The Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter was probably the coolest thing ever controlled via iPhone or iPod touch… until this. Dave Phipps has hooked up a ‘69 Pontiac GTO to his iPod touch — he’s been rebuilding these cars for a long time, and this particular one was picked up out of a farm for just $400. Read more…

Another analyst believes with ‘increased confidence’ that Apple will make a big splash this summer with a new iPhone form factor.

Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes writes,

“iPad yields should improve dramatically throughout the year even if the launch starts out capacity constrained. These developments support upside to consensus forecasts for the iPad Read more…

The developer of SpringBoard Rotator, the tweak of which we have spoken several times, has just announced via Twitter that by the weekend, the application will be sent to Saurik to be included in Cydia Store.  Read more…

Robot Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

A new test of touchscreen smartphones with a precise laboratory robot has confirmed what a human test already concluded: Apple’s iPhone touchscreen is far and away the most accurate touch panel on the market.

The test, conducted by MOTO Labs, compared an iPhone using the SimpleDraw application with a number of other touchscreen smartphones: Google Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, HTC Droid Eris, and BlackBerry Storm 2. As the company, which has no relation to Motorola, discovered earlier this year, the iPhone is in first, followed by the Google Nexus One in a distant second place. Read more…

Zits & Giggles is an useless app created by the developer Tommy Refenes, he created Zits & Giggles to proof that people pay a lot of money for junk apps. All you can do in this app is destroy pimples. At the point Apple removed Zits & Giggles it was available for 400 dollar, and still got sold. Read more…

I’ve enjoyed reviewing some of the clever magic tricks that are getting developed for the iPhone over the last year, and I want to be sure to point out Magic Card which is clever and will likely fool the uninitiated.

Here’s what the spectator sees: a person cuts the deck to select a card, which is kept face down. You use your iPhone to take a picture of the card, either alone on the table, or as I prefer at the top of the stack. The spectator sees you select the camera icon and take the picture. To be sure the picture wasn’t taken in advance the spectator can put something in the picture like a ring or tableware next to the card to prove it. Read more…

Earlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple’s Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple’s products and technology in the field. In addition to having the most awesome name ever, Maj. Gen. Justice also heads the US Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He’s reportedly interested in moving the Army away from the custom-built “big green box” electronics that the Army has used over the past decades; instead, Justice wants the Army to investigate existing solutions from the commercial sector, including Apple’s portable lines. Read more…

Element was suppose to be the next best thing since Lockinfo and Intelliscreen but it looked like all was lost when news about this new spectacular tweak stopped going around. Finally a week ago we have gotten some confirmation that it is still in the works and it looks great.

Ignite Toronto 3: Jon Lax – Element: Redesigning the iPhone homescreen from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo.

Note: The medical opinions expressed in this post are anecdotal in nature and represent the non-professional experiences of one blogger. It’s true that some people have had success with trigger point therapy. However, it is our recommendation that Ms. Levitz and any person suffering with carpal tunnel or a repetitive stress injury should follow the advice of his/her physician or other certified medical professional.

File this under “what did you expect?” Annie Levitz, a sixteen year old from Mundelein, IL has been sending 4,000 text messages a month. Yes, FOUR THOUSAND. She began to feel tingling, pain and numbness in her hands and went to her doctor who diagnosed her the the RSI injury, carpal tunnel syndrome. She’s had cortisone injections and will need surgery. But Annie thinks there’s another solution — switching to an iPhone. “I do think that since it’s touch it won’t be as rough on my hands,” she said. Read more…

When the 2010 baseball season began, I knew I wanted to buy MLB At Bat for a friend. Unfortunately there was no way to do that directly, so I had to settle for a Gift Certificate. Then I discovered that Gift Certificates are only available in $10 increments, starting at $10 and ending at $50. Read more…