You can’t do anything but walk around and gawk, but the tech demo that Epic Games showed off during the Apple live event today is available for download free from iTunes. It shows off just how amazing the iPhone 4 runs the super beefy Unreal engine.

The new iPod touch is here and it has all of the major features that we expected. A Retina Display to match the iPhone 4, Facetime video calling via a front-facing camera and a 3-axis gyro for more complex gaming. Some surprises include iOS 4.1 with Game Center integration and HD video recording.

The new iPod Nano has been announced, featuring a clip for wearing, a Multi-touch screen for controlling and a completely new UI that mirrors the iOS interface. It’s nearly half the size and weight of the previous gen Nano and features a built-in FM radio with live pausing.

The Apple event later today is the first to be streamed live since July of 2002, when approximately 50,000 people used Quicktime to watch the live webcast of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote. A major part of that keynote was the new streaming features of Quicktime 6, as demonstrated by the feed itself. Now there’s a lot of speculation that not only is Apple testing out their new Maiden, North Carolina data center, one of the largest ever built.

Austrian graphic designer Marc Krenn mocked up this promo shot of the iPod Nano 6G that has been teased by case manufacturers. It’s a really, really good mockup, so good that it could probably have been passed off as the real thing. We’ll see how close he came in a few hours!

I won’t be able to Liveblog tomorrows Apple Event, having to resort to commenting on the event via Twitter. Apple heard about this and decided that If I wasn’t going to be able to do it, they had better just go ahead and stream the event live for the first time in a long, long while tomorrow. The event will be streamed live to Macs, iPhones, iPod touches and iPads everywhere. Windows users? You’re out of luck.

Well this is interesting, Marco Quatorze, Telcel’s Director of Value Added Services in Mexico, says that Apple will release an iPhone 4 hardware update at the end of September to fix reception issues. The issues stem from an attenuation issue when the phone is held tightly in the left hand. Telcel has only just begun selling the iPhone 4 friday, but now Quatorze is claiming that a revision of the hardware that mends the antenna problem is on it’s way.

The US App Store has passed the quarter million milestone, according to 148Apps.biz data. Fortune magazine notes that the store reached this number two years and 49 days after it’s opening with the release of OS 3.0.

This is a neat video from the archives. A beshorted Steve Jobs introducing the Think Different campaign (remember that?) at a conference. He talks about what makes marketing successful and corporate identity from Apple’s perspective. Pretty interesting stuff. A YouTube commenter points this out: This video is probably made on September 28, 1997: the day [...]

Apple has announced a ‘Special Event’ for September 1st and the speculation has started to churn as to what’s going to be revealed at the Event. Here are my predictions for what may, or may not, be unveiled next month.