Apple Design Gadgets Hardware Vintage
As interest mounts in the upcoming launch of Apple’s highly anticipated yet still completely speculative iTablet/iSlate/iNextBigThing, the industrial designers at long-time Apple partner Frog Design, have opened their archives to present some proposals for an early Apple tablet (code-named Bashful).
Concepts for this early pre-touch tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy disk drive and convenient handle for maximum portability. An attached stylus helped the user interact with the screen. One Frog/Apple tablet concept also included an attached phone.
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Experimental Gadgets Hacking Hardware Modding
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Disk Gadgets Hardware High Performance NAS Storage
Trust me, you will feel the performance difference of a modern SSD in day to day computing. That’s far more than I can say for most of today’s CPU and memory upgrades. The transition from magnetic storage to solid state storage is nothing less than a breakthrough. It’s already transformative; I can only imagine how fast, cheap, and large these drives are going to be in a few years. If you’ve ever wondered what performance would be like if everything was in RAM all the time — well, we just got one step closer to that.
Apple Gadgets Hacking Hardware High Performance Macintosh Modding OS X PC Software
Become the proud owner of a high-end desktop “Mac” without paying the Apple Tax. A very cool project indeed.
Design Experimental Gadgets Hardware Modding
The Royal College of Art’s graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air. “The MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop ever. However, here in the UK, we still use the world’s biggest three-pin plug,” says Choi.
The idea produced a spin off, too. Choi created a multi-plug adaptor, a compact standard plug sized unit with space for three folded plugs to slot in, as well as one that charges USB devices.
This simply has to be commercially produced.
Apple Experimental Gadgets Hacking Macintosh Modding OS X
You might be interested in learning how to install OS X on netbooks from the likes of Dell, MSI or Lenova… then again, you might not!
Community Experimental Gadgets Hacking Hardware Modding
“It’s almost a Fight Club for nerds,” says Nick Bilton of his hacker space, NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, New York.
Inspired by Pixar’s 2008 cult movie Wall-E, a Russian modder has designed and built one of the most amazing computer mods I have ever seen. The Wall-E mod is stunning in its engineering and attention to detail. Beautifully machined and remarkably true to Pixar’s characterisation, the Wall-E mod project was completed in just 18 days!
What a shame the creator didn’t build this machine around a Mac mini!
A custom, self-contained wall-mounted PC - made from an old laptop. I could use one of these. I might even be inspired to hack one of these together myself.
