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It's hard to imagine life without the iPod today. Although it wasn't the first portable MP3 player released, the iPod extracted the best elements from its early competitors, and morphed them into a product that defined portable technology and changed the way listeners experience music.

British broadcaster Sky has begun making its 3D content available to users of the Nintendo 3DS following a deal with Nintendo which was announced way back in January. The first 3D content is a trailer for the upcoming Sky series Meerkats 3D, but there is more on the way.

Wait, Newsstand? A special folder just for digital magazines and newspapers? Meh! Lets just go ahead and delete th… oh, you can't. It's okay, we'll just put it into another folder and… nope, you can't do that either. Well, you can - you're just not supposed to. The Internet Hivemind has found a way.

The iPhone 4S is physically more or less identical to its predecessor. If you want to be special, however, there is a way to make your new toy stand out from the rest and shine in many magnificent colors. A company called ColorWare will change the colour of your phone but this comes at quite a price. $1500  for a 16 GB model, $1,700 for a 64 GB one, or $250 if you opt to send your iPhone 4S to ColorWare and let them work their magic with it.

Before the highly anticipated book about Steve Jobs' bio by Walter Isaacson comes out. This small page shows a small peak of Steve Jobs' bio, what he says and what he will leave behind. He mentions something about Hewlett Packard, as he stated that they had created such an excellent company, but now it's being dismembered and destroyed, and he didn't want that to happen to Apple the same way. R.I.P. Steve Jobs, truly a great and different mind.

Another day, another iPhone rumor.  This one, however, comes from the a highly trusted source of a well-known blog, and not just some analyst trying to fill their quota of predictions before leaving for the weekend.  According to Boy Genius Report, Apple is preparing both a low-cost prepaid handset as well as the next iteration in the family of smartphones. also, lets not forget about the long expected iPhone 5 release

With all these new eReaders, one has to wonder what's happened to the good old-fashioned library. Libraries are now using eBook checkouts, which have increased by more than 200% since 2010. Some may still prefer reading the classic paper copies - that's still available, they are libraries after all. But, this is a good way to appeal to the younger generation and keep on top of the trends, no less.

Sweden's Jays have released the new t-JAYS. Ever listen to music and just hate the way your headphones look? With these new headphones, you can look cool while listening to music on your iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Sounds like a really bad infomercial, but these guys sell for $129 a pop, with 10mm drivers, a 360 MEMS microphone and a three button controller. If you've got the money, go for it, and improve your listening and music life.

As we all know global warming and pollution are two big problems in this generation. Well two companies in Montreal and Maryland are trying to help this issue. Global warming is probably one of the biggest problems we are going through and the best solution fo this would be to stop using our cars to travel short distances, but most of us know we won't be able to do that. These two companies realize this and are trying to allow us to use our cars but also help with global warming in a major way. They are trying to use common waste materials from landfills heating it up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit and then using that energy to power something or to heat things up. I believe that this will go very far especially because people cant live without their own cars.  

Siri is so well known on the new iPhone 4s, maybe it should come to the iPad. And it has...kind of. A week after Siri was made to run on the iPhone 4, some progress was made in getting Siri to also operate on the iPad 1. However, be aware that it will not work exactly the same. It will operate on any jail-broken iPhone 4 and iPad 1 devices, remember that it is made to work on an iPhone 4s, so it will not function properly if it is used on anything BUT the iPhone 4s. Apple is limiting Siri's hardware specifically to the iPhone 4s, so they can control how well Siri can grow, and so it can support everyone on it for sure. I think that they should lift the restrictions, that way more people can have access to their latest achievement, and the world can move forward in technology.

Why isn't apple releasing an 7 inch iPad. They say its just isn't apples way. They don't want to change the price just because its a smaller iPad so they rather keep their iPad stay the same size as it is.

These are the 10 most useful commands to use on the new iPhone voice assistant feature. Tell it, and it will set alarms, find locations, give directions, play music, send texts, tell weather forecasts, find online answers to questions and connect with twitter.

the emoticon is almost 30 years old. Twenty-nine years ago, Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, first proposed a colon, hyphen and bracket as a way of conveying emotional meaning via plain text. now it has evolved into hundreds of different ways to convey emotions associated with texts

New to the world of phones and transactions alike: the Blackberry Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 are the first SIM-based smartphones to earn the "MasterCard PayPass Certification." This means that MasterCard thinks the phones are advanced and secure enough to handle MasterCard's NFC-based Paypass system. Now that this has been decided, any MasterCard Paypass-issuing bank can give a PayPass account to the SIM card in these phones. As a Vice President of RIM puts it, this is a "significant step forward in the way we use mobile devices for payments." Indeed, VP, indeed. This quite the large leap for Blackberry, and Blackberry users alike, as it will affect the way we do our business and transactions, and therefore out everyday lives. Jealous, Apple & Co.? 

The latest in RIM's collection of Blackberry's have now been deemed secure enough to handle Mastercard's pay pass system which means that when one of these phones SIM cards is encrypted with a pay pass account it will allow the user to make payments from their Mastercard account through their smartphone

As an eReader owner, I find this very interesting. On an eReader, you can highlight sections of a passage in an eBook and it will save it for future reference. Now, Findings, a social corporation, has turned into "an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss, and discover such highlights from eBooks and web texts," which basically means that you can now share your highlights with the world on Findings. Not very impressive, I know, but for an eReader owner, it is useful. You can look up someone else's saved passages from a book you don't even own, so there's a way this technology can help you out in this world - save a couple dollars.

The new locking handbag is one sure-fire way to protect yourself from thieves and pickpockets. Plus, it looks a little daunting. It requires a security combination to open, and once opened, the handle can be looped around shopping carts, public benches, and anywhere else a theft may take place. Made from Tonka-tough copolymer plastic, it is harder than leather and other fabrics to open, it also happens to be dirt and waterproof, making it practical and useful, for, say, the beach. Not the most beautiful thing, but very useful and helpful for people everywhere, especially the incredibly paranoid.

Apparently, Facebook has released a statement saying that around 600,000 log-ins are compromised every day. And their solution? Find three to five "trusted friends." This way, if you're locked out of your account, Facebook will send codes to your friends to give to you, that will let you back on to them. They are also testing out some app passwords that the company will create on their own, and you won't need to remember them at all. Kind of pathetic after everything else they've done, but if it truly does work, why complain? 

Cameras are so annoying. Like, you have to HOLD them to take a picture! Honestly. As you've no doubt thought at least once before in your life, while taking a picture, "can I just throw the camera?" Well, apparently the people from this company have, and so created a camera that you can throw that takes pictures, and have thus christened it, the "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera." Suitable name. This camera can allegedly take 360-degree panoramic photos, simply by throwing it up into the air, which is probably where they got its name from. You throw the camera directly into the air, and when it reaches the apex, all 36 cameras automatically take a picture. Using a specific computer program, these pictures are digitally stitched together, and you are able to navigate your own way through the 360-degree picture. Watch the video, and you'll see that the results are very impressive. The drawbacks? The ball cannot spin when it is thrown up into the air, and don't even THINK about dropping it, because despite the foam padding, it will be ruined if it drops. Maybe you should bring a catcher's mitt on your trip. And it's HUGE. Like, soccer ball huge. Where on Earth are you going to put this thing, anyways? Certainly not in a purse or a pocket. Innovative, and a step forward from the old-fashioned cameras everyone still uses today, and yet very impractical.

with the technology that a fighter plane, we can use it to help people drive better. bmw is now using HUDs which stands for Heads-up Display. its pretty much a light that is reflected on the windshield to show information about the car such as speed or gps. Apperently it helps drivers to keep their eyes on the road.

Flipboard has some competition coming its way. With Google and Yahoo both -reportedly- coming out with their own applications for tablets that is suppose to be coming out next week.  the application there coming out with is called Livestand that looks and feels exactly like the AOL's Edition app that`s for the iPad. the functions that Livestand can be personalized, magazine-like publication that has dynamic content and with video-based advertising. Well see if Livestand can stack up.