First there was an HP TouchPad fire sale at $99. Now, it looks like it’s RIM’s turn to showcase their hot 7″ tablet. A flyer was posted to the RedFlagDeals forums (check out their new iPhone app) that shows Walmart Canada started selling the Playbook for $198 for the 16GB model. The 32GB and 64GB models are $298 and $398.

The sale started today in Quebec (until November … Read More

The popular location-based social networking service Foursquare has just introduced a cool web app for iPad that brings a whole new HTML-5 experience. While most of the features resemble the native iPhone app, the web app further augments it with new social discovery capabilities optimized for tablets, especially the iPad.

The first thing you’ll notice when you load up foursquare.com and login on iPad is a big map … Read More

Goodnight iPad from Blue Rider Press is a parody picture book, gently reminding us “power down at the end of the day”, a must-have for the gadget-crazy kid in all of us. The author promises the picture book will make you laugh and it help you wrest yourself away from your gadgets and put yourself and your machines to sleep. Don’t worry, though. Your gadgets will be waiting for you, fully charged, in … Read More

According to a new report by DigiTimes, Apple will most likely introduce a new LED back-light technology in next-gen iPads. It is heavily rumored that the next generation iPad will sport a Retina resolution display. In order to maintain the brightness of such high resolution panels, the current single LED light bar designed for the iPad 2 needs to be modified as explained by sources in the supply chain.

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Apple last week released a note iOS 5 suffered from battery issues, and that an update would be released in a few weeks to address them. Also, shortly after iOS 5.0.1 beta was released to developers.

In the release notes, we’ve been told it notes the original iPad will receive Multitasking Gestures when iOS 5.0.1 is available. Currently, these Multitasking Gestures are exclusive to the iPad 2. In earlier … Read More

Apple.ca now has refurbished iPad 2 units available, with discounts in the range of 5-9% off the regular retail prices, which works out to $50 in savings.

Here are the refurbished prices:

16GB iPad 2 WiFi (white/black): $469 (save $50)
32GB iPad 2 WiFi (white/black): $569 (save $50)
64GB iPad 2 WiFi (white/black): $669 (save $50)

16GB iPad 2 WiFi + 3G (white/black): $599 (save $50)
32GB iPad 2 WiFi + 3G (white/black): $699 (save … Read More

Yep, you read that correct! This insanely expensive iPad 2 is actually crafted with real dinosaur bones in addition to solid gold and studded diamonds. Stuart Hughes, the luxury custom gadgets designer from Liverpool has come up with yet another masterpiece for the world’s most elite rich called the iPad 2 Gold History Edition. The iPad 2′s back is made of solid gold, the Apple logo and the home button … Read More

A guy named Mark Rober who also works for NASA, has figured out something really cool for a costume this Halloween. Using a ripped sweatshirt, some red paint and two iPad 2′s strapped around your body, you can create an incredible “freaky hole effect”. Using the same idea, you could also use two iPhones for a hole in your head or something.

As described by Gizmodo:

“It’s really pretty simple. You … Read More

This is so far the best thing I’ve come across on the internet this Halloween. Magician Simon Pierro has created an amazing Halloween edition of his unique iPad magic “blending his special brand of prestidigitation with carefully constructed digital wizardry”, as put into words by Mashable. According to the source, he spent 10 weeks putting together this video.

Pierro told Mashable:

“Luckily my iOS programmer Masashi Beheim again joined the … Read More

All of us have been eagerly waiting for an iPad 2 jailbreak beyond iOS 4.3.3 and as it seems, the wait is finally over. Just moments ago, @MuscleNerd of Dev-Team has pushed a demo video to show the world an iPad 2 running smoothly after a jailbreak on iOS 5 with full support for Newsstand.

As we are all very well aware that iOS 5 jailbreak on other … Read More