After giving an exclusive chrome treatment to the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones recently, ColorWare has now announced the availability of the hotly awaited iPad 2. Offered in a wide range of custom colors, the ColorWare custom painted iPad 2 is available with either the gloss finish or a Softouch finish. While a new ColorWare iPad 2 costs $900, you also have the option to send in your iPad 2, and they will color it for $400. On the other hand, the 3G AT&T version will set you back $1030.

Aston Martin has announced its second iPhone app, a tool which the company claims harnesses never-before-seen technologies to allow drivers to record information about their journey.
The Aston Martin Experience follows the launch of the free Explore app in December of last year, but this version comes at a cost – but not one that should put Aston Martin buyers off installing it on their iPhones.
The app includes guides to forty cities world-wide, developed in conjunction with the popular A Hedonist’s Guide series, along with a ‘Top Roads’ section detailing the …

LaCie has teamed up with French luxury brand Christofle to produce a silver-plated, pebble-shaped 4GB USB flash drive called “Galet”. The luxury USB flash drive, which sells for $130, is plated with silver and shipped in its own pouch and gift box from LaCie’s Paris factory.

The drive includes LaCie’s password-protection software and a matching amount of online storage via Wuala, providing extra protection, and is USB 3 compatible. It weighs a mere 1.34 ounces and comes with an optional strap for adding onto a keychain, measuring 3.5 x 1.5 x …

Google said today that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2000 strong workforce in the city. Google did not announce a purchase price for the building at 111 Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood but the New York Post put the cost at 1.77 billion dollars.
The newspaper said the final price, including transfer taxes and assorted other fees, could be 1.9 billion dollars. “Google New York started in a Starbucks on 86th Street with one person in 2000′” said David Radcliffe, Google’s …

WOW. Another Legendary piece of equipment is coming to an end. Japanese electronics pioneer Sony said it would ship the last Walkman cassette players this spring after a 31-year run. First the turntable, now this.
In July 1979 the first Walkman portable cassette players were produced. The last production run for the Walkman would be in April 2011, Sony said earlier today.
Sony sold 3,000 Walkman players in the first month, but eventually produced 200 million of them as the device became an iconic symbol of musical freedom. To get facts …

So this morning Apple sent out some invitations for their Back To The Mac event next week on the 20th of October. What’s interesting is the invite has the Apple Logo but it also has a Lion peaking out from behind it.
Before you get too excited, don’t expect OS X 10.7 to be released at this event. Instead rather a teaser of what’s to come but the Lion and what role it plays will definitely be interesting.
Something else to take note of is Back To The Mac. Does this mean …