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Paddle Pro- a tablet that lets you control the mouse cursor without using your hands
eviGroup have just unveiled a new tablet called the Paddle Pro. It runs Windows 7 on an Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, with WiFi and 3G connectivity, HDMI support and a special wireless TV output feature that allows you to display what you have on the tablet just by being near the TV. This tablet also packs a strange feature that isn’t present in too many devices. The Paddle Pro allows you to control the mouse cursor with the movements of your head. Using some special tracking technology, you can even click on items just by staring at them for half a second. eviGroup also claims that no adjustment or calibration is needed to use the tracker. With a battery that is claimed to have 9-hours of life, and weighing in less than 2kg, the Paddle Pro can be yours for starting from $1,347 (990 Euros). Head here for more details and purchasing info. How does the ability to control the mouse cursor by only using your head sound to you?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.