Need some serious protection for your HTC Ozone?  Otterbox has just released the Impact series for the Ozone from HTC.  The impact series is an impact resistant silicone shell for your device.  See the full press release after the jump:

The New “Ozone Layer”: OtterBox Impact Series for HTC

  There were some rumblings from various sites today that WebOS1.3.5 may be coming today.  The update is here and is being pushed to your device as we type this.  The update comes in at just 13MB, but has some significat fixes for those of you using WebOS.

• App limit fixed.
• App Catalog downloads continue even after leaving the app’s page.
• App purchases have been expanded to US territories (sorry Europe, Canada, etc).
• Switching between days in Calendar is now faster.
• Sprint Navigation can be launched from a Contact.
• Palm Profile app restores happen in the background, letting the user get to the phone faster.
• Future webOS updates can be downloaded over 2G wireless (1xRTT).
• Notifications now work in landscape mode (which has strangely lost the rounded corners).
• Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
• QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
• Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
• Minimized package of MR size through binary difference. Customers can now download over 2G connections if necessary.

This will probably be the last update before any new announcements by Palm at the upcoming CES Expo in Las Vegas shortly.  An interesting tidbit to note is that some who have scoured over the code have found pengles.ipk and opengles-omap3.ipk, which are what you need to get GPU acceleration running.  Happy updating!

  The all-in-one Internet, LAN, Wi-Fi, Alarm Clock embedded, open source device, Chumby One gets the "take-me-apart" treatment for us all to see.  iFixit has one again grasped the latest in technology just to give us a glimpse of what lies within the rounded square that Chumby One is.  Among the many other devices at iFixit, you can see the full teardown complete with specs and information on how to take it apart yourself at iFixit.

  Otterbox has been on a roll lately with their slew of case release.  This time they have chosen to protect your Blackberry Bold 9700 in two different ways.  First we have the Impact series which is your basic silicone protection.  The other option is the Commuter series which adds to the silicone with an external layer of plastic protection. 

OtterBox Keeps Your BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone Pristine

  The concept of this Apple patent is fairly simple.  The idea is that when you are looking at your monitor it will be more realistic to move your head around and look into the display, just like you would do out a window.  The whole idea is based on using your computer either hands free or with minimal input. You can essentially just look around as though your monitor was one big window.  

  The other idea that goes along with this display is using layers and the movement of your head to open, close or move around layers.  At this point the technology is only a patent for an idea as far as anyone knows, but with the recent interest in 3D picking up and motion controls such as Project Natal, you can bet Apple is cooking up something.

For example, the electronic device may define visual properties of different surfaces of the displayed object (e.g., reflection and refraction characteristics), and apply the visual properties to the portions of the detected image mapped on each surface. Using this approach, surfaces with low reflectivity (e.g., plastic surfaces) may not reflect the environment, but may reflect light, while surfaces with high reflectivity (e.g., polished metal or chrome) may reflect both the environment (e.g., the user’s face as detected by the camera) and light. To further enhance the user’s experience, the detected environment may be reflected differently along curved surfaces of a displayed object (e.g., as if the user were actually moving around the displayed object and seeing his reflection based on his position and the portion of the object reflecting the image).

To get a better idea of how this might work you have to check out the video below.  The only difference is that Apple’s patent does not specify wearing anything to track movement, such as glasses.

[via Macrumors]