iPad

An iPad would normally be considered a pretty substantial gift this holiday season. Thanks to a fortunate error by Best Buy, a couple of shoppers can now use the tablet computer for stocking stuffers.

Microsoft has just announced its new line of ‘Surface’ personal tablets, which are going to enter the market this autumn, and go head-to-head with Apple’s iPad, among other devices. Here are a few things you might like to know about this new entry into the tablet-computing world, just in case you’re thinking about switching brands.

A little girl wants to explore an iPad while her baby brother would rather she pay attention to him. Despite the tyke's best efforts at distracting her, technology wins out in the end.

Two-year-old Ewan has already mastered the iPad 2 and now he's passing the knowledge on to to his 8-month-old sister Eva.

They say there is nothing more romantic than a homemade gift. That goes double if you have the ability to make your partner an iPad from scratch. Wei Xinlong didn't have enough money to buy his girlfriend, Sun Shasha, an iPad 2.  So instead the student at China's Northeast Normal University bought $125 of hardware and software online and used it to assemble a fully-functional replica of the sought

A man in Batley, England who thought he was buying an iPad ended up with a dirty sack of potatoes instead. If we had a nickel for every time we've fallen for that old trick...

In what may be the trippiest Halloween costume ever, Mark Rober, a mechanical engineer at NASA, connected two iPads using FaceTime, with each one displaying the image from the front-view camera on the other, and attached them to the front and back of his torso. The end result makes it appear as though you're looking right through a hole in his midsection.

This little kitty is completely perplexed by the fish swimming across an iPad screen. Even after multiple swats at the screen, it never fully understands the tablet computer.

Designer Stuart Hughes, who specializes in bringing bling to everything from beds to yachts to liquor bottles, is now offering a gold- and diamond-encrusted iPad 2 for the princely sum of $8.1 million called the Gold History Edition.

Given how popular cats are on the internet, it's no surprise that Friskies -- makers of delicious cat food (or so our cats tell us) for over 50 years -- recently rolled out a line of tablet-based apps just for cats. Featuring movements, shapes and colors tailored to appeal to kitty's sensibilities, your feline friend can now download titles like 'Cat Fishing' 'Tasty Treasures Hunt' and 'Party Mix-

The technologically-savvy Pope Benedict XVI has already encouraged priests to blog and helmed the launch of the Vatican’s YouTube channel and Pope2You mobile and Facebook apps. So it's really no surprise that as part of his newly-launched news portal, the pontiff sent his first tweet recently -- from the papal iPad. You can follow the Vatican on Twitter at @news_va_en.