So, best iPad apps time again: that bit of the week where yours truly casts a weary, TFT screen-addled eye over the finest offerings from the App Store. Apple’s touchy feelie tablet is only as good as the software you choose to dump on it, and we’ve sifted through the gubbins to bring you “deets” on the best – both free and, well, not free. Take a gander at our best iPad apps of the week right here, then get thee to iTunes to grab them.
November, 2010
The iPhone jailbreak could well be an endangered species. GSMA has announced a task force to explore the development of embedded SIM cards that can be remotely activated, a move that follows recent speculation that Apple is beavering away on similar tech. That could mean a new generation of cameras, MP3 players, sat-nav and ebook readers with SIM cards baked in but more importantly it could sound the death knell for the iPhone jailbreak…
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This Kinect hack may well be the best yet: the Personal Robots Group at MIT have taken a battery-powered Kinect and grafted it on to an iRobot Create (the hackable platform from the makers of Roomba and PackRobot). The Kinect helps create a 3D map to help the robot navigate. They’re also planning on giving the Kinect iRobot the ability to identify humans using Kinect smarts. See after the break for the Kinect iRobot in action and more good Kinect robot news…
iAd, Apple’s own advertising networking for flogging you stuff while you play with your iPhone or iOS 4 iPod touch, is coming to the UK and Europe next month. Bet you thought you were safe from the company’s PG rated pop ups over here? Nope! Still, it might not all be bad: read on to see which partners will be getting all up in your app first.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has cause a lot of consternation and confusion in the months since it was first announced. Is it a sequel or not? Would a follow up just a year after Assassin’s Creed 2 mean it was rushed, buggy and uninspired? We’re still not sure about the former, and frankly, we don’t think Ubisoft is either. But we can allay all fears about the latter: this, friends, is game of the year. Read on to find out why in our Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood review.
Fresh off a all-night stint covering the latest happenings in the world of tech, we bring you another edition of US tech news. In this morning’s US update we’ll get you up to speed with the latest for Kinect, Nokia E10 concepts, NAVTEQ, iHome Phone and the PS3.
