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A Japanese news magazine show, Mezamashi TV, recently highlighted a new iPad app created by Double Crane and NeuroSky that is sure to delete geeks everywhere, well at least geeks in Japan for now.

The app uses brain waves sent via a headband worn by the user to control the game. The object? Get a virtual kiss from an attractive woman by focusing your attention on her. The catch is you can only see her from the back, but there are 5 candidates to choose from. The user concentrates on one of the beauties until she turns around. If they relax their brain at that point, she blows them a kiss.

Here’s the only video that has surfaced of the app in action(sorry, no iPad support yet):

Focus your attention on a woman and relax to get a kiss? Seems like that works in the real world too.

iPad News Via: japanprobe.com

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Editor’s note: This article was reposted from techrepublic.com.

I have said that the Apple iPad is only good at two things, but it’s really good at those two things and I’ve compiled a list of my 20 favorite apps for taking advantage of the iPad’s strengths.

The best way to view this is the gallery of screenshots. However, you can also view it as a text-based list below.

1. Flipboard

It’s amazing how quickly this has become my most used app on the iPad, since it was just released in July. It displays news stories based on them being shared via Twitter or Facebook and auto-formats them in a newspaper-like column format. You can scan the headlines and first couple paragraphs and then click through to the site to the open the full story right in the built-in web browser in the app. (Tip: search for TechRepublic or Jason Hiner and you can set us up as one of your sections in Flipboard.)

2. Kindle

The best way to read books on the iPad is the Amazon Kindle app, mostly because it has a large selection of titles available and it does the best job of syncing between multiple devices — iPad, iPhone, Android phone, PC, Mac, and more.

3. Documents to Go

The best way to collect, manage, and read business documents on the iPad is with Dataviz Documents to Go, which not only allows you to sync local files from your computer but also connect to cloud services such as Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync, and iDisk.

App Store Links:
Flipboard
Kindle
Documents to Go
ToDo
Twitter
Analytics HD
Evernote
Pulse
SkyGrid
ProPublica
NPR
The New York Times Editor’s Choice
USA Today
The Guardian Eyewitness
The Weather Channel
NASA
Netflix
Hulu Plus
Angry Birds
Scrabble

Read more at: techrepublic.com

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Editor’s note: This article was reposted from macobserver.com.

I have to use FileMaker Pro all the time so I was eager to see how the new FileMaker Go app for the iPad worked. It makes taking your Filemaker databases with you an easy experience providing users with a simple but robust way of accessing and modifying data. It’s a great tool for those that frequently use databases for work, but need to shed the bulk of a desktop or laptop machine in the field. I can easily imagine this app being used on an iPad by a warehouse inventory clerk on the warehouse floor to update inventory numbers or by a repair man or some other mobile business person out in the field to create invoices and email them to clients. Users can work from databases loaded onto the iPad itself or connect to remote files hosted by a FileMaker Server or shared on a FileMaker Pro client.

What It Is and Is Not

Before delving into the details, let me mention what FileMaker Go is not. It is not an app for creating or developing a FileMaker database like FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Advanced. It is designed for finished products, i.e., databases that are ready to be deployed. The app does not gives users the ability to manage the database tables, fields and relationships, modify layouts, create or modify scripts or export records. Creation and modification still requires a computer.

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ASCI, the American Customer Satisfaction Index conducted a customer satisfaction survey of the personal computer industry recently. Apple once again received the highest score in the survey for the seventh year in a row, and a new high score of 86. Several other companies, including Dell, Acer, and HP, couldn’t come close to matching Apple’s achievement with scoring an average 77 altogether.

According to a CNBC interview with ASCI, the iPad seems to be the device to thank for Apple’s leap from previous years’ scores in the survey.

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TUAW has found an iPad case they may interest kids and adults alike. The casing is a replica of everybody’s favorite etching slate, Etch A Sketch. Creators of Etch A Sketch are behind the design of this authentic iPad case which sells for $39 from Headcase.

Unfortunately, the traditional white knobs won’t let you draw a square face or the ever popular staircase on the iPad. But it is a nice throwback to the day when “laptop” entertainment didn’t cost an arm and a leg.

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