Poetry fans can make their own poems on the iPhone and iPod touch
using Apple’s touch technology thanks to Neutrino’s PoetrySinger
(http://neutrinosllc.com/products/iphone/applications/poetrysinger/),
which lets you create, play back and publish poems directly from
their iPhone.
Finished poems can be uploaded to the PoetrySphere using either the
3G cellular network or a wireless internet connection.
Eye-Fi Inc. (http://www.eye.fi) has announced a new, limited edition
card — the Eye-Fi Anniversary Edition — to celebrate the one-year
anniversary of its first wireless SD memory card for digital cameras.
Like the Eye-Fi Share, the Anniversary Edition wirelessly sends
photos from a digital camera to a computer and to one of more than 25
online photo sharing sites.
The card comes in Eye-Fi’s original slide-out package and is
available only at Costco.com for US$99 to club members, or on the
Eye-Fi web site for $129, while supplies last.
Open Door Networks (http://www.opendoor.com/) and Project A have
announced that their Holiday Envi and Carols Envi applications are
now shipping through the Apple App Store for the US$1.99 Holiday Envi
and Carols Envi are meant to bring smiles to iPhone and iPod touch
users’ faces during the winter holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Hanukkah and New Years.
Holiday Envi provides the iPhone or iPod with a “touch” of
lighthearted holiday potpourri. It includes holiday images, which
Holiday Envi pulls in and displays with just a couple quick
tap-tap-taps.
Native Instruments has introduced True Strike Tension, a new Kore
Soundpack with percussion sounds that are specifically designed to
add mystery and tension to cinematic film scores and similar musical
styles.
Created in collaboration with renowned sound design company,
ProjectSAM, the production-ready sound material in True Strike
Tension offers the sound shaping and browsing features in Kore 22 and
the free Kore Player.
Heckler Design (http://www.hecklerdesign.com/) has released the
OneLessDesk in black and red versions, in addition to the current
white and silver variations. They’re made by hand in Phoenix,
Arizona, Only 45 spots remain in their 2008 holiday production run.
The OneLessDesk (US$649) ports two independent desks for flexibility.
You could put your notebook on the lower deck and connect it to a big
display on the upper deck.