IOS ’86 BY ANTON REPPONEN
February 18, 2012
Designer Anton Repponen made my dream iPhone interface, which he calls iOS ’86. I wish with my whole heart that this could become reality….
CLOG: APPLE
February 17, 2012
The latest issue of architectural mag CLOG places its focus on Apple and its place in architecture:
“On 7 June 2011, Steve Jobs presented Apple Campus 2 to the Cupertino City Council. Due to Apple’s high profile – not to mention the scale and iconic nature of Foster + Partners’s design…
OS X Mountain Lion
February 17, 2012
With iOS now being Apple’s bread and butter, its no surprise the brand wants the same ease of use within the Mac OS line. This year the brand better integrates everything we love about iOS with the introduction of OS X Mountain Lion. Arriving this summer, the new OS will…
Samsung Audio Dock
February 15, 2012
New sound systems for our mobile devices hit the market on a daily basis, but very few hold the level of high end sophistication we may be searching for at times. The Samsung Audio Dock is the perfect set up for those of you looking for high end output with…
Audi R8 GT Spyder
February 15, 2012
The hand built Audi R8 GT Spyder is finally starting to hit the automotive scene, and this thing does not disappoint.
This beast of a car is packing a 5.2 liter V10 engine pumping out an astounding 560 horsepower that will get you to 60 miles per hour from a standstill…
Pinterest: Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012′s Hottest Startup [INFOGRAPHIC]
February 15, 2012
Pinterest has emerged as the runaway social media hit of early 2012. You probably knew that already. But did you know the company just has 12 people? Or that 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans are women?
Lemon.ly, a visual marketing firm, took a deep dive into the data to catalog Pinterest’s…
Fostex TH900
February 14, 2012
A new challenger to the audiophile scene has arrived from Japan to take on the Audio-Technicas and Grados of the world. Fostex’s TH900 ($2,300) boasts 50mm dynamic drivers with 1.5 tesla magnetic flux density and an earcup housing finished in a lacquer that is done by the centuries-old Sakamoto Lacquer…
Burberry Prorsum Braided iPad Case
February 14, 2012
Burberry isn’t one to just stamp its logo all over a sheet of leather and call it and iPad case. Their iPad Case ($625) from Burberry Prorsum has an artisanal quality with hand punched detailing and braided leather adds a unique character that sets it apart from the typical sleeves…
“The Apple Story”
February 13, 2012
Nice documentation about the big name Apple. With interviews, behind the scenes material & more….
Jaineel Shah’s Brilliant Pinch Hanger
February 10, 2012
When hang-drying that favorite tee I can’t afford to shrink anymore, I take a coat hanger and go in through the neckhole, doing that coat hanger version of a three-point turn. On a clumsy day I’ll stretch the neck a bit, but manipulating the hanger by going in through the…
Aluminium Speaker Dock Looks Right At Home Under Your iMac
February 10, 2012
Another day, another iOS device dock designed to compensate for their unimpressive built-in speakers. Today it’s Philips with its elongated DS6100 featuring an aluminium housing that’s designed to perfectly complement your iMac.
A pair of neodymium speakers with 20 watts of total power should considerably outperform the speaker on your iPhone…
Type This Into Google for a Valentine’s Day Surprise
February 10, 2012
Romantic math geeks, your moment has arrived. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, go ahead and type (or paste) this into Google search:
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5
Twitter user @Huckberry tipped us off to the fact that typing in the algebraic equation plots several different functions on a graph…
Watch Every Apple Design Ever in a 30-Second Video
February 10, 2012
Rob Beschizza over at BoingBoing put together this awesome video that runs through more or less every iteration of every design Apple’s ever done. It’s mesmerising how even the retro Apple stuff is so obviously ancient but still abides by the same tenets of design as today’s stuff.
Beschizza also threw…
Siri Might Be Speaking Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian by March
February 9, 2012
Per a report from Chinese tech blog DoNews, the Siri voice-assistant may be speaking the three new languages by March. The website cites an unnamed Apple engineer working on the Mandarin version, which is reportedly already in testing.
Siri currently supports three English accents, as well as French, and German. There’s…
NASA’s Plane Plans
February 9, 2012
In America’s recent Florida primary, one candidate was lambasted by another for discussing plans to build a base on the moon—to an audience coming from a state with a nearly 10% unemployment rate, back here on Earth. The moon is not really what’s on people’s minds these days. Which raises…
The Olympics Will Have Bombproof Trash Cans with LCD Screens
February 8, 2012
Trash cans are the eyesores of city life, like the grimy physical manifestation of popped pimples overflowing with bags and Chinese takeout ooze. The Olympics? A magnifying glass on a city’s life. That’s why it’s not surprising to see London introduce new, stylish trash cans as a quick makeover —…
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