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New 3G iPhone
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday. The 3G iPhone will be the “first of an impressive wave of new products” from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco. In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a “minor casing change” and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.
Those predictions are consistent with a February prediction Gardner made that 3G iPhones will be announced by midyear. The 3G iPhone release will help Apple meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008, Gardner wrote at the time. Apple is confident it will sell 10 million iPhones this year, officials said during a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the company’s second-quarter earnings. Apple sold more iPhones than expected during the quarter and iPhone inventories were not enough to meet the strong demand.
Source: Yahoo
No commentsCompany out of KZ mich does cheap iPod repair
Is your iPod dead? A victim of a bad battery? Or showing that telltale “sad Mac” icon? Or some other mystery ailment that prevents you from accessing your music on the go?
Don’t trash it. Kalamazoo-based Rapid Repair may be able to save it. If not, they can at least keep it out of a landfill, and maybe even put some change in your pocket for the spare parts.
Considering the cost of a new one, what have you got to lose?
The brainchild of discussions in online forums, Rapid Repair started out as iPodMods in 2003. Back then, service manager Aaron Vronko says, the small shop focused primarily on tricking out iPods. They installed new backlights on the plain gray LCDs of the prevideo iterations of the iPods to make them glow in reds and blues and greens. They installed new cases to make the iPod cases transparent. And, naturally, they moved into battery replacement as the growing base of iPod owners discovered that Apple’s batteries eventually lost the ability to hold a charge for very long.
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An online storefront followed in 2004, and, Vronko says, “we’ve been going since then.” They employ 15 people in a brick-and-mortar storefront on West Main Street in Kalamazoo.
In 2007, Vronko, 25, and partner Ben Levy, 28, changed the company’s name to Rapid Repair to reflect their growing business base: They had progressed to repairing other devices, such as the iPhone, Microsoft’s Zune, various PDAs and even game consoles — as many as 500 repairs a week — and offering parts to do-it-yourselfers.
But iPods remain a core of the business, Vronko says. They even designed their own clear replacement case, the iVue Clear, for the current generation of iPods.
No commentsAIbert Einstein, is a physicist
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With all of our recent technological advancements, we’ve collected our greatest minds for the ultimate goal, allowing our god complex to dictate over our honed morality twisting it into ungodly reason. Without government restrictions, a scientific task force in a South Korean lab has executed their reprehensible agenda, and spawned the abominable cybernetic organism that is…
Humanoid Robot, Albert Hubo v1.0.
Abilities:
1.) Live Speech Recognition and excellent pronunciation.
2.) Can wiggles his ears (just like Albert Einstein would if he were here today).
3.) First jewish robot (unless i missed something from spaceballs).
4.) It’s a god damned android with Albert Einstein’s head.
5.) Is a physicist.
At the beginning of the video it looks like it’s suffering, so lifelike i actually feel a bit bad. If you’d like to see more of Albert Hubo‘s impressive expressions [click here]
Arnold will be president, and these bad boys are going to be at your door collecting the census and gunning down your children.
face was designed by [Hanson Robotics]
post by Christos
No commentsiRing, wtf
With a stylish design and wireless Bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices. iRing features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days. Conveniently recharge your iRing using the included cradle. Its minimal size and unique ring-lock mechanism make it an ideal companion for charging and storing your iRing.
When my friend asked me about the iRing, i couldnt believe i was right, apple put out some crazy ass piece of jewelry peripheral that interfaces with the goddamn iphone and ipod touch. Assholes. This shit is ridiculous
Designer: Victor Soto
Apple’s Future; Braun’s Past
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:
When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York’s MoMA—and compare them to Ive’s work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design “honest.”This passion for “simplicity” and “honest design” that is always declared by Ive whenever he’s interviewed or appears in a promo video, is at the core of Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:• Good design is innovative.• Good design makes a product useful.• Good design is aesthetic.• Good design helps us to understand a product.• Good design is unobtrusive.• Good design is honest.• Good design is durable.• Good design is consequent to the last detail.• Good design is concerned with the environment.•Good design is as little design as possible.Ive’s inspiration on Rams’ design principles goes beyond the philosophy and gets straight into a direct homage to real products created decades ago. Amazing pieces of industrial design that still today remain fresh, true classics that have survived the test of time.The similarities between products from Braun and Apple are sometimes uncanny, others more subtle, but there’s always a common root that provides the new Apple objects not only with a beautiful simplicity but also with a close familiarity.
Braun Atelier TV and latest iMac 24
Macbook Air
1.6 to 1.8 ghzIntel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
800MHz frontside bus
2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM onboard
Size & Weight:
- Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
- Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
- Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
- Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)
Storage:
80GB 4200-rpm Parallel ATA hard disk drive
Optional 64GB solid-state drive
Optional external USB MacBook Air SuperDrive
Graphics:
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
DVI output using micro-DVI to DVI adapter (included)
VGA output using micro-DVI to VGA adapter (included)
Composite output using micro-DVI to video adapter (optional)
S-video output using micro-DVI to video adapter (optional)
Pros:It’s boast a nice 5 hour battery life, new signature “multi-touch” controls (ala iPhone), 802.11n wirless, wireless recognition of drives from computer on a network. You can spackle with it.Cons:External superdrive will set you back $99, and reduced performance; 1.6ghz – 1.8 ghz is slow, and max mem capacity is 2gig. For the 1.8ghz you have to have the 64gig solid state hard drive, you dont have a choice,. You only get one usb, you’re going to need a hub, or super trendy extra fancy usb massage balls.
Axiotron Modbook.
Axiotron, Inc., together with distribution partner Other World Computing, is drawing huge crowds at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, as attendees flock to take its new Mac OS X-based “ModBook” tablet computer for a test run.
…Each ModBook starts off as a MacBook Core 2 Duo but undergoes a surgical operation where its original display and keyboard are severed, then replaced with a new 13.3-inch Wacom pen enabled widescreen display set in a chrome-plated magnesium top shell.
…Meanwhile, the tablet retains all of the hardware features of the current Apple MacBook line, such as a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an integrated camera and CD/DVD combo drive.
…Additional configurations include such options as: an Axiotron ModBook GPS Module, 2 year warranty extension plans, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, up to 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, up to 160GB (5400-RPM) or 200GB (4200-RPM) hard drive, 6x or 8x DVD±RW and CD-RW slot-load combo drive.
…During Macworld and until January 31st, Other World Computing is offering the complete ModBook base configuration plus the built-in Axiotron GPS Module at a Special Introductory Price of $2,199.
[summarized from an article via AppleInsider]
I’ll let this pedophile give you a brief overview:
My honest opinion, this is worth it to the digital artist. Axiotron has masterfully encased all the horse power into a rugged, responsive tablet that will make it possible for a designer on the go to effectively implement their concepts. Think efficiency when it comes to work group and quick input/output; you can slide it across the table to your mate and they can quickly jot down adjustments or additional comments with speed and precision. The addition of the Inkwell keyboard free software that comes installed makes the package an undeniable competitor against the macbook line up.
The price isn’t disputable, in fact it’s relatively cheap for an after market mac modification. I’m guessing they have good channel for the base system parts, or they resale the scrap to apple or even ebay.
Be the first on your project block: Buy One from macsales
No commentsBreaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details
What you see above is simple mock-up from Wired artists. An Apple insider told Wired today that the company’s new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at the bottom behind the keyboard.
“It’s unbelievably thin,” said the source.
The device is made of aluminum and glass, and uses the same design language as recent Apple consumer products: black on silver.
Sadly, we don’t have details on pricing, specs or availability. Expect reality to disagree with our photoshops.
Is this cable-free design the face of things to come? Charlie Sorrel of Wired pointed out earlier today that the rumor mill hints of a new MacBook utterly devoid of cables. However, he wouldn’t speculate on its physical dimensions. But now we’ve got the, uh, skinny on what this new ultra slim, ultra portable actually looks like thanks to one source who says they saw this device in the wild.
Steve Jobs is widely expected to reveal a new MacBook at Macworld on Tuesday morning, and with the rumored name being “MacBook Air.”
Most people are expecting a conventional sub-notebook — a super-thin, lightweight laptop that ships without an optical CD/DVD drive. The MacBook Air may also dispense with a wired Ethernet port, according to rumor. It will be a purely wireless device, relying solely on Wi-Fi or other wireless technology for its connectivity — hence the “Air” moniker.
But the Air seems more like a ultra portable with a physical keyboard and multi-touch screen, according to our source (who we promised not to name but confirmed works at an Apple third-party vendor).
We’ll see tomorrow.
Apple didn’t respond to Wired a request for comment.
[via wired]
And apparently Wallstreet says Leopard is better, and faster, than Vista. I believe it. See for yourself.
I’ve amounted a small collection of what Apple fans have concocted in the past couple months:
As well as this well rendered but far fetched animation i found from Popular Mechanics.
If this does not wet your pallet, how about something a little more tangible:
[This photo via apple insider]
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