Angry Birds is now the number two paid app in the App store, right now Tiny Wings holds the number one spot. This great little game has so far great reviews and you can get it for $0.99.

[via 9To5Mac]

The folks over at BoingBoing interviewed a man about his underwater bubble room. He and his family thought it would be fun to build a “fort” at the bottom of an undisclosed Nevada lake.

This video got me thinking though. While it’s super cool to have you’re very own “bubble room” at the bottom of a lake, there must be a point when the novelty of being at the bottom of lake in a bubble room wears off. At that point, what do you do? I imagine a “bubble room” would be a peaceful place to read a book, but there would definitely be some difficulty associated with bringing that book along. Then I thought that I would just want my iPhone, so I could read, play Angry Birds or watch movies all from safety and security of my underwater lair.

I proceeded to fire up the Google machine and discovered many a gadget to help me accomplish my task of watching Netflix at the bottom of a lake. The most compelling solution (not the top search result, but very close to the top) was the Dry Case. I was a little put off by it’s first selling point, “Stays dry even under water”. I thought we’d clarified that point with the name, but fortunately the marketing material redeemed itself; waterproof to 100 feet, vacuum seal, stereo/microphone jack and buoyant armband! Now we’re talking. I was also reassured by the fact that this accessory as been “Garanteed tested underwater overnight”.

As a scrupulous consumer I could not base my purchasing decision solely on the word of the company. I headed directly to Amazon to see what a bunch people I don’t know had to say. As it turns out, the Dry Case has great reviews. Eight out of Nine reviewers gave it 4 stars or better. The only recurring complaint was the armband being to big or too small.

Now all I need to do is get my very own “bubble room”. I wonder when they’ll be available on Amazon.

Image courtesy of Dry Case

I may be late to the Angry Birds party, but I’m here now and I don’t think I can leave. For those of you who don’t know, Angry Birds is a highly addictive iPhone and iPad app. The premise is straightforward; evil green pigs stole the birds’ eggs, which of course made them very angry and they must destroy everything in their path for vengeance. Perfect.

As you can see, these birds mean business. I had a cross country flight this week with no wifi so I thought it would be a good opportunity to check this game out. I proceeded to dump 4 straight hours into it. While the concept may seem silly (by “silly” I mean awesome), there’s just something about using a slingshot to fling angry birds at green pigs to cause as much damage as possible, very rewarding.

I was initially disheartened when I finished the first 63 levels in the “Poached Eggs” segment because I thought I had already completed the game, but really had only completed the first section. And even if you do complete each level in the game, you’ll want to keep coming back for more to get higher scores and a  three star ranking on each level.

The full version of Angry Birds is available in the App Store for $0.99 on iPhone/iPod Touch and $4.99 on iPad. And you can check out the lite version for free as well. You can check out some game play footage below.

Be warned, Angry Birds is very addictive.