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Should we expect to see two new iPhones in September? Although it’s an interesting possibility, it doesn’t seem very likely.

Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore claims that Apple will be releasing two iPhone models in September: a completely new model — referred to as the iPhone 5 — and an essentially souped-up iPhone 4 called the iPhone 4S.

“With Nokia and RIMM struggling, the time is right for Apple to aggressively penetrate the midrange smartphone market (i.e.

I let other people’s babies play with my iPad, usually to shut the whining brats up when they start to cry (again). The soothing tones and gently flashing pulses of SoundPrism usually do the trick, but inevitably these impatient monsters start to stab at the screen, harder and harder until I’m worried about them smashing the glass with their stubby, undeveloped fingers.

So, seeing as kids are pretty easily amused, I’m thinking of taking the anaPad with me whenever I can’t get out of visiting my over-breeding friends.

This is the Hoverbike, a flying machine that is terrifying and awesome in equal measure. Unlike a flying car, which puts the rider in a relatively safe cocoon before firing him off into the sky, the Australian Hoverbike is a flying equivalent of a regular motorbike.

If you were to flip the wheels 90-degrees so they lay parallel to the ground, and then swapped out those wheels for rotor blades, you’d have the Hoverbike.

There’s one very neat new feature that will come to every iPhone and iPad 2 with iOS 5: a free remote cable release. According to Brian Sweet of the Cult of Mac blog, the volume button on the iPhone’s headphone cord works just as well as the volume button on the iPhone when it comes to triggering the camera app.

This means you can stick the iPhone on one of many, many tripods or stands and snap a blur-free shot. It’s a shame that you can’t control the shutter speed manually for proper long, low light shots as you can with a real camera, but we’ll settle for what we can get — bear in mind that any camera made in the last 10-15 years requires an expensive, proprietary remote to do this, whether by cable or IR.

HTC’s Sensation won’t hit the shelves until mid-June, and we’ve been eager to get our hands on the dual-core–powered smartphone for some time. We’ve now taken one for a test drive, and it was worth the wait.

The Sensation’s Qualcomm Snapdragon chip sports 1.2-GHz of processing power, scrolling and whipping through menu screens with ease. Running the Halo-esque HD game Nova on the device made for seamless gaming.

Remember the Looxcie? It’s a low-resolution, wearable video camera that beams footage to your Android phone or iPhone. Now comes the Looxcie 2, a smaller, lighter version which also comes with a bunch of new attachment options, as well as compatibility with Apple iCloud.

The old Looxcie was ear-mounted, and looked like an oversized Bluetooth earpiece. Now you can also mount it on a bike, a helmet, or anywhere else you might like to record crappy VGA resolution video.

Who wants a boring old light switch on their wall when they could have a pair of classic arcade machine buttons to bash instead? The extremely boringly-named Working Arcade Light Switch is a straight swap-in replacement for your current, super-lame light-switch, and you can wire it yourself.

The switch comes from Etsy maker Aleph Design, and can be had in any color combo you want. For the full arcade effect, they should be paired with a joystick coat-hook.

One year after the iPad’s release, third-party apps have improved dramatically in usability, according to an interface scientist.

Jakob Nielsen, often hailed as “king of usability,” published results this week on a follow-up study examining iPad app interfaces. He found that iPad apps today are considerably “less wacky” and therefore easier to use than they were last year.

“We really came quite a long way in a year, and a year is a short amount of time,” Nielsen told Wired.com in a phone interview.

Vending machines. Who doesn’t love them? And the undisputed world champion of the vending machine is Japan, where you can buy pretty much anything with the drop of a coin or the swipe of a cellphone. But whilst you can buy anything from iPods to marijuana to umbrellas, can you actually survive on the mean streets of Tokyo without once buying sustenance from another human being?

That’s what reporter Tom Edwards wanted to find out, so he set out with two friends to spend 24 hours buying anything they needed from vending machines.

A new piece of malware has caused an uptick in Apple customers reporting infected machines, renewing a timeless debate on the state of Macintosh security versus Windows.

The trojan horse is called Mac Defender. It’s a web pop-up containing a spoof message that tells customers their machines are infected by a virus and they must install anti-virus software. If customers agree to install the software, the program sporadically loads porn websites on their computer.