Is Apple Developing a Smart Watch?
What will it look like? Speculation is rampant, and yet, no official word…
Yeah. Curved glass will be the new future.
Unreleased Apple products revealed in designer Hartmut Esslinger’s upcoming book »
German designer Hartmut Esslinger’s (the founder of Frog Design, the firm responsible for some of Apple’s most iconic products of the 1980s, including the Apple IIGS and the Macintosh II) new book Design Forward “overviews ‘strategic design’, and how innovative progression has sparked creative change in the consumer market, especially for one of the most successful American companies ever built: Apple.”
Esslinger provided the designboom team with photos of several product prototypes, including an all-in-one, dual-screen Mac workstation and a touchscreen-based Macphone — a stylus-based Mac fused with a corded telephone. There are also several different takes on the classic Macintosh design and a better look at the Tablet Mac prototype circa 1982.
In the early days of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs would occasionally sign computer chips, attach them to Apple stationery and send them out randomly to Apple fans.
If you’re an obsessive Appleholic who lives in the no Microsoft zone, you will no doubt love to hang this 27″ x 39″ print on your wall that chronicles the history of the most valuable company on earth »
All new for 2013: the world’s most comprehensive mapping of Apple products. This print shows every computer, handheld, peripheral device, software, and operating system released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Over 500 products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors which have arisen as Apple has invented–and reinvented–insanely great products.
If that’s not enough, each print is signed and numbered by the artists, from a limited edition of 1000. Check out the link above for a zoomable & interactive version.
Yes, they did announce the iPad Mini. It has a screen measuring 7.9 inches diagonally and pricing starts at $329. However, for the cellular version, that price bumps up to $459 for the 16GB version.
Other new products from Apple’s event today:
If you want to make yourself sure that Steve Jobs still getting #ThankYouSteveJobs tweets make sure you check it out this hash-tag.
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch:
Similarly, actually remembering and recounting tales of your first computer will soon be this odd, old person thing to do, too. Kids’ first computers will be their parents’ hand-me down iPads. There are children being born into the world now who have always had an iPad. Like, from babyhood. I know that you know this already, but really think about that for a minute.
Imminent fast changes in the realm of digital culture.
Remember Steve Jobs today by revisiting the insanely great history of Apple.
“It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.” ~Steve Jobs, (Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011)
This crazy Steve Jobs sculpture is supposedly made with a touch of Jobs’ stolen trash »
The sculpture, made by XVALA, is due to be shown at a gallery in Los Angeles starting early in October. As for the trash thing, Cory Allen Contemporary Art described it this way in the announcement of the piece:
Coated in an “Apple White finish,” the sculpture is cast in the artist’s patented plastic porcelain, mixed with a recycled resin made up of Steve Job’s residential trash which the artist collected from the tech icon’s home several months before his death.
