And Then There Was A Solid Gold iPad

On the 107th day, Stuart Hughes revealed the solid gold iPad. With 53 diamonds set in the Apple logo, and the casing crafted from 22ct gold, 10 lucky people can snap one up—for $189,000. [Stuart Hughes]

Magic Mouse syncs with jailbroken iPad, enabling cursory cursor control

The pun is so obvious it practically insults your intelligence, but we just can’t help ourselves — the iPad has just gotten a little more magical. Using the BTstack application that brought Bluetooth mouse support to iPhone, enterprising individuals discovered the same technique works on a jailbroken iPad as well, and hooked up [...]

iPad international launch is go on May 28

We knew it was coming end of May, now we have a date: May 28th and up for pre-order on May 10th. That’s when the iPad will hit Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. It lands in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore [...]

iPad Spirit jailbreak + Camera Connection Kit = external HDD support

Looks like that iPad Camera Connection Kit isn’t as overpriced as we thought; not only does it have USB headset and keyboard support, but one enterprising user has hooked up an external hard drive using the dongle as well. Max Shay has an exhaustive walkthrough at his personal website, but the gist of the [...]

This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad

With every new Apple gadget, there’s always an imbecile who wants to destroy it on video to get his Warhol moment. This one put an iPad 3G 64GB in a microwave but, instead of a Warhol, he got a Pollock.

Yes, it’s art. Art enclosed in transparent resin. Titled the EyePad, you [...]

iPad 3G works on T-Mobile, can be hacked to send text messages

Here’s a pair of interesting iPad 3G hacks for your lazy Sunday — first, Apple’s tablet is apparently unlocked out of the factory, so trimming a T-Mobile SIM to micro SIM size will get you up and running on EDGE with no further hassle. Not terribly useful in the States, but good news for [...]

iFixit gets iPad 3G on day one, immediately destroys it

Unsurprisingly, the chaps over at iFixit have already torn their brand new 3G iPad to shreds. There isn’t anything insanely shocking in there (no visible “magic,” though there is some fragmentary evidence of a “revolution”), but it’s still a pretty interesting sight to behold. So, what’s going on in there? [...]