Ice Blue Line's Acrylic iPad Stands Are Quirky

The new Danish design company Ice Blue Line, have designed some unique looking iPad stands which are all wall-mounstable. The MyiPad stand seen above is made from a lilac-toned acrylic and finished off with bright polished screws. You can charge your iPad and even hang it on your wall if you choose so. Ice Blue Line doesn't offer their MyiPad iPad stand in other colors, instead you can choose between three other stand designs for a different color. You can pick one up now for $42.

iOS 4.2 Released

After a long wait, apple has finallly released iOS 4.2 for the iPad. Around 5 months  since iOS4 was released for the iPhone. Anyway it is here now and it brings much needed multi-tasking, folders and AirPrint. The update also brings AirPlay, which lets you stream content on your iOS 4.2 device to an new Apple TV or an AirPlay compatible speaker and the Find My iPhone service is now free for all current generation hardware. 

It's not all good news with this update though. As Apple has changed the switch above the volume rocker from a rotation lock to a mute button. I liked that button, please change it back Apple? Please?

You can update to iOS 4.2 through iTunes right now and see the devices available for upgrade below.

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iPad Engraving Now Available

 

Just in time for Christmas, Apple is letting online buyers of the iPad to engrave their iPad with a personal message and offering holiday gift packaging to go alongside it. Just like the iPod engraving service, I presume engraving on the iPad will be an equal hit. You can order an engraved iPad starting today at no extra charge, but it will take roughly 1-3 days longer to dispatch and it costs an extra $5 for the gift wrapping. A small price to pay for a personalized iPad and a gift wrapped package as well. 

Source Apple Store

SwitchEasy's Cara iPad Case Packs Ninja Turtle Strength

SwitchEasy's new iPad case called the Cara once again amazes us with their unique design. The Cara is a folio style iPad case with a tough glossy hard plastic front to protect your screen that might remind you of your childhood heros, the Ninja Turtles. It's also coated with a durable scratch resisting coating to insure your shield stays shiny. The back is made from a grippy soft durable material that makes the Cara a slim profiled iPad folio. With the Cara included are two stands, port covers and a screen proctor. Nothing surprising if you're already familiar with SwitchEasy. You can pick up a Cara right now in three colors for $49.99.

Source SwitchEasy

Colorware's $300 Grip Case for iPad

This is madness! Colorware are now shipping their first ever case for the iPad called Grip, an aluminum case that only protects your iPad's bezel. The Grip might look a bit familiar to you if you came across ElementCase's Vapor aluminum cases for the iPhone 4. The Grip requires bolts to be screwed in order to install it on your iPad and it comes with the tools you need to the task. The Grip's handle allows you to easily carry your iPad around like a suitcase and supposedly gives you a good grip on your iPad. All this for your $300 of course, are you crazy enough to order one yourself? It's solid aluminum construction looks great but the price is definitely not right.

Being Colorware, you are able to fully color customize your Grip case for the iPad in any color combination your mind fancies. The Grip is available in a glossy and soft-touch finishes as well as in an unpainted version, but It will cost you an extra $30 to color customize and get the soft-touch version of the Grip. 

Source Colorware via Engadget

iPad Running iOS 4.2 Beta 2 (Video)

It turns out that the iPad's multitasking features on iOS 4.2 are slightly different than on the iPhone. In the video below is an iPad running the upcoming November iOS 4.2 release for the iPad with it's very own multitasking animation, nothing major but it's still nice to see a slight difference between the two devices.

Source Macrumors via MacStories

iPad Causes Netbook Sales to Be Halved in Best Buy Claims CEO

 

When the iPad was announced last January, the was many arguments about the point of the iPad between Apple fanboys and Apple haters. The fanboys said that the iPad is the replacement to the netbook, yet haters say it is pointless because it lacked features such as a USB port or a camera. Since, then the iPad has become a huge success but the question remains, by how much? 

Well according to Best Buy's CEO, Brian Dunn, a lot. As Dunn has told the Wall Street Journal that in Best Buys stores, the presence of the iPad has halved all netbook sales as customers are preferring newer, lighter and more portable devices. 

Brian Dunn also said that will the holiday season looming, they are going to increase it's stock of portable devices such as tablets, e-readers and smartphones, while reducing the amount of PCs and TV's in store. But the big question is, by how much will the iPad dominate this Christmas, and will this be the end of netbooks and the rise of the tablet?

Source Wall Street Journal | Digital Trends