Brad Leong's Brydge iPad case -- currently seeking funding on Kickstarter -- adds a MacBook-air-like keyboard to the iPad, turning it into a reasonable facsimile of a laptop.

The Brydge's aluminum body also includes speakers and Bluetooth support, and its hinge and clamp keep the iPad secure and allow it to be positioned at any angle.

Basically, it looks like the keyboard case Apple would make, if the company didn't want people to shell out a grand for a MacBook Air instead.

The Brydge can preordered on Kickstarter for $210 with speakers or $170 without them.

[technabob.]

Fragrance company Air Aroma and Melbourne, Australia-based art group Greatest Hits are collaborating on a new fragrance that smells like a freshly-opened MacBook, with notes representing "the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, the printed ink on the cardboard, and the aluminum laptop."

The scent was created for Greatest Hits' "De facto Standard" exhibition in Melbourne, and won't be made commercially available, so it looks like it still costs over a grand to get a whiff of a new MacBook.

[psfk.]