Opena iPhone 4 case - Opens Bottles - Corona Time

The awesomeness you see above is an iPhone 4 case dubbed the Opena. It is the result of the work by Melbourne, Australia-based industrial designer Chris Peters and Rob Ward, a former Toolmaker.   The pitch?

 "The idea for The Opena came to us one afternoon when we were out having some beers. Some people have bottle openers on their keyrings, but many times you don’t always have your keys with you. But what is always with you? Your phone!"

The injection-moulded case is machined from solid blocks of ABS plastic while the bottle opener part is stamped out of food-grade stainless steel. The final production-spec Opena case will have a fine satin textured surface finish. They are raising $15,000 on Kickstarter to complete the project – it’s costly due to the tooling and 3D CAD technology involved. You can secure yourself one the first Openas for just fifteen bucks. We just hope opening bottles with this thing won’t scratch or break the iPhone 4′s glass back.

17 popular apps Steve Jobs just killed

Yesterday, just in case you were not online, was Apple’s annual WWDC event. The enhancements Apple made to iOS, Mac OS, and the entire Apple ecosystem were revolutionary. 


The following is a list of app categories, represented by one example, that will surely suffer from the new and integrated features in iOS 5.

1: Boxcar (Notification Apps)
2: Dropbox (Cloud syncing apps)
3: WhatsApp/Kik (Free messaging apps)
4: QuickPix (Camera- enhancing apps)
5: Instapaper (Read later apps)
6: Twitpic (not an app)
7: Remember the Milk (Reminder apps)
8: Photoshop Express (Photo Editing apps)
9: Echofon/Tweetdeck (Twitter apps)
10: Instagram (Photo Sharing apps)
11: Pulse (Reader apps):
12: iChromy (Browsers)
13: Wifi Photo (Wifi syncing apps)
14: Dictionary (Translation apps)
15: Gmail (Web app)
16: Find my iPhone
17: iTunes: “For the first time ever, you can now own an iOS device, without a computer. No more need for iTunes and all that wasted syncing time. You can set up the device wirelessly, back up your files wirelessly, and sync your device wirelessly. This is huge. I have two words for you, Apple. Good riddance. And here are some more words I have been waiting to say for a long time. Bye bye iTunes, hello wireless syncing. I don’t know you yet but I think I love you!”

iCloud will it be free or will it be $25/year

Nobody knows for sure what Apple has in store Monday when it introduces, iCloud, the company's newest cloud service offering. Will iCloud absorb MobileMe--Apple's calendar, e-mail, and contacts sync service -- or will it stand alone? Does Apple have plans for a new file sync feature that will seamlessly unify files on your iOS devices with your Mac or Windows PC?

Several pictures taken outside of Moscone West, where WWDC will be held, capture banners bearing the word "iCloud" together with an icon and a huge banner depicts Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as being the three components adding up for WWDC 2011. Additional banners hung from the ceiling are still under wraps. In previous years, Apple has kept some of these banners under wraps until the Keynote presentation."