Retro Arcade Box for iPad

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Turn your 21st century iPad touch device into an 1980's mini Standup Arcade Box. The iCade "iPad Arcade Cabinet" works with hundreds of classic game titles. The iCade was shown off at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It will work out of box with an extensive Atari Library, but the iCade can work new and existing apps, as long as there developer add functionality for such in there product.

iCade is to start selling April 3rd and is listed to sell for $149.99

More info on the iCade @ http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml

Down Goes the Dome

The Blizzard that running wild in eight states, cause the roof of the Metrodome to collapse, Relocating the NFL game to Detroit for an double header on Monday night. The Dome in Minneapolis is keep in place by air pressure, once the holes are fixed it can be re-inflated. Cool video from fox news.

 

Sencha Animator, CSS3 animation tool for WebKit

An powerful desktop application to create awesome CSS3 animations for WebKit browsers and touchscreen mobile devices. This tool is just wicked It has a timeline type animation layout much like flash but for CSS3. While anyone could animate using css3 with a text editor, this tool make it so much more easy to focus on creating great content.

The final output works with any webkit enabled browser inculding iOS , Android and blackberry.  An yes It should work with phoneGap.

Some of the key things found in Sencha Animator are; 

Effects

  • Transitions and animations
  • 2D & 3D Transforms
  • Backgrounds & Borders
  • Font-Family & Variants
  • Layouts
  • Gradients & RGBA Colors
  • Text Shadows
  • Box Reflections
  • and more.

Sencha Animator works on Mac (Intel only) , Windows and Linux.

 More info and to download this awesome tool @ http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/

Children take over iPads & iPhones with Ladybugs Bookshelf.

Carus Publishing, An children's publishing company. (Also where my mother works as one of the art directors for a few of the magazines that they publish). Has Released the first of many new educational apps for iOS (iPhone and iPad.)

It neat to see what publishing companies do with this medium. Specially ones for children. If one can even imagine children having access to iPhones and iPads at ages 2-6 years old. 

I've seen many of the published magazines like Ladybug and Baby bug over the years. Carus Publishing always has had top notch art work and stories, from top notch artist and writers around the world. It looks like they added that same class of craftsmanship to these apps as well. (Nice Job!)

If you have an children in the age range of 2-6 then check out Ladybugs Bookshelf, free download with in app purchases.

More info @ http://www.cricketmag.com/iphone

iTunes App Store (web) @ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ladybugs-bookshelf/id392049880?mt=8

Or open launch iTunes direct to download it @ http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cricket-magazine-group-ethervision/id392049883