Apple iPad, Applications and Accessories

Last weekend Jeremy Hart — Wired.com contributor and a global traveller with 120 countries under his belt — left Los Angeles for a 60 day, 21 country, 15,000 mile drive around the world — in a Ford Fiesta . Jeremy will be filing occasional updates here and on our sister blog Autopia. Here, he’ll be reporting on how well his various gadgets work in some of earth’s most amazing locations. – If you were the fisherman hanging over the edge of Santa Monica pier, the hobo foraging through a garbage bin or the glamour model squeezing into a dress (as shiny and pink as one of our two Ford Fiestas)  for a dawn photo shoot last weekend, then you would have witnessed this international escapade leaving the eastern edge of the Pacific. For us, it was the start of the Fiesta World Tour 2010.

The Apple iPad recently became available to ship within 24 hours for the first time since it began production in April. It looks like that might be due to a ramp up in production on the part of Apple’s manufacturing partners, …

Kindle DX Promotional Photo from Amazon.com It’s easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They’re all about the size of paperback books, whether trade (iPad) or mass-market (the Kindle 3). Some oversized models, like the Kindle DX, are closer to big hardcovers.

You may not want to be seen rocking one of these at your next gig, but if you’ve been trying to juggle your phone and guitar while using some of the endless number of apps out there, you might just want to consider this so-called Guitar Sidekick from Castiv. As you can see, there’s not a whole lot to it — just a bracket that attaches to the neck of your guitar, and an adjustable mechanism that will accommodate just about any smartphone (or even a PSP). No word on an iPad version just yet, but you can grab this one right now for $30. Guitar Sidekick brings your phone to your guitar, while your guitar gently weeps originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

According to a new research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, Apple’s manufacturing partners are now pushing out two million iPads per month, with Apple urging them to boost production to.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) recently doubled the number of iPad tablets it is building each month to roughly 2 million, according to a research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. The news comes… Read more > >

We’re excited about the Boxee Box , and the new-look Apple TV is intriguing, but no single box is as good as a box that doesn’t exist yet does the same stuff. Confused? Sit down, let us explain

The hottest tech topics have been circulating around Apple’s latest addition: the Apple HD TV. Essentially, it is a $99 box that you connect to your TV, and it will effectively replace the need for cable television. …

The ever-so-popular Twitter recently launched an application for the Apple iPad, gathering much attention from technology blogs. The new official Twitter for.

NASA has landed on the iPad. Nearly one year after launching a free application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the US space agency has created a program for the latest device from Apple. The NASA App HD for the iPad is available for …