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First Look: iGrapher 3D For iPad [Video]

iGrapher is a web based financial market visualizer that allows you to check in-depth charts and predictions of different stock and currency markets. Today we’ve found out that the developer of iGrapher is working on a 3D port of his software for the iPad.

Called “iGrapher 3D”, the app already looks smooth and fast, and we can’t wait to try a build on our iPads. In the meantime, check out the preview video after the break.

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A Foldable Solar Panel to Charge The iPad

You’re running out of battery while watching a movie at the park and you need to go home and finish it there. It’s a beautiful day though, why should you go home? You have the right to stay outside. On the other hand, it’s not that parks usually come with wall chargers, so I guess you’d need a different solution, something like…a portable solar panel. Yes, a solar panel to charge your iPad.

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Mac Sales Up 39% in April

Mac sales have gone under a 39% increase in April 2010, Gene Munster reports basing on the NPD data.

“April NPD data gives us the first sign of the degree to which the iPad cannibalizes iPod or Mac sales,” he writes. “From the early NPD data, it appears that the iPad has a minimal cannibalization impact on Mac sales, and could be slightly cannibalizing iPod sales. Given the [average selling price] (4x) and margin profile of the iPad, we see this as a net positive for Apple’s business.”

As All Things Digital reports though, the iPad won’t really cannibalize the sales of Macs:

“We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal. Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption, vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size).”

See the NPD data image below:

[via Fortune]