If you have an iPad 2 and you are on the market for a new case and keyboard to make working from the tablet easier, Belkin has a new item for you. The case is called the Keyboard Folio for iPad 2 and it launched today for $99.99. The case will protect your iPad 2 and has a nice Bluetooth keyboard inside.

That Bluetooth keyboard has TruType keys for comfortable typing and has 1.7mm of key travel. The keyboard hides under the tablet when the case is closed. The screen of the iPad can be propped at three different angles for comfortable use.

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Logitech has unveiled a new mouse they have added to their range, that has been specifically designed for Android tablets. The Logitech Tablet Mouse has been fitted with a laser sensor for smoother tracking on just about any surface, as long as its not made of glass or mirrors.

The Bluetooth equipped tablet mouse will connect seamlessly to any tablet running Android 3.1 or above and has around a 30 feet connection range.

Its powered by 2 x AA batteries and comes with its own travel pouch for protection. So if you feel the need for a dedicated tablet mouse for your Android device the ... Read more »

Earlier today we heard from Microsoft that they had asked Google to join them in the bid for the patents from Nortel related to mobile technology, the patents were purchased in the end by a consortium of companies for $4.5 billion, and the companies included Microsoft, Apple and Oracle.

Google’s David Drummond whos is Google’s Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, has responded to Microsoft and basically accused Microsoft of trying to divert attention from the real issue.

It’s not surprising that Microsoft would want to divert attention by pushing a false "gotcha!” while failing to address the substance of the issues we raised. If you think about it, it’s obvious why we turned down Microsoft’s offer. Microsoft’s obj ... Read more »

We are having a bit of a stop motion day here on Geeky Gadgets with my previous article covering the Worlds largest stop-motion movie using Post-it notes, this one has been created using the 11,000 square-foot Pendine Beach in South Wales (UK) and a Nokia N8 smartphone is also an amazing feat to pull off. Again after the break is stop animation movie together with the making of movie. Enjoy!

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We have been hearing rumors that Motorola are working on a new Android tablet for a while now, and it looks like Motorola has purchased some new domain names which could hint at the devices name.

The guys over at Fusible have discovered that Motorola have purchased MotorolaKore.com, plus a range of variations on the name, and they all center around the name Kore.

Of course they could have purchased the domain for a new smartphone, although a tablet seems more likely, and it could possibly be the companies first Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet.

As soon as we get some more information on exactly what the Motorola Kore is we will let you guys know.

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Creating the worlds largest Post-it note stop motion animation can’t be any easy feat, especially when you have to use and reposition 350,000 of those little notes outdoors.

This amazing and the worlds largest Post-it note animation to date, has been created as as an advertising campaign for a new Melissa shoe store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and took 25 animators over five months to create. Watch the video of both the animation and how they did it after the jump.

Once the animation was complete the public were then invited to come and write on the Post-it notes by adding their messages of love on the notes. As the video’s theme is "the power of love,” based on the n ... Read more »

Yesterday we saw the new TouchWiz UX user interface for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which is the first custom UI for an Android Honeycomb tablet, and Samsung have now released the TouchWiz UX user interface as an over the air update.

The new TouchWiz UX upadet brings a range of new features to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, icnluding new widgets, and a range of preloaded applications which include Amazon Music Cloud Player, Amazon Kindle, and Words With Friends from Zynga, and Samsung has also added in some enterprise solutions and services.

The update also adds in enterprise support for the Gal ... Read more »

Sapphire has announced the launch of their new Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition graphics card, which Sapphire say is the fastest production card in its class. The Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition is equipped with clock speeds of 880MHz for the core and 1300Mhz (5.2 Gb/sec effective) for the memory.

Like the standard HD 6950, the Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition boasts true DX 11 capability and the powerful configuration of 1408 stream processors and 88 texture processing units. Together with a Dual BIOS feature allowing you to experiment with alternative BIOS profiles and settings for different setups and performance tweaks.

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Treyarch has this week announced that it is currently developing a version of its highly anticipated new game Modern Warfare 3 for Nintendo’s Wii Console. Following in the footsteps of other titles such as Black Ops and Modern Warfare Reflex. The Wii will now get its own version of the game developed by Call of Duty veteran Treyarch, the team behind both previous Wii Call of Duty releases.

Robert Bowling explained on the One of Swords podcast :

"The Wii has grown so much as a platform,” - ”The great thing is Treyarch proved that you can have ... Read more »

Smart Modular Technologies has unveiled a new addition to their range of solid state drives this week with the launch of their new Smart Optimus SSD. The new Optimus SSD range is available in 200GB, 400GB, 800GB, and 1.6TB storage capacities and features read/write speeds of 100K/50K random IOPS and 500/500MB/s sustained transfer rates. Together with support for wide-port SAS capability, providing up to 1GB/s sustained read performance.

"A product that combines enhanced endurance, high capacity, and high performance at a good value would cause a dramatic shift in how storage is deployed, and it would help to drive the adoption of SSDs in the enterprise,”

Android App developers Chainfire have created a new remote control Android application allowing users to control a Canon EOS DSLR camera from the comfort of their Android smartphone or tablet.

The new application connects camera and Android device using USB and enables you to take full control of your Canon EOS using a live view. Tap the live view image to perform Auto Focus and tap-and-hold to move the zoom and focus area. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action and the setup required.

The capture button works the same as the capture button on your camera, but only does "deep” presses, not "half” press positions.

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We had heard previously that Nokia would be launching the N9 some time in September, and now Nokia has uploaded an officially countdown clock on the Nokia N9 homepage, which currently shows the N9 launching in 49 days, as of today.

That would give the Nokia N9 a launch date of the 23rd of September, and although we still don’t have any official pricing from Nokia, we have heard rumors previously that it may cost around $660 SIM free.

The Nokia N9 comes with MeeGo as its OS, and it features a 3.9 inch AMOLED multi-touch display with curved Gorilla Glass, and a a uni-body design and the body of the smartphone is made from a polycarbonate material, there is also an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, p ... Read more »

If you are a Gmail user you might be pleased to know that Google has just added a new Preview Pane feature to its Gmail Labs. The newly added preview pane allows you to view whole messages rather than just small snippets in a similar way to layouts in Outlook’s Preview Pain and also Gmail when viewed on a tablet device.

To enable the new Gmail Preview Pane simply login to your account, then go in to Labs with your settings, scroll down to the "Preview Pane” in the alphabetical list, enable and save. Once enabled you can then either view the preview pane horizontally or vertically.

By default there is a 3-second delay in marking a conversation as read after preview ... Read more »

Microsoft announced a while back that it would be killing off the Zune and concentrating its efforts on Windows Phone 7,Microsoft has released an update for some of the existing Zune HD apps as well as releasing some new Zune apps.

The existing apps to be update are the Shuffle by Album, Zune Reader, Penalty! Flick Soccer, Email, and Echoes, and they have also released a range of new applications.

the new apps released for the Zune include Finger Paint, Calendar, Trash Throw, Slider Puzzle, ColorSpill, Splatter Bug, Vine Climb, Decoder Ring, and Tug-O-Wa.

Source Gadgetsteria