TabTimes and the Application Developers Alliance revealed today that the Tabby Awards deadline has been extended until May 6th.

The contest will celebrate the top consumer apps in the world of tablets, exploring some of the best mobile content. The company has also launched Tablet Ecosystem, a new conference in September. Here’s more from the company:

The TABBY AWARDS competition is open to consumer applications written for the iOS, Android, and Windows 8 operating systems. The competition covers 27 categories including Entertainment, Games, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Music, News, Shopping, Social, Sports, and Video. A panel of experienced app developers, designers and publishers, as well as tech bloggers and journalists are being assembled to judge the competition.

Eurostar’s ePad Femme is as offensive as Bic’s Cristal for Her Ball Pen. To be sure, the woman in me loves being told I am special – but not with a pink tablet that comes with preloaded apps for yoga, shopping lists, recipes, and clothing size conversion.

Eurostar’s Associate Vice President Mani Nair told the Jerusalem post that “The Tablet comes preloaded with applications so you can just turn it on and log in to cooking recipes or yoga. It makes a perfect gadget for a woman who might find difficulties in terms of downloading these applications and it is a quick reference.”

Mani also doesn’t believe that there was an underlying sexist agenda with the weight-loss advice that came with the Women’s Assistant app. Read more

Wish you could write on your iPad?

We looked for advice about the Best iPad Stylus for Writers, but these choices can get costly.

YouTube is loaded with recipes for creating a homemade stylus for your tablet or smartphone. If you want to start scribbling on your device, choose a recipe from the five videos embedded in this post–what’s your favorite?

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A new web comic by ponders perhaps the most disturbing thing about using tablets: the moment when you can see your face reflected in the unflattering mirror of a black screen.

Anybody else have this problem?

The comic was created by Reddit user fkcmx, who promises “I will do it more and often” if people enjoy his first web comic.

If you think that tablets are too clunky, then get ready for PaperTab, a 10.7-inch tablet that is as thin as a piece of paper.

The tablet is a collaboration between Human Media Lab at the Queen’s University at Cambridge, Plastic Logic and Intel Labs. The tablet looks like a piece of paper in plastic but has an interactive flexible touchscreen powered by the Intel’s coretm i5 processor.

The device doesn’t have any buttons or swipe gestures, you control it by bending it. For example, you can bend the page to fast forward through a video or scroll through a PDF document. You can reverse the action by moving the device back in the opposite direction. The contents are managed through multiple interactive displays or “papertabs.” Read more

Camera maker Polaroid has introduced a new tablet computer for kids with rubber bumpers to protect it from falls and from liquids getting in. The Polaroid 7-inch Android 4.0, which Polaroid is demonstrating at CES, is an Internet-enabled 8GB tablet with an 800×480 resolution screen that comes with a built-in camera. It is available for $149.99.

The tablet comes preloaded with apps, including creativity apps Kids Cam, Music Studio and Draw. It also comes preloaded with the Nook bookstore. It also comes with ten interactive books including Dr. Seuss and Smithsonian titles.

The tablet also comes preloaded with Kids Vids, a video streaming app that filters videos for different age groups. It also includes Free Play,a tool that sorts all of the free kid-friendly games/apps available.

It’s Cyber Monday and a great day to get a deal on an older generation tablet. Amazon is offering its 8GB 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet for $129 today only, which is $30 off of the normal $169 price for the device. The deal is good while supplies last.

Today, Barnes & Noble is giving away a $20 B&N gift card with the purchase of a Nook Tablet — the older generation Nook device — if you use a MasterCard.

Newegg.com is selling the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for $499, $50 off of the usual $549 price tag. Target is offering the 9.4″ 32GB Sony Android tablet for $349.99, $150 off of list price today. B&H Photo is offering a 10.1″ Asus 32GB Transformer Pad for $34.95, $50 off of the list price, as well as the Archos 8GB Android 10.1 tablet for $199.95, $50 off of the list price. Read more

New York City is revitalizing old pay phones and turning them into informational tablet kiosks.

The tablet kiosks, which are being called “SmartScreens,” let people find directions, check out local news and even contact emergency services. NYC announced the program back in April, but the first conversions opened up this week. Cisco Systems and City24x7 are powering the program. So far the city has converted ten stations into these 21st century information booths, but the program calls for 250 conversions throughout the five  boroughs of NYC.

The kiosks are outfitted with free Wi-Fi. In addition, the kiosks are outfitted to help out in emergency situations, which could come in handy during the next hurricane (if they aren’t flooded or they don’t lose power, that is). Here is more from City24x7′s website: “City24x7 is built to deliver critical first-alert information directly to the very environments where we live, travel and work. In addition, the embedded connectivity has possibilities for a wide range of sensors and services including still and video cameras, environmental and biological sensors.” Read more

The designers at Cinesaurus are back again one of their reinterpretations of tablet commercials.

This time around they took the idea from the iPad Mini commercial and created an ad for the Microsoft Surface. It’s quite clever in the ways in which it shows that the Surface is a much more capable tablet.

A Mockup or the Real Thing?

According to The Verge, a new 7″ Surface tablet has been confirmed as being in the works. It’s going to be called the Xbox Surface and if this rumor is true then it will likely have specs similar to the ones leaked back in June. Read more