Ubooly Turns Your iPhone Into A Toy That Teaches

Sure the iPhone lets you play casual games and do all kinds of other things, but there are also mobile apps focused on education and early development that are important as well. Though they could be better. Now a team has developed a simple way to merge toys with iOS apps for the education of our geeklings.

Ubooly was created by Carly Gloge and her husband Isaac. It’s basically a plush toy for your iPhone that interacts with your child. This toy can cover a wide range of learning situations. The plush toy and app cost $50 and updated learning games will be released for $1-$3 daily. Sounds pretty good for lots of learning on the cheap. This kickstarter project is over the halfway point for funding. If you like where this is going, give them a donation and help kids learn with a cute iToy.

Ubooly in action:

iPhone Latch & Lanyard, Supports Your iPhone While Capturing Movies And Photos

A new iPhone Latch & Lanyard concept designed to be used with the Gymbl Case is currently over on the Kickstarter website looking to make the jump from concept to production, and has been designed to help you take iPhone photographs with ease. We have featured a number of different solutions here on Geeky Gadgets that have been designed to aid stability and help you hold and control your iPhone movement when taking photographs. But none have been as small or as convenient as the iPhone Latch & Lanyard concept. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action. Gordon Fowler explains a little more about his concept.

“Held taut against your neck, the iPhone is steady when taking photos and when capturing video you can hold it steady or swing it through a smooth and graceful arc. You will be surprised by how much of a difference it makes. It’s also amazing how natural and secure it feels to do this with one thumb steadying the camera while the other is over the shutter and adjusting the settings. It works both left- and right-handed and in portrait as well as landscape mode.”

The iPhone Latch & Lanyard concept is now looking to raise $20,000 to help get the concept into production, so if you think its something you would use make a pledge for $15 to make sure you have one once it goes into production at the special Kickstarter introductory offer price.

For more information:
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/iphone-latch-lanyard-supports-your-iphone-while-capturing-movies-and-photos-video-14-03-2012/

Today only: iPads and iPods 10% cheaper on NewEgg

If you’ve missed all those Holiday sales don’t worry - NewEgg has got you covered with a rare 10% off deal on all iPads and iPods. There’s no catch, but you’d need to hurry up - the deal will only last one day, and that’s today. You’d need to enter the following code: EMCNHNA28 The code is valid until 11:59pm PST today, on February 9th, but if you order sooner you’d do better as there’s a fund limitation. Once it runs out, the promotion could end even earlier.

Now, that’s not everything NewEgg sells - it’s deal covers cameras, monitors, other Verizon smartphones and plenty of gadgets, but our guess is that the Apple products will be in biggest demand. Is 10% enough to lure you into purchase? Also, don’t forget that a little patience might go a long way - Apple is expected to unveil the next-generation iPad with improved battery and specs in a mere couple of weeks, so you might want to spare the piggy bank now.

Apple’s iPhone 4S Headed To China In January?

Apple announced on Wednesday that iPhone 4S, its latest smartphone product, will be available in China and 21 other countries as of Jan. 13.

"Customers response to our products in China has been off the charts," Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive officer, said in a statement. He noted that with the launch in China next week, iPhone 4S will be available in over 90 countries and regions, making it Apple's fastest iPhone rollout ever. The iPhone 4S was launched in October last year.

Apple is scheduled to report its 2012 first fiscal quarter earnings on Jan. 24. As one of Apple's biggest revenue sources, the iPhone 4S sales are seen key to the results. In the last quarter, Apple missed projections from the Wall Street as customers had been awaiting the launch of iPhone 4S. Last October, Apple announced that it had sold more than four million units of iPhone 4S, just three days after the launch. Analysts have been giving rosy estimates on iPhone 4S sales for the first quarter after it hit the stores, saying that the company could have sold more than 30 million iPhones during the period.

The iPhone 4S, which looks the same as the iPhone 4, has major hardware upgrade inside, including a faster chip, a higher- resolution camera and Siri intelligent voice control.

Knock-off iPhone 4 a Hit in China:

iPad and iPhone Games On Sale in App Store This Week

Good news for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch users, a number of app developers have cut down the price of their precious apps in iTunes App Store in celebration of the Veterans Day last Friday. Folks over at TUAW have listed some discounted (up to 80 percent), on sale, or available for free. The list of free, discounted, and on sale apps is posted below:

Gameloft has also cut down the prices of their games. You can checkout this link for more details.
EA games have also slashed the price of their games and offering up to 80% discount on their iPad and iPhone apps and games, which includes the ubër popular games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, and and Dead Space. Here’s the complete list of the iPad and iPhone games:

List of Discounted iPad Apps of the Week:
Dead Space (iPad) – 50 percent off
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – 80 percent off
Command & Conquer Red Alert – 60 percent off
Mirror’s Edge – 50 percent off
NBA JAM – 60 percent off
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit – 80 percent off
Reckless Racing – 60 percent off
Rock Band Reloaded – 50 percent off
Shift 2 Unleashed – 60 percent off
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – 60 percent off

List of Discounted iPhone Apps of the Week:
Dead Space – 57 percent off
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – 67 percent off
Fight Night Champion – 60 percent off
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit – 60 percent off
Shift 2 Unleashed – 67 percent off
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON – 67 percent off

So don’t waste any time and download the ones you want as soon as possible. If your friends and family members have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch then don’t forget to let them know about the sale as well.

LockMessages Protects Your iPhone Text Messages

What We all want most is to kept our privacy and ensure that, our text messages are kept private. We’ve all been there, you get a message on your iDevice and someone sees it and starts questioning you about it. Well now you can safeguard your text messages on iPhone from prying eyes using LockMessages which is the latest Cydia Tweak.

LockMessages is a great new app and the best feature of this new tweak is that it allows you to customize the alerts you receive on your lockscreen or through the Notification Center. You can change the sender’s name to something neutral and you can also change the title to a generic sequence of characters which safeguards all your sensitive details.

In addition to the above, you can also set a passcode to your Messages.app which gives you even more privacy and protection. If you want to safeguard your messages you can get LockMessages from the BigBoss repository for just 99 cents. If you do purchase this app the settings are configured in the Settings.app because there is no Springboard icon with this. Also it is worth noting that this app is for iOS 5 only so if you want the extended privacy that it offers you will have to have the latest operating system on your idevice.

In order to use LockMessages you will need a jailbroken iOS 5 device and there are numerous ways to do this such as using Redsn0w and you can find all the details including step by step tutorials right here on our blog. If you want to protect your text messages from prying eyes and you have an iOS 5 device then this great little Cydia Tweak could be just the thing you have been looking for.

How to lock your Apps iPhone/ipod touch (Lock your Text messages):

Siri On The iPhone 4 Is Now Legally Possible

According to a series of tweets signed Musclenerd over the past 10 hours, the latest iOS 5.0.1 IPSW features decrypted ramdisks. Developers looking to port the iPhone 4S-exclusive Siri to older-generation devices will now be able to do so, legally, as the revised IPSW makes it possible to avoid infringing on Apple’s copyright while extracting the necessary files.

We have already seen Siri running on the iPhone 4, and now it seems that we may get a port of Siri on the iPhone 4 from the developer community is it is now legally possible to port Siri to the iPhone 4. Apple has now released the iOS 5.0.1 update for iOS devices, and according to iPhone developer MuscleNerd, the latest version of Apple’s iOS now makes it possible to port Siri to the iPhone 4 without any sort of piracy. So we can expect to see Siri landing on the iPhone 4, unoficially over the next few weeks, unless Apple decides to make it illegal again in the next release of iOS.

More information's:
http://www.cultofmac.com/135599/apple-makes-siri-iphone-4-port-legally-possible-with-todays-ios-5-0-1-update/

Siri fully hacked onto iPhone 4, Server working: