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If you’re a frequent viewer of movies on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ve surely run into the problem of having your hand fall asleep while trying to hold the thing. Or maybe you’ve been at the gym, wanting to read headlines while on the treadmill, while your device just keep slipping off and yanking your earbuds from your head. Enter thePodFlexPro. It’s a simple, innocuous piece of metal, wrapped in neoprene, that will save you from sliding-device heartbreak....

Have you ever been to a wholesaler’s trade show? Imagine a aircraft-hangar sized space with thousands of buyers and sellers writing orders. They all have smartphones, and many of them have iPads. Yet, almost all of the reps are writing orders on paper, handing the buyer a yellow-paper carbon copy, hoping that their handwriting is legible, and taking the order back to the office for some poor schmoe to type in by hand....

We’re huge fans ofMacheist, a deals site that bundles together Mac apps for one low price. Now MacHeist has come up with a similarly great idea, a puzzle game called The Heist that it built in conjunction with TapTapTap. The Heist [App Store, $0.99] is a game that uses 4 different puzzle types to confound you across 60 levels with game center acheievements built in. On top of that, it’s gorgeous....

We recently talked about how startups can go aboutsetting up a helpdeskto keep their customers well supported. Customer support is one of those areas of your business where it’s surprisingly easy to differentiate yourself — you’d be surprised to find that very few startups are really putting much of an effort in here. It got us thinking: what will the helpdesks of the future look like? Everyone loves a good spot of future conjecture, and even if these things never come to pass, it’s fun to consider....

Growing up in the US, I obviously can’t speak for what it’s like to interact with Government agencies in other parts of the world. Here, though, there’s always that degree of separation between “we the people” and Uncle Sam. Since 2009, NASA has been trying to change that, all in the name of followinga 1958 legislative actto the letter. I had a chance to talk this week with NASA Social Media Manager Stephanie Schierholz about the history of NASA’s outreach, as well as the future....