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Tabletmania continues! This week saw a slew of new rumors on Apple’s mystery device and some healthy speculation on the next iPhone, too. Also making noise: Pre Plus, HTML5, SSDs, Kindle apps and the punch heard ’round the Apple Store.<\/p>\n

Apple’s January 27th event was confirmed<\/a> with a splatter of paint.<\/p>\n

And oh were there rumors. One report<\/a> said it was an iPhone flattened with a rolling pin. The WSJ said that we’d share<\/a> our Tablets with our families (yeah right). One even suggested it could cure lupus<\/a> (not really).<\/p>\n

We started our Apple Tablet Sweepstakes<\/a>. There’s still time to enter, so guess the mystery device’s specs and features and we’ll buy you one.<\/p>\n

Jesus reflected on the Apple Tablet interface and sorted out<\/a> what makes sense and what just plain doesn’t.<\/p>\n

John rounded up some of the dumbest tablet rumors<\/a> of all time.<\/p>\n

Adam rounded up all the iPhone 4 rumors<\/a> he could find, the dumb along with the not so dumb.<\/p>\n

Brian added up all those subscriptions<\/a> you’re paying for and it’s a serious chunk of change.<\/p>\n

Mark is still fighting the good fight<\/a> on the yellow iMac front.<\/p>\n

Joel revealed the secret<\/a> of Apple’s magic: they show off products that you can actually buy<\/i>.<\/p>\n

We reviewed<\/a> the Palm Pre Plus. Turns out it’s not “plus” a whole lot.<\/p>\n

Last week we brought you customers’ Genius Bar horror stories. This week we came back with tales from the other side of the bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We teamed up with our buddies at Gawker TV and put together this extensive montage<\/a> of tablets and futuristic interfaces in film and TV.<\/p>\n

We explained<\/a> solid-state drives and why you should want one.<\/p>\n

You guys took to Photoshop and plugged the Late Night battle into your favorite sci-fi movies. Conan as Leia?<\/a> Hot.<\/p>\n

If you thought Sexting was embarrassing, wait until you read Brian Barrett’s hard-hitting report<\/a> on the seedy subcultures of Becksting, Hexting, and more.<\/p>\n

Rockers OK Go wrote in<\/a> and explained that whole business about non-embeddable YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

Speaking of rockers, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne was chilling in a bathtub<\/a> on his front lawn when the Google Street View van rolled by.<\/p>\n

Jason got to live out some lifelong fantasies with the Star Trek Online Open Beta<\/a>. The verdict: pew pew and pppptththhhbbffffooooo.<\/p>\n

With YouTube and Vimeo jumping in bed<\/a> with HTML5, we wonder if the end of Flash video is drawing near.<\/p>\n

A guy did a text input speed test<\/a> with a laptop, an iPhone, a Palm, a Newton, a pen and pad, and a Magnadoodle. Okay, okay, all except for one of those.<\/p>\n

We read the incredible story of a man whose iPhone saved his life<\/a> when he was trapped under the rubble in Haiti.<\/p>\n

Amazon opened up the Kindle<\/a> for development! That exclamation point is all the enthusiasm I can muster.<\/p>\n

We checked out an electromagnetic cannon<\/a> that can stop cars dead in their tracks. Unless your car was made before the era of computerized engines (before the drastic change \/ in production when cars were metal instead of plastic).<\/p>\n

Sega Genesis is coming to the iPhone, official-style<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark shared a pretty good tip<\/a> for snagging a free phone charger: hit up a hotel’s lost and found.<\/p>\n

Steve Ballmer signed<\/a> a MacBook Pro. Somewhere in the boreal forest, an endangered snow leopard dropped dead.<\/p>\n

We found an iPhone app that catches cheating spouses<\/a>, but if you read the news these days it seems like they’re doing pretty OK on their own.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t spot this super-sophisticated ATM card skimmer<\/a>. Could you?<\/p>\n

US Airways misinterpreted “red ring of death” and destroyed<\/a> a kid’s XBox 360.<\/p>\n

A Photoshop user traced his mouse movement<\/a> during a three-hour session. The result probably looks neater than whatever he was working on.<\/p>\n

That wild picture of the wolf that won that National Geographic photo contest? It’s deadly acoustic weapon<\/a>, as not to upset it.<\/p>\n

There are tree houses. And then there are tree houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twelve South released the BookBook<\/a>, a MacBook casecase that lookslooks really goodgood.<\/p>\n

A crazy, crazy dude with some serious, serious cajones is going to attempt to break the sound barrier by free-falling<\/a> from 120,000 feet.<\/p>\n

MacGruber<\/a> is coming to the big screen.<\/p>\n

We looked at some instances in which sci-fi movies became blowing up the flight you’re on<\/a>. Just don’t.<\/p>\n

Microsoft finally got around to fixing<\/a> a seventeen year old bug.<\/p>\n

Oh, and those naked airport scanners everyone’s always up in arms about? They might not be so good at actually detecting bombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n



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