great site with lots of great models built by people.

I had wanted to wait a little while since the iPad was launched to let the implications sink in a bit before trying to write about it. I have had so many thoughts flying around my head about Apple’s new device over the last week that I haven’t really known where to start. The more I read about it the more enthusiastic I get about the iPad. I also get equally annoyed about some of the stupid things that are being written. One thought keeps resonating with me though: the iPad isn’t really a computer. At least not in the traditional sense. (I know that technically it is a computer) Instead you should think of it more as a device that happens to do computing tasks. Let me explain.

This has to be the coolest remote control airplane ever.

Long time readers of this blog may remember that last year I began an expirement of sorts. Being a Canon shooter for years, I was frustrated with the Camera I was using at the time and I wanted to try out a member of the opposition as it were. So I bought a D90 as a way of dipping my toe in the Nikon pool. My previous posts about it are here and here. Anyway, it’s now a year later and I have written about my experiences with the camera over the last year. You can read the full story on my Photography Blog.

Despite having taken a verbal pummelling from the environmental organisation in recent years, Greenpeace and apple are now the best of friends. From to MacNN:

“‘Apple is leading and HP is playing catch up,’ said Greenpeace campaigner Casey Harrell. ‘But the lack of action from other companies is ensuring that customers and the environment are still losing out.’”

Jim Dalrymple points out that Apple are now number one amongst all electronics manufacturers and the only company to receive a four star rating. What a difference a few years makes.

Unless you’ve been living under a very large, internet free rock lately, you’d be hard pressed to have missed the launch of the “google phone”. The much anticipated (and leaked) “Nexus One” was finally released to the public yesterday. The first cell phone from the search giant, developed in conjunction with HTC, is also the first time the company has used their own android operating system on their own hardware. Slated to be available on T-Mobile initially or contract free in the US (with Verizon to follow) or on Vodafone in Europe, the launch has unsurprisingly attracted lots of media attention. With that attention of course come the inevitable comparisons to the iPhone and the equally inevitable labelling of the Nexus One as a potential iPhone Killer. I doubt however that Apple has anything to worry about.

It seems that Apple, a company previously renowned for making crappy mice (ironic since it popularised the mouse) has finally started to make a good dent in the mouse market. According to AppleInsider:

Apple’s new Magic Mouse helped Apple see a twofold increase in its share of domestic mice sales last month, AppleInsider has learned, garnering the Mac maker a double-digit slice of the market for the first time ever.

This is pretty impressive and shows that consumers appreciate the new mouse. I know I certainly do. It’s now the number 3 mouse manufacturer in the US after Logitech and Microsoft.
[Read AppleInsider | Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in 8 weeks]