The freshly announced iPad has been confirmed today by Steve Jobs in San Francisco and from what it looks like the full specifications list has a a 9.7″ IPS display, which, according to Jobs, is a version of the TFT LCD display that supports wide viewing angles, and it has full capacitive multitouch features.

For connectivity, there’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+, and you’ll also get an accelerometer, compass, speaker and microphone and the 30-pin connector that’s standard for Apple’s devices. The battery is

The Wind has got on to its mind blowing act, and the first region it has targeted is the US. Before you get any ideas or run into conclusions, we are talking of the MSI Wind U135, which has just begun shipping in the United States. Though it has been a fairly short period of wait since December, the device has finally arrived.

To arrive in hues of black, blue, red and white, the MSI Wind U135 comes with a new attractive keypad. The company has added new updates to the trackpad also, and the Wind U135 sports a smudge-resistant cabinet

Endless Ideas has introduced its first WiFi-enabled e-Book reader called the BeBook Neo. The device is powered by a Freescale processor and offers a 6-inch E-ink display with a Wacom touchscreen. Some other features include 512MB of internal memory, a microSD card slot that will give you up to 16GB, USB port, 3.5mm headset jack and WiFi so you can access Google and Wikipedia.

And also a range of third-party e-Book stores is supported. It plays nice with most popular file formats. The BeBook Neo will cost you £279.99 or roughly $453. It’s available

The BearExtender n3 has a few advantages over other WiFi extenders. It’s cheap, it works great, and most important of all, it’s legal. This external WiFi adapter for Macs costs just $45 and was developed by Rolan Saekow, a Berkeley grad who wanted access to the campus “Airbears” network from wherever he happened to be.

Looks like it works great too. TUAW’s testing yielded stronger signals and higher throughput when they used the BearExtender over internal WiFi. The downside, if you consider it a downside, is that the

Lego makes all things possible. So it isn’t surprising that someone named Luke has ripped open the WRT54GL and transplanted it into a Lego case. The best part is that it looks great. I wouldn’t mind this sitting in my living room.

Want to try your hand at this Lego creation? Go for it. Full instructions are available. You can likely get it done during a quiet weekend.

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[CES 2010] Samsung's latest range of S Series camcorders offer something new in the form of integrated Wi-Fi connectivity, making it the world's first to have that with DLNA support as well. The three models to grace this new S Series are the HMX-S10, HMX-S15 and HMX-S16, placing them at the top of the pile where full HD camcorders from Samsung are concerned. All three of them will boast the proprietary new Victoria Engine processor as well as a cutting-edge 1/2.3” BSI (Back Side Illumination) CMOS

Folks who are in need of long range Wi-Fi in the course of their work might want to look forward to the Point-to-Point Wi-Fi antenna which is capable of shooting out Wi-Fi EM in an arc, measuring 16° horizontally and 21° vertically. According to the product manufacturer, this device will more or less work up to nearly 3 miles away as long as you have a clear line of sight - now we know that that is rarely the case with all the urban jungles going on around us these days, and if you decide to use this,

Cisco is set to roll out an all new Wi-Fi-enabled Flip digital camcorder sometime in the first half of next year onwards, taking advantage of Cisco's own networking technology ever since it brought Pure Digital under its wings via a multi-million dollar deal earlier this year. There is very little word on specifications concerning this camcorder, but we do know that it will come with a large display that can slide open to reveal both record and menu buttons underneath. You won't get touchscreen functionality

Looks like a major Wiltshire town is buzzing with excitement as they are about to become the first in the UK to be able to enjoy free public wireless internet access. Swindon Borough Council plans for all 186,000 citizens to soon be swaddled under a blanket “Wi-Fi mesh” by April 2010.

With no connection charge while line rentals are free. The service will be called Signal, but here’s the catch. You will have limited access unless you pay for 20Mb upgrades. The fee is said to be “significantly less” than current broadband