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Eager to plunge your Companion Cube through a gravity-defying dimensional riff in pursuit of the ephemeral promise of imaginary cake? Dying to invisibly sneak up on a sandwich-munching Heavy and slide a butterfly knife between his vertrebrae? Have a zombie-killing date scheduled with three buddies in New Orleans' French district? Want to do all of [...:]

I-Tube iPhone Case Is Totally Tubular [Review]

Tube a company from Biel/Bienne, Switzerland makes an iPhone case out of old used bicycle tires. The tubes are collected from bicycle dealers and are specifically from the 80s. So i-tubes are totally green and retro at the same time. Shut up!
Note: It's Case Week on CultofMac.com. We're checking out some of the latest and [...:]

Case-Mate's ID Card Case Slims Your iPhone's Profile [Review]

You know the dilemma. You're going out to the club with your friends and you don't want to take your bulky wallet and your iPhone, but you need them both. The ID Credit Card case from Case-Mate has got your back! The ID case allows you to bring both your ID and your credit card [...:]

iPad Camera Connection Kit Now Available For Pre-Order

The iPad has a lot of untapped potential as an image editing tablet… but the only way to load your images on-the-go is to lug a laptop around with you or spring for the iPad Camera Connection Kit, which gives users a couple of options to load images on their iPad: either by connecting their [...:]

Leave The Wallet At Home With Sena's Walletskin iPhone Case [Review]

Just like a Reese's Cup with its perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate, the Sena Walletskin case has taken two great items, an iPhone and a wallet and combined them into one great wallet case.
Note: It's Case Week on CultofMac.com. We're checking out some of the latest and greatest iPhone cases on the market. Read [...:]

NPD: 51% of 18-34 Year Olds Would Prefer Notebook to iPad

The iPad may be selling like gangbusters, but an interesting survey done by NPD suggests that it's still not the ideal device for a slim majority of computer users: amongst surveyed 18-34 year olds, 51% said they would rather have a more conventional portable like a laptop or netbook than an iPad. Even Apple owners [...:]

Video: The App Store on the iPad

If you"re curious about how you'll browse the App Store on your iPad, look no further than this video.
It's a familiar and intuitive experience. In short, it's more like browsing the App Store through iTunes on your Mac than launching the App Store on your iPhone, with apps displayed in multiple columns and big, [...:]

Apple Begins Shipping iPad Preorders

According to 9to5Mac, Apple has started sending out shipping notifications to the earliest iPad pre-order customers.
WiFi only, of course. Curiously, even though it's only March 29th, those who chose expedited shipping are being told to expect delivery on April 3rd. Don't expect yours early… but do expect a lot of incremental iPad status updates [...:]

Analyst: Apple Could Sell 8-10M iPads This Year

Apple could ship 8-10 million iPads in 2010, or 2.5 million tablet devices within the first three months of this year, one analyst told investors Monday. If correct, the amount would far exceed the prevailing Wall Street expectation for 5 million iPads for all of calendar year 2010.
Morgan Stanley analyst Kat Huberty said her [...:]

Report: Apple to Launch iAd Mobile Advertising Network on April 7th

According to Steve Jobs (as relayed by MediaPost, a mere four days after putting the iPad in eager customers hands, Apple's going to launch the "next big thing," a new "revolutionary" service to take the tech world by storm. But it's not going to be a gadget. It's an advertising network.
Meet iAd, another [...:]