BREAKING NEWS!! It's an iPad!!!

Rumors have been circulating for some time now, but Steve Jobs has made it official... Apple has just announced the iPad. I'm always excited about anything that Steve Jobs brings to the table, but I think this product could possibly revolutionize the way we consume information much in the same manner that the ipod changed the way we consume music.

The iPad is reported to have a 9.7 inch screen, is .5 inch thin, and will weigh about 1.5 pounds. Memory capacity will be 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB. It will have a wi-fi only version, as well as a wi-fi plus 3G version. The wi-fi only version is scheduled to ship in bout 60 days.

The price will range from $499 to $829 depending on the memory capacity and the connectivity. AT&T service plans will begin at $14.99 for up to 250 GB per month, and go up to $29.99 per month for unlimited.

Jobs referenced an iBooks app that will link to the i Bookstore and thus allow the iPad to "stand on the shoulders" of Amazon's Kindle "... and go a little further." iBookstore will feature content from Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group.

iPad will also be able to support versions of iWork.

Here is the link to the story...

... and here's a video about the new product

Size Does Matter!!

Digital imagery has been evolving over the last decade with an increasing number of megapixels in cameras, and now these cameras shoot video. In HD!! My first digital camera was a little 3.1 megapixel number made by Canon. So as I have kept up with the times, and purchased cameras with higher and higher numbers of megapixels I have wondered how my storage media can keep up with the new demands of the high megapixel cameras.

Silicon power to the rescue!! They have created a 128 GB compact flash card. One Hundred and Twenty Eight Giga Bytes?!! In a compact flash card? Are you freaking kidding me?! When I first saw this I thought it was a misprint. I thought it was one of those old 128 mb little weenie compact flash cards. But on closer inspection I saw it to be true. Wow. That's a lot of pixels. A plethora of 1's and 0's aligned perfectly in the shape of my beautifully crafted images.

So now, that the people who make the media storage have upped the ante, how do the people that make the camera/video equipment respond...