davidthefishman | May 05, 2010Fishman finishes his ipad install
scosche | April 30, 2010iPad car stand from Scosche. The new iPad car mount allows it to rotate from driver to passenger. This video shows how easy the installation is for the iPad holder. The new dash kit for the iPad is demonstrated replacing your stereo. Web - http://www.scosche.com -- Twitter -http://twitter.com/scosche -- Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/Scosche -- Doug Broadhurst and Ted Lopez demonstrate the installation in a Subaru STi.
BMW will be showing their newly developed BMW Original Accessories at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. This will include the those that are specifically developed for smartphones, laptops and the iPad. With these technology devices a constant in the lives of many BMW owners, having these accessories really adds comfort and convenience. BMW offers extended functionality and a higher level of integration so that drivers and passengers can use computer and mobile devices safely inside the car.The BMW iPad holder will make its debut in the new BMW X3 and will soon make its way to other models in 2011. The Apple iPad can be used horizontally or vertically in the holder, depending on passengers’ preferences. Whether it be for office or leisure use, this holder would be perfect for iPad owners.As an additional feature, the iPad can be connected to an ad-hoc WiFi hotspot using an internet-compatible mobile phone or data-enabled SIM card. Because of the Bluetooth interface previosly launched by BMW for the Apple iOS 4, it also allows the integration of the new Apple iPhone 4 and iPod.In 2011, BMW will introduce a new interface technology that will enable all new BMW models to support the new iPod Out function of iOS 4.
Why the iPad will take over the worldThe iPad is a disruptive innovation.By Edmund Conway Retail and consumer Last updated: November 12th, 2010Apple is on the verge of releasing the latest iteration in its operating system for the iPhone and iPad. Sometime in the coming months, it is also likely to bring out a newly beefed up version of the iPad. These may not seem like particularly momentous moments to anyone but the more die-hard Apple evangelists, but for me they have underlined the fact that this little tablet is heading for domination of the mobile computing industry.Before you dismiss this as hype, I should emphasise that this conclusion has come only after some months of reflection, consideration and intense usage of an iPad, and comparison with its competitors. I was one of those fools who bought an iPad right at the beginning, when they were just out in the US and were yet to touch down in Britain. I picked it up in Washington, where I was attending the IMF’s summit, more out of hope and curiosity than an expectation that it would change my life. And the truth is I was initially rather disappointed.I bought it wondering whether it would be the tool that meant I could throw away my laptop. And so I tried, over the following days, to use it as a journalistic tool – I tried to write articles on it (using the bluetooth keyboard – typing on the screen isn’t bad, but it isn’t brilliant), take notes with it, use it to read the IMF reports and send emails back home. It was an unmitigated disaster. I lost some of my most important notes because one of the applications kept crashing (this is not good news when you’re a journalist – and fellow hacks are, understandably, reluctant to share notes at the best of times); cutting and pasting text (quite important when you routinely have to edit and re-edit your articles) was fiddly; there wasn’t a word count in Pages, the main word processing application; you couldn’t switch between different applications (multi-tasking); you couldn’t search with PDF files (disastrous if you are trying to navigate a 300 page report on banking regulation), etc etc.I never wrote this at the time (far too much going on with elections, expenses and whatnot), but my abiding feeling was that I had bought the iPad hoping to dispel all those people who said they couldn’t see the point of it – and I had come out agreeing with them. What was the point of this device? Not good enough to double as a laptop, not small enough to fit in your pocket, not easy-on-the-eye to read for long periods in the same way as a Kindle. Jack of all trades and master of none – or so I thought.What I hadn’t realised was that this is pretty much the point. The iPad is a disruptive innovation. Disruption, for those of you who, like me until recently, aren’t familiar with business theory, is one of the ways companies upend their bigger and older competitors in business these days. The gist is as follows: when a business comes along with an innovative product that challenges an existing one, it is often cheaper, of lower quality and is often deemed “not good enough” by potential customers.Think of mp3s – their sound quality is far inferior to CDs, but customers realised pretty soon that they were both cheaper, more convenient and of a just about satisfactory quality. When personal computers first arrived, those who built powerful mainframe room-sized computers dismissed them as incapable – and indeed they were often so slow that they couldn’t keep up with the people typing into them. But the point behind disruption is that in due course the quality of the product gets to a standard that is acceptable to consumers (and if not better than the incumbent product, it is at least cheaper). Right now, flash memory is disrupting hard disks. And so on.The graph below tells the story: sustaining technologies, such as hard disks, or dedicated digital cameras, improve over time, but eventually reach a standard beyond what most consumers, and perhaps even high end users are after. Into the market comes the disrupting technology, for instance flash memory or cameraphones, whose qualities (be they size or picture quality) are initially well below the standards of the sustaining technology but are compensated by their cheaper price or added convenience. Sometimes a whole new range of customers enters the market at this lower price/quality point. Eventually the quality of the disrupting product can surpass the old sustaining one.susdir2The iPad is disruptive to notebook computers: in its first iterations it doesn’t meet the exacting standards that many computer users have, so it is not an obvious replacement. It wasn’t good enough for me as a journalist; or indeed for anyone who wants to use their laptop for photo manipulation, DJing, game playing and so on. But it is good enough for many others.It is good enough for students, for instance. Since returning to college, I have found myself using the iPad more and more. It is smaller than the laptop, I can use it to read as well as take notes and write. It still isn’t brilliant for article editing, but it more or less does the job (and given I don’t have to pump out articles at the rate I did as a professional journalist, so be it). I produced this blog (and indeed have written almost all of my recent blogs, papers, essays and all the stuff one needs to produce at college) on it. A couple of weeks ago my laptop spontaneously combusted. It didn’t matter, because by then I hadn’t been using it for some months anyway.The imminent update to the iOS takes the iPad one step forward. In comes multitasking, in comes midi support and a host of other upgrades that, gradually, remove more demanding customers’ resistance to shifting down the iPad. Then along will come the next iteration, with higher resolution and more power, making it less attractive, in comparison, to own a laptop, and so on and so on.It isn’t just the iPad that’s doing the disruption; it looks increasingly as if Apple’s existing operating system, Mac OS, will soon be disrupted by its mobile OS, which has been inserted as a kind of trojan horse into the next update of Mac OS..
OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy.Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before.He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it — just barely — and opened the application Gravitarium, which plays music as users create landscapes of stars on the screen. Over the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try.“We have spent all this time keeping him alive, and now we owe him more than that,” said his mother, Ellen Goldstein, a vice president at the Times Square Alliance business association. “I see his ability to communicate and to learn as a big part of that challenge — not all of it, but a big part of it. And so, that’s my responsibility.”Since its debut in April, the iPad has become a popular therapeutic tool for people with disabilities of all kinds, though no one keeps track of how many are used this way, and studies are just getting under way to test its effectiveness, which varies widely depending on diagnosis.A speech pathologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center uses text-to-speech applications to give patients a voice. Christopher Bulger, a 16-year-old in Chicago who injured his spine in a car accident, used an iPad to surf the Internet during the early stages of his rehabilitation, when his hands were clenched into fists. “It was nice because you progressed from the knuckle to the finger to using more than one knuckle on the screen,” he said.Parents of autistic children are using applications to teach them basic skills, like brushing teeth and communicating better.For a mainstream technological device like the iPad to have been instantly embraced by the disabled is unusual. It is far more common for items designed for disabled people to be adapted for general use, like closed-captioning on televisions in gyms or GPS devices in cars that announce directions. Also, most mainstream devices do not come with built-ins like the iPad’s closed-captioning, magnification and audible readout functions — which were intended to keep it simple for all users, but also help disabled people.“Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money,” said Gregg C. Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has worked on accessibility issues for decades.Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, who wrote recently enacted legislation that will require mobile devices to be more accessible to users with disabilities, said approximately three-fourths of communications and video devices need to be adapted for blind and deaf people. “Apple,” he said in a statement, “is an outlier when it comes to devices that are accessible out of the box.”The iPad is also, generally speaking, less expensive than computers and other gadgets specifically designed to help disabled people speak, read or write. While insurers usually do not cover the cost of mobile devices like the iPad because they are not medical equipment, in some cases they will pay for the applications that run on them.In Owen’s case, his grandmother bought him a $600 iPad in August, and his parents have invested about $200 more in software. One day this summer, his finger dangled over the title page of “Alice in Wonderland” on his iPad while his mother hovered over his shoulder in their Brooklyn home. Then, with the tiniest of movements, and thanks to the sensitivity of the iPad’s touch screen, Owen began to turn the pages of the book. “You are reading a book on your own, Owen!” Ms. Goldstein, 44, exclaimed. “That is completely wonderful.”But while the sensitivity of the iPad’s touch screen makes it promising for Owen, it can be problematic for others, like Glenda Watson Hyatt, a blogger in Surrey, British Columbia, who has cerebral palsy. “When ‘flipping’ screens, sometimes I flip more than one screen,” Ms. Hyatt wrote in an interview conducted by e-mail. “Or I touch what I didn’t intend to.”Still, Ms. Hyatt said that when she was having trouble chatting with friends at a bar recently, she pulled out her iPad to help communicate and felt normal. “People were drawn to it because it was a ‘recognized’ or ‘known’ piece of technology,” she wrote in a blog post reviewing the device.At the Shepherd Center, a spinal cord rehabilitation clinic in Atlanta, some teenage quadriplegics have received iPads as gifts, but they do not work well for those who rely on a mouse stick — basically a long pen controlled by mouth.“It wants to see a finger,” said John Anschutz, the manager of the assistive technology program at Shepherd. “It really requires the quality of skin and body mass to operate.”For Owen Cain, whose disease is physical, not mental, the iPad has limitations, too. Moving his finger all the way across the keypad remains a challenge, and makes writing difficult. Ms. Goldstein said its versatility and affordability, though, were a boon. He has been experimenting with a variety of applications — Proloquo2Go, which allows him to touch an icon that prompts the device to speak things like, “I need to go to the bathroom”; Math Magic, which helps him practice arithmetic; and Animal Match, a memory game.“If all you’re worrying about is ‘I can try this program, or I can try that program, I can buy that app or I can buy this app,’ and the investment is so much lower,” his mother said, “then our ability to explore or experiment with different things is so much bigger.”When Owen was about 8 weeks old, his mother noticed his right arm drooping. It led to a crushing diagnosis: the motor-neuron disease known as spinal muscular atrophy Type 1. A 2003 New York Times article about spinal muscular atrophy said his parents had been told Owen would be “paralyzed for his life, which doctors predicted would last no more than about two years.”Owen will turn 8 on Nov. 11. While his condition is not expected to worsen, he is extremely sensitive to infection and once nearly died of pneumonia; three specialized therapists and a nurse help keep him alive.Though he cannot speak, his parents have taught him to read, write and do math. He has an impish sense of humor and a love of “Star Wars.” “He’s a normal child trapped in a not normal body,” said his father, Hamilton Cain, 45, a book editor.Since he received the iPad, Owen has been trying to read books, and playing around with apps like Air Guitar. And, one day, he typed out on the keypad, “I want to be Han Solo for Halloween.”
AS one chapter closes another opens. As the administrator to the parent company of Angus & Robertson and Borders bookstores flagged mass closures yesterday, Apple was about to launch iPad2, the latest iteration in tablet and e-reader technology.Apple's innovation is predicted to turbocharge the tablet market over coming months, just as the first iPad did this time last year.New research from Boston Consulting Group suggests both the iPad and its tablet rivals from companies such as Dell, Toshiba and Samsung will have a big influence on the growth of e-books, newspapers and magazines.The survey of more than 14,000 consumers in 16 markets around the world, including Australia, predicted that e-books would ride on the back of the popularity of tablets as the next "must have" device.Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.Patrick Forth, head of BCG's Asia-Pacific media practice, said already 54 per cent of Australian consumers were familiar with tablets and e-readers, a 14 per cent jump on a year ago.He said that dedicated e-readers had prepared the market for more advanced multimedia tablets."Australians voiced a willingness to pay between $100 and $150 for single-purpose readers and $200 to $300 for multi-purpose devices," Mr Forth said."These prices are 15 per cent to 80 per cent higher than US consumers are prepared to pay."He said that tablets had been adopted much faster than their immediate predecessor, netbooks.Many consumers had a clear intention of buying one of the devices."47 per cent of people were clearly familiar with them and indicated they would purchase one within the next year," he said.According to Mr Forth, device availability is going to become less of an issue for publishers and content distributors over the next year.Customers that were already using the devices were already demonstrating behaviours that newspaper, magazine and book publishers would welcome, he said."Consumers have a strong interest in digital content -- 38 per cent of Australian e-reader/tablet owners currently read digital newspapers, and 75 per cent of potential e-reader/tablet owners expect to read digital newspapers," he said."Their reasons revolve around convenience: in delivery, purchase and in not having to carry around heavy print copies."Australians signalled they would pay between $4 and $10 for books and monthly magazine subscriptions and between $7 and $15 for monthly newspaper subscriptions on tablets.Bookseller Dymocks, which adopted an e-reader strategy three years ago, said there would be a clear trend towards digital books on tablets in the coming year."We are certainly seeing a profusion of customers going with the multi-format approach," Dymocks general manager of e-commerce Michael Allara said."We are a long way from a high penetration of reading devices, but we will see a high rate of change over the next 12 months, but that is coming off a small base."
Our test finds new iPad hits 116 degrees while running games"We also noticed that the new iPad wasn't charging while the game was running and it was plugged in. In fact, the battery continued to drain. It charged normally, however, when we weren't running a game."
