Launching a new product, especially an Android one, is no easy feat.  To kick off (literally) the launch of the Galaxy Note, Samsung put a mini football (soccer) field square in the middle of Victoria train station in London, England and got 4 footballers to perform a variety of awe inspiring tricks.  And while it was no flash mob, it created enough fan fair that anyone walking by might have thought it to be one.

The Galaxy Note is one of Samsung’s latest Android devices.  It’s wedged some where between a smartphone and a tablet as it sports a 5.3-inch touchscreen and comes packed with its very own stylus.  Inside the handy device you’ll find a dual-core 1.4Ghz processor, an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash that can record full HD video, a 2-megapixel front facing camera, WiFi N, GPS and a screen that can produce a 1280×800 resolution.  The Note ships with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), but Sammy promises to upgrade it Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in the very near future.

Google is expanding its Street View capabilities and now offering Google Store View that’s a new feature of the mapping app, which allows viewers to virtually take a peek inside of participating businesses and have a look around. One of the first Google Store View business participants is Manhattan’s B&H Photo Video Super Store. They volunteered because they thought it would be “cool” for people who can’t visit NY to take a tour of their shop, mentions Bryan Formhals, B&H’s social media manager.

They heard Google was implementing the new feature and contacted them about being one of the first to provide virtual tours of their store. Google then went in and scanned everything on the first floor of the store using GPS devices to ensure the location services were accurate. B$H also has a second store, but Google told them they didn’t have the technology at the moment to have the second floor added to the store view app.

To check it out yourself, get on Google Maps and type in: “B&H Photo Video Super Store, 9^th Avenue, New York, NY” and then click through the virtual tour of the shop, where you can zoom in and out as you would on the street view map option.

Getting your iPad to float mid air without wires will take some serious engineering skills and probably a magnetic the size of a car.  And even then we don’t know it would be possible.  So settling for second best, at least in this case, is what we’re willing to do.

The Magnus, from Ten One Design, is a beautifully crafted piece of iPad accessory glory.  It won’t make your iPad fly, but instead it will prop your iPad in up right position without using a slot.  In fact, it’s so minimalistic in nature that you can hardly tell when it’s in place.  You see the Magnum is a machine crafted pieces of aluminum that uses a set of high powered magnets to keep your iPad erect in portrait or landscape mode.  A set of rubber feet on the base keep it from slipping back, so when you’re ready, you just touch the rear of Apple’s tablet to the Magnum and shazzam, it stays standing.

You can buy the Magnus for $49.95, with shipping commencing 1/24.