Yes, yes, we all know that the new iPad unveiling was as really big deal. However, it appears that it was a bigger deal than even Apple anticipated as the consumer electronics maker has completely sold out of its pre-order stock. What’s more, the delivery date has slipped on pre-orders from March 16 to March 19. This news has no doubt ruined someone’s day.

For whatever reason, Apple likes to play coy on the amount of RAM inside their iPads. The news always comes out, though, and a report over on The Verge says that their all-knowing, mysterious sources have let slip that the new third-generation iPad has doubled the amount of RAM in the iPad 2 and is sitting pretty at 1 GB.

Earlier today, Apple unveiled the third generation iPad — simply named iPad – and it rang reminiscent of the iPhone 4S announcement. Sure, the hardware is an upgrade, and it’ll come packed with new-tech smell, but it won’t blow your mind, and if you bought an iPad 2 anytime in the last year, you won’t exactly be thrilled that it is now an older model, even though it’s not all that much worse than the newer one. All of the details, and the astonishing reveal that the new iPad doesn’t actually come with new-tech smell, after the break.

In case you weren’t aware, Apple is currently engaging in a bitter dispute with the Chinese company Proview over who owns the rights to the “iPad” name. Turns out that Proview, which has been semi-defunct for quite some time, produced something called an Internet Personal Access Device or iPAD. It certainly doesn’t look like a tablet computer, but it certainly does look like a cheap iMac knock off.

So you like the idea of living in the romantic past, but only to the extent that it doesn’t inconvenience you, huh? You’re the kind of person who wants the personal pleasure of sending letters, without the trouble of having to write and send them? If that’s the case, you probably also want a typewriter that’s also an iPad because, lets face it, you’re a hipster. All that aside, an iPad typewriter —  the Typescreen – really does exist and it lets you gleefully drink in a pre-”word processor” nostalgia. All that while reaping the benefits of the modern world. Come to think of it, that sounds pretty awesome. Sign me up.

According to Global Equities Research, Apple’s outing into the textbook market with iBooks 2 seems to be off to a good start with some 350,000 textbook downloads in a mere three days. Add to that about 90,000 downloads of Apple’s free textbook creation tool Author, the amazingly low cost for producers and consumers of digital textbooks, and it would seem that education is finally ready to jump the digital divide. Or is it?

Are you speechless, or just surprised no one thought of this earlier? Behold: The Fleshlight Holding iPad Case for all your, you know, needs. Let’s not qualify that with an adjective; it speaks for itself. Now, it’s worth noting two things here. This is neither a real thing — it’s a concept mockup — nor is it officially endorsed by Fleshlight in any way, shape, or form. Last thing we need is letters from Fleshlight to start showing up at the Geekosystem office. But yeah. This is a thing someone thought of. Welcome to the future, everyone.

As part of an education event in New York City today, Apple announced iBooks 2 for the iPad which will attempt to use tablet technology to make textbooks better and more interesting. Naturally, iBooks isn’t going to be dealing with straight electronic representations of traditional several-pound, text-and-image textbooks. No, iBooks is all about the bells and whistles. Bells and whistles like 3D images, video, and multitouch gestures. No word on whether any of this actually makes reading for class fun.

There seems to be no end of possibilities for Apple’s iPad tablet: You can explore stonehenge, Orangutans can play with it, cats can slice fruit with it, and you can fake a grievous bodily injury with it. Now, you’ll apparently be able to help run a government with one, too. At least, that’s the plan for British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is having a specially made “government dashboard” app developed especially for him.

In an Internet singularity most welcome, videos of adorable animals playing video games are rising to the forefront. This time, we have a cute kitty playing Fruit Ninja on an iPad. The cat is pretty good, but doesn’t get nearly as mad as this bullfrog, or as suspicious as this bearded dragon when playing video games.