Coming to an iPad near you

Apple’s dreamy device launched yesterday officially in Romania, via eMag.ro with a price tag of  2399 RON (around 790 US dollars) for the 16Gb Wi-fi model. Their tiny stock of 50 iPads was sold out on the first day.

In its wait for the mighty iPad, the world put the little object of joy to various tests. Be sure to check out a cat and a dog playing with it. Then see how resistant this little piece of machinery really is via PC World or the famous Will It Blend series.

Below, a crème de la crème analysis made by the guys at Techland:

Articles of Note: March 2010

Just wanted to make sure March 2010 has not passed us by without noticing some of these:

• An amazing 26-gigapixel panoramic view of Paris #;

• ChatRoulette virals – #1 #2 and #3 featuring Ben Folds;

• Nokia tells us that Internet browsing on our mobiles is highly eco-friendly #;

• On March 21st the world celebrated 4 years since the first tweet #;

• Google.cn is history #;

• The Folding Plug wins Brit Insurance Design Awards (via the Guardian) #;

• Steve Jobs innovates a new channel for marketing delivery through personal e-mail replies #

• MoMA acquires the @ symbol. At least, symbolically #

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