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Aug 10, 2012 6:00 PM   It's time for another edition of best iPad apps. This week we've got a whole slew of great stuff coming your way. From a Full Metal Jacket diary to a Cartoon Network streaming app, you'll like what you see. Full Metal Jacket Diary : Matthew Modine, a.k.a. Pvt. Joker, kept a diary at the request of director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Full Metal Jacket in 1985. And we maybe would never have known about it had it not been slapped on this app. Here you'll see text from Modine's journal, thousands of photos, and details about the making of the Vietnam War movie. $14.99 Clap Box : Here's another synth app for you to play with. This one is an iPad version of the Simmons Clap Trap, a synth you might recognize in a lot of 80s-era electronic music. Free Cover Orange HD : If you don't guard your oranges from acid rain they are going to die! Ahhhh! In this game, you play the protector of your sweet fruits in 360 different levels. Fre...

If you travel with technology, you need a bag that can take a beating. You don't want your iPad to get busted in crowded gym locker or on an airline's crammed overhead bin. Is Pelican ProGear's resilient new Urban Elite Tablet Backpack tough enough? A backpack with a built-in watertight and crushproof tablet case. Commuters, business travelers—anyone traveling far, frequently, and with multiple gadgets. Steve Wozniak, perhaps? The all-black satchel has a heavy-duty plastic case for a tablet or ultrabook. A main compartment stows odds and ends, and there are two hidden zipper pockets on the back, one on the side (maybe for a camera?), and a front section with spots for your your pens, phone, and keys. Your back might ache, but this backpack fits a lot of crap. All that stuff gets pretty heavy and hard on the spine, in spite of the padded back panel and soft straps. Definitely the hard shell that envelops your precious (expensive) tablet. Lacks wheels—if it had just two it ...

Jul 21, 2012 3:00 PM   An Austrian company has developed a new kind of triple-layer fabric that allows this jacket to keep the wearer either warm or cool depending on how they wear it—making it the perfect accessory for globe-hopping adventurers who prefer to travel light. The Polychromelab fabric is stretchable, breathable, and waterproof—and while one side features a black outer layer that absorbs sunlight and heat, the other is bright and reflective, radiating it all away. So when worn with the black layer on the outside, the jacket will not only suck up the sun's rays to keep you warm, it will also reflect your own body heat back onto you on the inside. And when worn with the bright silver layer on the outside, the jacket will in turn reflect light and heat, and allow your body to breathe and cool down if you're sweating. The first jackets made from this new uber-material won't be out until September, but the company has apparently been testing the fabric for several ...