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Southwest is one of the last major carriers to finally commit to in-flight Wi-Fi, but at least they're doing it right. According to a recent post on the Southwest blog, the airline is going to begin outfitting its planes with Row 44 Wi-Fi starting this spring, and will have the entire fleet connected by 2012.

The ramp-up will be slow at first, with just 15 planes per month getting internet-equipped. Pricing, too, hasn't yet been determined, and since almost every other airline uses a different service provider (Gogo), there's not a lot of pricing precedent. Southwest says it will be a "great value," though, so expect something at least competitive with the current standard of $5-$13. [Southwest Blog via Hot Hardware]

OK, so it's not really a power core. The Escape C is really just a necklace with some LEDs and Bluetooth controls, but this Tokyoflash product is still neat in its own right.

Pairing with pretty much any Bluetooth device—from an iPhone to a Skype-wielding PC—the Escape C can accommodate a pair of headphones (with mic) while streaming A2DP audio. Plus, typical volume, track advance and call controls offer you a means to control your music and communications without reaching into your pocket.

Of course, Tokyoflash couldn't create a product without some sort of cryptic time cipher, which is where those blue LEDs come into play. But we won't understand how that part works until the Escape C is released later this year for $150-$180. [egoism via lowyat via technabob]

The first Fermi graphics cards from Nvidia will bear the names GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. All preliminary hearsay indicates they will be ornery beasts. And cost as much as dragons. [Nvidia]

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to make some improvements to Apple's iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much.

First Place—Ron Cassel
Second Place—Jay Goebel
Third Place—Ken Grey

We've seen a black-and-white Iron Man MacBook decal before, but this full-color one is much more striking. Although you've gotta be OK with you equating Apple's logo with the powers of a superhero. Fanboys. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]

The 3.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone is out now, available through an iTunes update. It's no revelation, fixing only the accuracy of the 3GS battery meter and the stability of some third-party app launches.

One of the new bits of iPad viscera announced by Steve Jobs, besides the A4 chip, is that it's using a micro-SIM card for its 3G powers. What, pray tell, is a micro-SIM card?

It's the next generation of SIM card—3FF or third form factor—which is physically smaller, with less blubber around the shiny gold contact area, as you'll notice in this helpful picture from Wikipedia. The contact area, where the technobloop happens, is the same size, so it's backward-compatible with a physical adapter. But it fits in more stuff! Like a bigger internal phonebook that'll has room for emails, and a new authentication scheme that fights carrier spoofing.

Because it's the same size and stuff electrically, there's a chance you'll be able to shave down regular old SIM cards—so they'll physically fit in the slot—and use them in a micro SIM slot. Though we'll see how well that works when we get our hands on some stuff—like an iPad—to play with. [PC Mag, Engadget]

You just knew that Mosspuppet would get the first exclusive with Jobspuppet. Wide-ranging? Nah. But if you were curious how Jobs-o really feels about the iPad and Apple fanboys, this should clear things up nicely. [Mosspuppet]

After Apple announced the iPad, Barnes & Noble contacted me immediately to inform me that my long-standing Nook order was on its way. This new-to-me product has proven to be more than a little quirky—directly upon opening it.

But I'm not going to lament the Nook's ePub/DRM compatibility failings that sucked away a good portion of my wife's weekend when she just wanted to read—those have been well-documented on plenty of message boards by now. Nor will I complain that the arrangement of left and right page turn buttons is completely counter-intuitive. (Why wouldn't a button on the left of the screen flip pages back while a button on the right flipped pages forward? Instead, B&N uses an odd stacked arrangement.)

OK, I won't complain about those quirks much.

I just want to point out something so ridiculous that it encapsulates every obvious and avoidable design flaw with the Nook; it should serve as a symbol, a mascot, if you will, for all that is wrong with what should be a device every bit as natural to use as a book.

The Nook has a 2-page, 7-step set of instructions to explain how you pull the thing from its plastic case. I'm not exaggerating. Within the scope of the grandma test, it's fail incarnate.

The sadder point? Even with as many electronics as I unbox a week, it took me a good 5 minutes to figure this process out on my own. (After all, I never thought to turn to the instruction manual just to open the package.)

In other words, the Nook packaging actually necessitates these lengthy instructions, as ridiculous as they are in their own right. Somehow, Barnes & Noble invented a box that's every bit as complicated as their product.

Mighty rulers of B&N—CEOs with names I'm too lazy to Google at this time—don't let some prima donna designer or marketer tell you how to make or package your product. Ask your mom or grandma. They always knows best.

Read our full Nook review here.