Calling Ripley’s Believe or Not! Warning, warning, this is not a drill. Steve Ballmer is in the hizouse. CEO of Microsoft, now the second most valuable tech company in the U.S. (the first spot was just recently overtaken by Apple oddly enough), Steve Ballmer is allegedly scheduled to have a 7-minute chunk of speaking time during Steve Jobs’ keynote at ...
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iPad XL: Finally Enough Power for Flash
It might take an iPad with a combustion engine in order to run Flash properly on a mobile device, but hey, for Farmville? Anything! �Honda has engineered the hell out of this thing,� said Steve Jobs, �This is the world�s quietest combustion engine � only 96 decibels. The revolutionary iPad XL gives you all the magic of iPad, and makes ...
Read More »Millenium Falcon Server Keeps Your Data Safe From the Death Star
Whether it be a simple place to hold your data or the sacred home of your personal website, you’d like to know that your information is kept safe from any evil forces. The Millenium Falcon Server may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts. The Millenium Falcon is capable of outrunning Imperial starships. Not the local ...
Read More »World of Warcraft on the iPad
WoW addicts will be happy to know that there’s a way to take your addiction to the road. At least that’s what is alleged. Apparently it’s possible to run World of Warcraft on the iPad via Dave Perry’s non-commercial (yet) Gaikai game streaming service, which somehow bypasses Apple’s imprisonment of Flash and combines Java, Flash and Silverlight to create a ...
Read More »The Vitruvian Inspector: Go Go Gadget Da Vinci!
Vitruvius Pollio, the man who inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s work on his iconic Vitruvian Man, once described the human body as being “the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture.” Maybe that’s true when you’re dealing with a perfectly proportioned male specimen, such as myself, but Inspector Gadget’s form is more akin to that of a fun ...
Read More »Retro Rotary iPhone Dock: Tonight We’re Gonna Call Like It’s 1939
Have you been looking for that perfect way to introduce grandma to the 21st century? The iRetrofone Base makes it an easier transition from rotary phone to iPhone. Or just adds a nice retro touch to your mancave. Each handmade iRetrofone is sculpted and cast one at a time out of resin. Compatible with all iPhone models, the base allows ...
Read More »A Mask of Photo Booth You
You know how you can use Apple’s Photo Booth app to take some crazy-ass photos of yourself using the various effects? Designer Mark Pernice had the bright idea of creating a mask representing one of the photos taken using Photo Booth and then somehow magically using the app to recompose himself while wearing the mask. Or something like that. I ...
Read More »Staring at the Surface of the Sun
What can we learn from this image of the surface of the Sun taken in 2007 by the Swedish Solar Telescope. Well, for one, it was a surprise to me that the Sun’s surface is composed of pomegranate seeds. Very very large pomegranate seeds (the white line in the left corner measures 5000 kilometers). And no, those little white dots ...
Read More »Images of Alleged iPhone 4G Revealed
In the classic blurry style of Apple product spy photos, a slick tipster claims that the above photos are images of the casing for the yet-to-be-announced iPhone 4G, expected to be announced sometime this summer. BGR points out some disconcerting facts about these supposed “spy shots”: An all aluminum, unibody enclosure would probably hinder the effectiveness of a Wi-Fi or ...
Read More »iPad Bacon Case
Bacon and Apple products go together like peas and carrots. Or lamb and tuna fish. They’re both the perfect byproducts of their respective categories. Pimp your iPad with pork with the custom made Bacon iPad case. It might not be actual bacon, but it’s realistic design is enough to make you wish you had a side of eggs to go ...
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