Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

4Food Takes Orders By iPad
August 15th, 2011

As part of Mashable’s recent article on 6 Creative iPad Uses for Small Retailers, they profiled a small businesses in New York City, 4food.

“The restaurant has six iPads available for customers to order from and browse the web. During peak hours, 4food “hawkers” roam the restaurant with iPads to take orders from customers so they don’t have to wait in line.”

Clearly not the first company to embrace the portable efficiency of the iPad, this is yet another example of how tablets are slowly reinventing the way we go about our day!

3D City Search on iPad
August 2nd, 2011

Check out this impressively detailed 3D mapping capability by recently acquired Swedish company, C3. The effects — which combine previously classified “missile targeting technology,” to achieve a 3D experience — were demoed earlier this year on iPad.

iPad Headed to the Friendly Skies
July 5th, 2011

The iPad is now slated to join the many gears, instruments and meters within an airline cockpit. As reported by the New York Times, pilots can now save their lower-backs, forgoing the 40 plus pounds of manuals, charts and logbooks, for a 1 1/2 pound tablet.

The Federal Aviation Administration has authorized various commercial airlines to carry the device as part of a paperless “flight bag,” noting that they do not impair airline electronics and thus, would not need to be stowed during takeoff.


Image via New York Times

GarageBand on the iPad
June 1st, 2011

Look at what GarageBand on an iPad can do in the hands of a talented musician.

Photoshop CS5 Companion Apps For The iPad Released
May 11th, 2011

Back in April Adobe showed off through a demonstration what could be done with their new Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit. Now, Adobe announced the release of three Photoshop CS5 companion apps for tablet devices.
The three apps are Adobe Eazel ($4.99), Adobe Nav ($1.99), and Adobe Color Lava ($2.99).

[via MacRumors]