Nook Tablet Teardown
Click and mortar giant Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet is a zippy update to the Nook Color “ebook reader”. The folks at iFixit recently tore one apart to get a closer look at the magic smoke that powers the HD streaming dynamo.
Mobile
Weather Resistant Smartphone Holder
For those of you who love using your smartphone while cycling in the rain, there’s this nifty hack from North Carolina maker jalexartis. After mounting your handset using your favorite method, cut the top off a plastic bottle, then make a slit down one side to accept the mounting hardware.
65-inch Touchscreen Android Tablet
The folks at Ardic Technologies in Istanbul seem to have developed a prototype for the ultimate tablet user experience. Isn’t this what we all secretly wish our handsets and tablets would do out of the box? Didn’t you expect you’d be able to smoothly transition from mobile device to a massive touchscreen effortlessly, like ten years ago? In any case, if Ardic can get their device to market, they’ll have one of the nicer presentation tools out there. I imagine this would go well with some of the newer apps from Adobe and Autodesk.
Adobe Touch Apps Released
Decent mobile tools for creative professionals are slowly starting to appear. Graphics powerhouse Adobe recently released a set of touch focused apps targeting Android tablets that appear to take advantage of the format. This first group of six tools, called Adobe Touch Apps, include a vector drawing app, raster photo app, color palette explorer app, presentation app, moodboard app, and wireframing app.
iPhone Acoustic Ruler
Here’s a novel way to take measurements using sound waves with an iPhone. German developer Florian Student’s Acoustic Ruler Pro for iOS will measure distances up to 25 meters by clocking the time delay of emitted sound waves. You can use the app with either a pair of headphones or with another iPhone to measure the distance between the two handsets.
iPhone 4 Passive Acoustic Amplifier Block
Check out this passive acoustic amplifier block for the iPhone 4 from Chicagoland Etsy user Lowell.
No more Flash for mobile devices…
Google and OEMs like RIM & HTC will likely need to drop support in the next versions of their OSes. For me personally, I can finally say the book I co-authored 9 years ago now officially outdated and not supported (I still get emails).
