When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building; which sounds a bit odd,” he said. “But we’ve seen these…
This is what your Mac keyboard will look like in 100 years
After the excavation, everybody attending the 2113 meeting of the World Anthropology Association discussed what they'd found. It was a century-old midden pit, full of Apple devices from the days before the company had gotten into biological devices and cloning kits.
Siri's deranged synopses of science fiction films prove that she'll be…
It has been said that Apple's Siri is an important precursor to more advanced intelligent personal assistants. Eventually, it's thought, we'll be able to have actual conversations with these sorts of AI, and possibly even relationships. But as Laura June of The Verge has recently pointed out, Siri is not to be trusted…
Dinosaurs! DNA! Space Shuttles! 10 Things to Make With Your 3-D Printer
It'll probably be a few more years before 3-D printing begins revolutionizing the world of retail
Tour the former ruins of Steve Jobs' now-demolished mansion
In 1984, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs purchased Jackling House, a mansion that had been built for the copper magnate Daniel Cowan Jackling. Although Jobs had the building demolished last year prior to his death, it spent several years as a crumbling ruin of its former glory, a fading memorial to one of the great…
Totally Badass Cyborg Costume Made of Old Apple Computers
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China decided to show their love for Apple products by dressing up in a homemade cyborg costume made of iMacs and other outdated Macs.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.
RIP Steve Jobs, who made the world more science fictional
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,…
Samsung uses 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art in Apple's iPad lawsuit
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.
Is Apple using its mountains of cash to build a time machine?
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.
