Cool New Music Accessories for the iPad From This Year’s NAMM Show

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You may have already heard that the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show just kicked off today in Anaheim, CA. While the convention focuses on guitars, amps, drum kits, and studio recording equipment, for the past few years, the industry has shown a lot of intrest in iOS compatible devices. In addition to IK Multimedia’s latest line-up, this year, we found a few new items we think our musically inclined readers would like to know more about.

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PadGadget’s Flashback Friday – PAC-MAN for iPad

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Here at PadGadget, we love classic arcade games and retro-inspired apps. Maybe it’s because we are all a bunch of old fogies. Maybe it’s because we long for the simpler times, when games only had one view and four buttons. What ever the reason, we love all manner of pixilated play. To honor our childhood memories, we are spotlighting some of our favorite old school games and apps.

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Love Donkey Kong? Give Endless Runner Banana Kong a Try – iPad Game Review

bananakongThe endless runner genre has exploded thanks to ultra popular titles like Temple Run 2, and it seems like every week there’s at least one new endless running game to play.

That means the genre is a bit saturated, so successful new games in this category should be fun, innovative, and addictive, adding never before seen gameplay elements. While Banana Kong, a new endless runner from FDG, delivers in the fun category, it is sorely lacking in the innovative and addictive categories.

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Artist Creates Cover for The New Yorker with iPad

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Illustrator Jorge Colombo recently received the honor of supplying the cover image for The New Yorker. His “Newsstand” piece graces the January cover and was made entirely on the iPad.

Colombo is not new to digital finger painting. He has been making art on the iPhone since 2009. His cover illustration for the June 2009 issue was the first ever to be created on an iPhone for a major magazine.

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Listen Up — Cat Doorman’s Indie Folk Song “Little Red Wagon Goes” Digital

LRWapp Though her life story — ex-punk rocker moves to Portland to make art and music for kids — might sound like fodder for an episode of Portlandia, Julianna Bright (and her musical alter ego Cat Doorman) are for real, as evidenced by her release of Little Red Wagon for iPad. Part interactive app, part old-fashioned song book, Little Red Wagon brings its listeners something old and something new, and something completely adorable.

Not only is Little Red Wagon an interactive edu-book, it is also one piece of a larger media puzzle. Think of Little Red Wagon the lead single from an album, but instead of being a 45″, it’s an iPad app. The song is one of 14 that appear on The Cat Doorman Songbook, which is available with a 20-page booklet from the artist, and will be available through iTunes as a digital download by January 29, 2013.
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PadGadget Daily App Deal – 14 iPad Apps on Sale

PadGadget Daily App Deal – 14 iPad Apps on Sale

For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 14 great apps to add to your iPad collection.  We have 7 productivity / entertainment apps and 7 game apps in today’s bundle.

We used our PadGadget Apps Tracker to find these great deals and we’ll continue to look for the best app deals as they pop-up. Some of these apps are up to 80% off, several are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.

Check out all the sale apps after the break »

Top iPad Apps to Teach Kids World Geography

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All children, from pre-schoolers to high schoolers can use the iPad to learn more about the world around them. Whether you’ve got the kind of child who’d rather study an atlas than play with Hot Wheels or one who thinks Kathmandu is a the name of a trendy clothing designer, there are a wide range of apps to teach world geography, act as references, or turn learning about geography into a game.
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jOBS Biopic Schedule to Premier April 19, Apple Inc. Anniversary

jobs_ashton_kutcherThe Hollywood Reporter has dropped the news that the long-awaited biography film about the life of Apple’s beloved former CEO Steve Jobs will debut in theaters on Friday, April 19, which just so happens to be when Apple Computers was founded 37 years ago.

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Boston Globe Opts for iPad as Key Tool in Education Program

Boston GlobeEarlier this week, the Boston Globe Newspaper announced the launch of a new digital pilot program that will put iPads into public school classrooms around Boston and Stoneham. Thanks to the Newspaper in Education program, 75 iPads will be distributed to various schools in the area.

Donations from Boston Globe subscribers totaling $65,000 are being used to pay for the iPads, plus projectors that will be sent the schools. Fifty iPads will be delivered to Boston Public Schools and 25 will be sent to Stoneham High School. Each iPad comes with a digital subscription to the newspaper.

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FDA Clears iPad Controlled Robot for Hospital Use

iPad Hospital RobotEvery time I hear a story about a robot that can perform tasks that are normally designated for humans, I think of movies like “Smart House” or “This House Possessed” where technology becomes possessed and attacks people. I know, its morbid. A lot of horror movies have themes of future technology gone awry. It’s good to know that in the 21st century, we’ve figured out a way keep our robots from killing people.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of the first autonomous telemedicine robot for hospitals. RP-VITA comes equipped with an iPad for a face so that doctors can visit with patients no matter where they are.

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