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This is the greatest thing ever. Somebody in Chongqing, China decided to show their love for Apple products by dressing up in a homemade cyborg costume made of iMacs and other outdated Macs. Now he needs to go out and fight crime, with the awesome power of OS 2. More »
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Today Steve Jobs' death has us all reflecting on how a technology entrepreneur could have changed our lives so much, leaving us a world where we can't imagine daily life without Apple products. Partly that was because Jobs was never just a technologist. He always seemed to start with a social or cultural question, and tried to answer it with technology. That's why we have to remember Jobs not just as a technology innovator, but as a culture producer who, among other things, ran the innovative movie studio Pixar. More »
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Did Apple invent the iPad? Or did Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke? Samsung is using the above clip as a piece of evidence in its defense against Apple's patent lawsuit over the Galaxy S and similar tablet computers. More »
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People have ascribed all sorts of paranormal abilities to Steve Jobs... but could he have spurred Apple to create a time machine? That's what an anonymous poster at Quora hinted, and the post was picked up by Forbes' Brian Caulfield. More »
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Another day, another distressing story of ninja crime. A new report of stealthy artifice comes out of Greensboro, North Carolina, when a would-be Shinobi attempted to purloin some iPads from an Apple Store last Friday. More »
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South Park's 15th season premiere is this Wednesday. In celebration the show has unveiled a new killer app: the HUMANCENTiPAD. Yep, it's just as gross as it sounds. More »
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Throw out your glasses. Apple has applied for, and recently been granted, a patent for tech that could produce 3D images without the need for special eyewear. More »
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In these images, taken from a terrific photo investigation here, you can see how Apple's iPad ads transformed a frame from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek to make it appear to fit perfectly on the iPad screen. More »
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In Leon Wang's short film The Secret Mission of The Terminator, a T-800 in Beijing is reduced to panhandling for battery money. A passerby offers him some spare change, and then things get ugly. Looks like cyborgs hate Steve Jobs. More »
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The real question about Apple's new multitouch pseudo-computer, dubbed the iPad, is not whether it sucks or rocks. What all of us really want to know is whether it will change the future. The answer? Yes, but badly. More »
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Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry owned one of the first Mac-Pluses Apple built, back in 1986, and this led to him featuring the computer in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Now you can own Gene's Mac, model number 0001. More »
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Inspired by our suggestion to deal with the current Doctor Who drought by dipping back into the series' pre-Russell T Davies history? If you're an iTunes user, that's just been made easier than ever before: the BBC has released fourteen classic stories from the '60s, '70s and '80s on Steve Jobs' favorite DRM-happy resource - including episodes unavailable on DVD. More »
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Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Mac Funamizu is a tech geek, designer, and futurist who has created quite a lot of buzz among design circles for his innovative gadgets from the future. The 38-year old Tokyo native has always loved Apple, Google, and Starbucks, but he always felt inconvenienced by the extra steps involved in using them. (Why mouth off a complex multi-conditional order of coffee when you could just customize your cup of joe online? Why doesn't Google Maps give you more than just a topographic image of what you're looking at?) At first, his ideas were just rough sketches in his Moleskine. But then he started posting his neat, provocative ideas online, and now developers are contacting him to try and make some of them a reality. More »
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If Eve, the sleek lady-bot that becomes the apple of Wall-E's eye, looks like a shiny consumer gadget you'd want to own, it's not surprising. The Pixar/Disney animated space adventure Wall-E consulted with Jonathan Ive, one of the great Apple minds behind the iPod and iPhone, during the Eve's design process. In an interview with Fortune Magazine director Andrew Stanton describes his Apple inspiration, and what it was like trying to get information out of the tight-lipped Ive. So does Eve also need to be recharged after 4 hours of use? More details on the Apple and Pixar collaboration after the jump. More »
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Steve Jobs is the first non-science fiction character to possess a reality distortion field (RDF). Apple's MacWorld 2008 conference kicks off tomorrow with a keynote from Jobs, which leaves gadget lovers and iPod fiends white-knuckled on Tuesday morning as news of the next "insanely great" thing trickles out of Moscone Center in San Francisco. Why does this speech cause such furor (and fury) every year? RDF, of course. We've got the scoop on how Jobs came to posses the RDF, and we've got four other famous RDFs from science fiction for you to contemplate as you await the mind-control ray that will emanate from MacWorld tomorrow. More »
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NBC earns the distinction of having their show Heroes being the most pirated television show across the Web. Good for them, because it means people really want to see this thing. It's not like sites are putting together pirate DVDs of Heroes episodes and selling them willy-nilly on street corners. Well, at least here in Los Angeles they're not. I checked. One of the reasons that Heroes (and other NBC shows) shot to the top of this list is that NBC decided to sever their relationship with iTunes last year, meaning you couldn't zap these over to your iPod at $1.99 a pop. More »
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