Yes, misleading name is misleading. What’s more when you can easily misinterpret the name of the product? The bag that you see above is called the Booq Boa Push bag, for your delicate iPad and other iDevices. There’re plenty of iPad bags out there that might be rather charming, but many of ‘em lack pockets for your Sherlock Holmes gadgets. Moreover, I have to be frank that this bag looks very ‘man’, having the ‘manliness’ all over it. Surely the asking price of $90 won’t be a problem for you, since you can also ‘multifunction’ it not only for your iPad. Do we have a winner here?

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It’s rare to see Sony venturing into gaming gears even though the company is famous for their PlayStation consoles. Sony has thrown in a new ‘gaming’ headphone into the buzzling lucrative market of gaming gears. How to outdo and outsell others? Well, Sony says that their new DR-GA500 headphones have “7.1 channel digital surround sound for first person shooters.” But wait, don’t they all say that? Meh!

I think Sony should instead market their new headphone as a Tron-cosplaying headphone, all thanks to the cool looking design. Actually, besides the gimmicky “virtual 7.1 channel digital surround sound”, the headphones have an external audio processor that supports Dolby Pro Logic IIx and simulates sound immersion in game environments with only two 40mm drivers. It also comes with a boom mic to chat. For now, it’s Europe only, sadly. Aw you, you luckily Brits.

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School’s starting again boys and girls. Summer’s ending, so it’s time to get some of your gears ready for school. How about a premium IEM for your iPod, or iPhone, or Android? Sounds like a good idea! Audio equipment maker Bose will have some new in-ear headphones available on at the end of the month: The IE2, the MIE2, and the MIE2i. The latter two headphones are designed specifically for mobile phones — in-line microphones and all. Great for all you kids that keep on ‘txtin n listen 2 mp3 while da teacher iz teachin in claz o while ur otw hom’.

The IE2 and MIE2 will be available on August 23rd for $100 and $30 respectively while the MIE2i will be available in October for $130. Well maybe not a fairly reasonable price for you kids. Might need to ‘eco’ for a month or two. But since you can easily afford an ‘ipong’ easily, this shouldn’t be a problem for you. Meh!

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Well ladies and gentleman, hold your shoes please. Get ready to embrace speedy and zappy smartphones. Qualcomm, the company behind the hugely popular Snapdragon processor used by plenty of smartphones and other electronic devices, is gearing up to launch a higher clock speed Snapdragon processor. How does 1.5GHz sound to you? Read more…

Microsoft’s Windows Home Server build, codename Vail, has been under the horizon as of recent, but out of sudden Microsoft has released the second major beta release. No changelog or new features has been listed, and Microsoft only has this to say: ‘plenty of enhancements and improvements over the original.’

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We all love to drool over crazy concept ideas that majority are absurd and impossible to be achieved in the near future, while some might only be achievable in the far future of say, fifty years’ time. Now Ikea, the famous Swedish furniture chain has an idea for our kitchen. Commissioning a report from The Future Laboratory (a London-based think tank organization), they show to us the kitchen of the future. It’s simply fabulous and crazy. How wacky? They implement the “sixth generation” iPads into the concept.

Also known as the ‘mood kitchen’, the kitchen will ‘somehow read our vibes’ and adjust lighting and music to adapt, besides providing dining and diet recommendations. The concept includes self-cleaning appliances, celebrity chefs’ projection, or should I say “hologram-ed” into your kitchen. It would be a lot cooler if it’s Sarah Kerrigan talking to me instead of some noisy celebrity chefs. Oh, there’s also 3D food printing, which I’m not really sure what that means. Origami food, anyone? Anyway, it’s a good thing to be optimistic about future concepts. If not, where do all our fancy looking toys come from? Keep up the good work guys. At least our kitchen don’t look like something from Wall-E, with obese humans flying around.

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Many have already notice, but some might not. But luck so far is that none of the Sarah Kerrigan’s followers have been dining in fire, yet. It came to our notice that Blizzard had somehow, in some way forgotten to cap the frame rates of the game while you’re in the single-player’s menu, like for example the JoeyRay’s bar, the Bridge of the Hyperion and some others. Read more…

I’ve seen many crazy computer mods, wacky designs of chassis and stuff many that are out of this world but this attempt to squeeze in a functional MacBook Air into an Apple Keyboard really shows that he did it for the ‘lulz’. Not that it’s wrong actually. Keyboard PCs mods have been around for ages, but have never caught on in a big way though. Modder Bart Reardon seemed to try and make a point by ripping apart his perfectly working MacBook Air and fit ‘em underneath an Apple keyboard and a Magic Trackpad. He’s nearly done, and is looking for better replacement for those tapes that hold ‘em all together. Somehow looks like an Asus Eee Keyboard, minus the touchscreen panel. Read more…

SplitFish might not be as famous as those big shots like SteelSeries, Razer, and Roccat, but it sure has some reputation of its own. SplitFish has announced that its latest FragFX Shark controller for the PS3, PC and Mac will be officially making its debut over at Gamescon later this month. Not much information is revealed for these new gears, other than being “ecology-friendly”, which SplitFish says is courtesy of their new power-saving technologies that’ll let you game for 50 hours from a single AA battery. Besides the Shark controller, there’s also the Piranha and Barracuda which are also PS3 controllers. Not the best looking mouse out there actually, but they sounds awfully like another snake brand.

“I love being able to use a MOUSE for FPS on any platform,” commented Dozier. “Demonstrating SPLITFISH’s intelligent, high performance gear for playing FPS on game consoles versus standard type controllers, gives me an opportunity to show why mouse gaming on a console for me is hands down no brainer. The FRAGFX SHARK is the new standard for what console FPS gaming should be.”

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Sony is rumoured to be preparing on the launch of their next Reader duo, which will replace their current line-up. Something along the name of PRS-350 and PRS-650, the new models will boast E Ink displays and be thinner and slightly longer compared to the existing models. Dimension wise, their thickness is reported to be less than 10mm, while the 650 will boast a 6-inch display and the 350 a 5-inch panel. The 650 will receive a memory jump to 2GB besides 3G and Wi-Fi support, but it is unknown whether the 350 will follow suite. Software wise, the Reader UI might have a facelift of some kind, maybe a slightly small remodelling or makeup. Price for both of the Readers isn’t known yet as of now.

SOURCE via Sony Insider