We might very soon have iPods with really big displays. While Tec Crunch’s sources claim to have actually handled one of the iPod prototypes with big screens, and Apple is talking with manufacturers in Asia about mass production of the device, according to the report. Certainly at that size, the device would be more of a tablet than an iPod, and tablet rumors have been floating around Apple for years. There was a fury of speculation in August after a number of Mac sites pointed to a U.S. patent application granted for what would appeared to be the mythical Mac tablet. Apple Insider published a description of the device discussed in the application, which appears to bring a lot of the iPhones multitouch functionality to a slate-like tablet computer.

Earlier this year, CEO Steve Jobs implied Apple was watching small-device categories like tablets and Notebooks to see if they actually take off as a mega-trend. But Jobs has also quickly shot down talk of an Apple-produced competitor to Amazon's Kindle, which has been interpreted as a sign Apple was doing just that.

Now, there are those of you who love Sushi. Would you like it if tell you that there’s a new iPhone App titled ‘The Sushi Encyclopedia’, which will be put out by the Japanese publishing house Shogakukan. The initial offering will give us 82 descriptions of different types of sushi, complete with pictures. 82 doesn’t seem like a whole lot to me, especially for an encyclopedia .The sad bit is that the first edition will be available in Japanese only. The English version should be soon to follow. I’d also look for frequent updates to the app to provide more types of sushi, pictures, even locations of sushi restaurants worldwide… That could be helpful.

The Sushi Encyclopedia would sell for around $5 USD. Stay tuned for this one, it’s coming soon. There are already 2 apps in the App Store dealing with Sushi. The first is Sushi City. It’s a game where you have to serve up sushi as fast as you can to waiting customers. You can pick it up for $0.99 in the App Store.

There has been a new musical shooter game introduced for Apple’s iPod and iPhone. This musical game is Radio Flare released by Studio Radiolaris, a newly founded games studio with an emphasis on music. It is equipped with a sonification beam that desynchronizes space debris and an entire alien invasion force.

The game has an electronic track from DJ Glow of Trust Records, a Berlin based electronic musician and it takes you on a journey into sound speeding your ship pulsing through deep space. In the game, the ship steers with one finger while targeting enemies with another. The hit enemies are blasted as radio flares which are then collected and advanced to the next stage to intensify the soundtrack. The game has five stages with forming over 100 enemies and finally having a boss battle. Radio Flare is available for $2.99 and is available from the Apple App Store.

Publisher Random House Inc. is coming on the iPhone and iPod with its many dozen books. Among them are Christopher Paolini’s “Brisingr”, Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy and Peter Matthiessen’s award-winning “Shadow Country.” RandomHouses’s vice president for digital books, Matt Shatz stated that they were pleased to be making initial list of outstanding books by some of their top selling authors available to a groundbreaking group of readers.

There were also thousands of books added to the digital catalogue as announced by Random House. There has been more than three time growth in their e-sales in 2008. There are several other publishers like Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins who have been making e-books available on iPhones

Now you can add light to an image on your iPod and iPhone as Gamproducts Inc has introduced a realistic lighting and shadow using digital versions of the gobo library. Gobos, which are patterns used in theatre, film, photography, and television by lighting designers. They are used to create scenery and atmosphere to enhance the visual impact of their lighting.

 There are 45 Gobos that have been collected from Gamproducts and have been included with light. They are further arranged in different categories mainly, Blinds, Breakups, Foliage, Trees and Windows. This light spice up the images like cameramen and photographers do. Light for the iPhone and iPod can be purchased at $1.99 from the iTunes App Store.

City search, an online local guide has launched new application for iPhone and iPod. With this new application users can easily edit contents, browse nearby listings, write reviews and sort by preference through their mobile devices. It gives location based accurate and specific information that helps users to identify local restaurants, bars, nearby shops etc.

It also provides City search maps through which users can search any business listing or category to find a particular destination. Further, through City search application users can submit their reviews faster and can also have featured write-ups on the happening places in the cities. Results could be sorted by keywords like distance, cost and city search ratings and users can bookmark their favorite lists.

 Lots of people love their Apple iPod Video players, and would like to go ahead with them, even if they have to repair them.
So besides getting a new battery installed, customers can have their broken video iPod LCD replaced with a brand new one that is brighter than the original one, replace a failing headphone jack, get a pristine new white or black faceplate, or a shiny new metal back plate clear of any markings or blemishes. And if your iPod Video is not working properly and you are not sure what the problem is, just have it evaluated for $9 bucks to see if the repairs are more extensive, like needing a new hard drive or logic board.  Some Video iPod repairs (or 5th Gen iPod repairs) are simple enough for the average Joe to complete on his own, like a battery replacement. Other repairs, like changing out a new iPod video screen, are perhaps best left to the professionals at Milliamp LTD. Have an iPhone or iPod Nano? Well, the website ipodjuice.com can fix those Apple devices as well.

So Cube is this single player and multiplayer open source first person shooter game optimized for iPhone and iPod touch. It features good graphics, interesting environment, adrenaline pumped theme music, and explosive sound effects. Unfortunately, game controls are too sensitive. This open source game is built on a completely new and alternative landscape-style engine Cube engine.
No instructions are provided about the object of this game and no enemies appear in the first level. Instead, players run around and collect first aid kits and ammunition, including rocket launches. There is no way to tell what to do next except running around and shooting into walls.

Recently Apple renovated its iPod line introducing a new version of iPod Nano with aluminum design in a curved shape having an in built accelerometer.

The new iPod Nano is the thinnest iPod ever introduced and has an accelerometer which senses which direction a user is holding the device. It incorporates Genius, the automatic playlist generating feature. It has a battery life of up to 24 hours of music playback and four hours of video playback and it comes in nine different colors. The latest version of iPod Touch is lighter in weight and has integrated volume control buttons with in-built speakers. Like the Nano, it also has the Genius feature. It offers 36 hours of music playback and 6 hours of video playback. These two models have undergone substantive changes for the holiday sale to go up.

It’s time for UK now to go frenzy with a gizmo that converts an iPod into a breath Analyser. This gadget was a craze in the American market two years ago. The iBreath can be plugged into the music system and has a tube which when blown through reveals if the user is over the legal drinking limit. The gadget also acts as a radio transmitter to play music from the iPod in the car.

However, as reported y Sun, health experts have cautioned that the device might show wrong results. According to Sun GP, Dr. Carol Cooper, this device will let us know about how much alcohol is there in our breath and not how much we are impaired by it. This might even vary from person to person.