You won't have to wait until the release of the Nintendo 3DS to experience autosterescopic (or glasses-free) 3D in a small form factor. A company called Spatial View will not rest until the iOS- or Android-based device in your palm begins spitting 3D images. To this end, it has developed a special lens holder called the 3DeeSlide that relies on the company's propriety lenticular lens technology to turn the concerned device into a 3D media player.

Spatial will also be providing 3D content through a smartphone app called 3DeeCentral.The app will be available first for Apple devices and then in the Android Marketplace.

“Watch stereo 3D content on your iPhone and iPod touch with Spatial View's 3DeeSlide. It's an easily installed lens holder with Spatial View's lenticular lens technology for high impact viewing of stereo 3D image and video content. Works in portrait and landscape mode and supports touch-through. Available this fall,” reads the official product page.

Having just watched a 3D movie on an iPhone, the Business Insider folks are going gaga over Spatial's glasses-free 3D solution that is “expected to cost under $20.” But as it turns out, this is not the company's first attempt at providing an autostereoscopic 3D experience to iPhone owners. It is also responsible for the woefully bad protective skin called the Wazabee 3DeeShell, which “consists of a two-part durable protective skin and a removable lenticular lens for seeing content in stereo 3D,” and which gives us plenty of reason to remain skeptical.

Audyssey is hoping to gain a foothold in the already crowded iPhone/iPod speaker dock market with the Audyssey Audio Dock: South of Market Edition. Audyssey chose San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood as the eponym for its maiden iDevice-centric product because of its “eclectic mix of restaurants, nightclubs, start-ups and artist lofts.”

As an audio system, it doesn't exclusively cater to the iPhone/iPod-brandishing crowd, but any bluetooth-enabled device can be used to wirelessly stream music to the dock. It has a built-in speakerphone for times when an important call takes precedence over an ongoing private listening session, allowing you to seamlessly “switch from a playlist to a conference call.”

The dock, when connected to a Mac or PC, allows you to stream audio, sync to iTunes, charge the iPhone or iPod and make VoIP calls. According to Audyssey, its looks are sure to be a talking point. But what it forgot to mention is that most of the conversations the dock evokes are  likely to be critical of its design.

“The system is bi-amplified like a professional studio monitor and the sound quality is delivered by five of Audyssey’s proprietary technologies:Audyssey Dynamic Voice, Audyssey EQ, Audyssey Dynamic EQ, Audyssey BassXT and Audyssey Dynamic Volume,” the company said in a release.

Audyssey still has a bit of time to reconsider the Audio Dock's $400 price tag. The dock is scheduled to make its debut in November.

Apple and Google have begun sparring over who has the fastest growing mobile OS, with both gloating on the sheer number of devices they are activating each day. However, it is often difficult to extricate the truth from such unabashed preening. Maybe Quantcast's latest monthly mobile data usage report could offer a more balanced perspective.

According to Quantcast, Android emerged as a more popular web browsing platform at the end of August, gaining another 2% share of mobile Web usage in the US. It managed an identical leap in July as well. Android devices now account for a quarter of all mobile data consumption in the country.

Apple's iOS, while still the leading devourer of mobile data bandwidth, is slowly but steadily conceding ground to Android. After dropping 2% over the past two months, it now accounts for 56% of all mobile data usage in the US.