Year: 2010

Bodelin ships wireless ProScope for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

Bodelin ships wireless ProScope for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

Posted by | Jun 9, 2010 | , |

Bodelin Technologies (http://www.bodelin.com/proscopehr/), manufacturers of the ProScope HR and ProScope HR2 high-res handheld digital microscopes, have released a wireless model for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

ProScope Mobile is powered by three AA batteries and works on Wi-Fi. In fact, it creates its own Wi-Fi network and can be used simultaneously with up to 253 devices of any combination of iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone. ProScope Mobile utilizes an app called AirMicro (iPhone/iPod touch) and AirMicroPad (for the iPad) and is a free download from the Apple App Store.

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The obituary for the Mac

Posted by | Jun 9, 2010 | , |

“Newsweek” ran an obituary for the Mac yesterday (see http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonic-shifts/2010/06/08/does-apple-s-iphone-4-signal-the-death-of-the-macintosh.html) in which it said that the “future of Apple is no longer centered around the Macintosh.”

“You Mac guys just got kicked to the curb, relegated to the steaming dung heap of the past,” “Newsweek” wrote. “The future, for Apple, is all about iPhones and iPads, and, more important, the operating system software that powers them — the sexy new iOS 4, which these days seems to be getting most of Steve’s attention.”

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