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If you use your iPad as not only in-wall home automation system control panel but as ordinary tablet the iRoom iDock in-wall iPad mount should be definitely interesting for you. Additionally to common iOS docks like audio connector, power device and landscape or portrait orientations it’s motorized to help you mount/unmount iPad. Moreover, the iRoom iDock has built-in the proximity sensor to automatically open the dock. Sure, it can be disable to do not annoy you open each time you walk by. The dock will shut automatically ten seconds after you open it up.

There is no any information regarding to iRoom iDock availability or price.

[via SlashGear]

Tablet PCs becoming more and more popular day by day. As result the number of their accessories also increase. One of the most useful from them is wall mounting kit. You may find a lot of them on the market. But most of them designed for iPad only and sometimes expensive. So, any universal and non-expensive solution merits a great attention. The Hedgie iPad & Universal Tablet PC Mounting Solution is one of them. It’s very simple and priced at £8 only! It can be used with iPad or any other Tablet PC to easy attach or detach device to the wall.

[via AutomatedHome]

Sanos offers elegant way to mount your LCD, LED or plasma without drilling the wall. The Sanos mounting kit includes three shelfs to accommodate HTPC with other AV equipment. It allows to mount up to 56-inch TVs and has a weight capacity on the top shelf up to 56 kg. Also all annoying wires can be hided behind the stand.

The price of Sanos’s TV stands is varied from $199.99 till $269.99.

Another in-wall mounts for iPad and iPod Touch – iPort was announced recently. As their analogues they are expensive – $500 and $250 respectively. Both mounts use chassis with a magnetically attached, rectangular fascia. That approach allows install or remove iPad or iPod Touch easily without using any special tools and it makes that kind of the mounts for Apple devices an unique. So, if you’d like to use your iPad or iPod Touch as in-wall controller as well as portable device the iPort looks the best option for that purpose.

[via AutomatedHome]

CEPro published a slideshow which demonstrates how your flat-panel TV can be mounted. I was impressed by different kinds of rotating interfaces and mounting TV over fireplace. In the last case some additional work should be done to protect TV from the heat.