Apple’s Slate has finally come out in the form of the iPad. It really looks like a bit of a disappointment at first glance, as it looks like a scaled-up iPhone, and at second and third glance, it turns out that that is all it is. It’s a big iPhone. It’s got the GPS, the compass, the Wi-Fi, the iPod, the Safari and even the OS of the iPhone. It’s an iPhone with a 9.7 inch display. It does look cool though…

>> The iPad (I actually preferred iSlate)

It seems the folks over at .:oomlout:. have way too much time on their hands. As if we didn’t have enough twitter update gadgets, this modified typewriter (or TwypeWriter, as it is known) types out tweets as they are received. The gadget uses a typewriter and an arduino with ethernet shield to interface with the twitter API. Now, I’m not usually one for twitter, but this is cool. And… source code is avaliable! One for the weekend.

>>Twitter Monitoring Typewriter, oomlout via Hack a Day