Lytro, an upcoming camera that can snap photos instantly without even having to focus, reportedly intrigued Steve Jobs so much that he met with the camera’s creator to discuss working with Apple.
That’s according to Adam …
Lytro, an upcoming camera that can snap photos instantly without even having to focus, reportedly intrigued Steve Jobs so much that he met with the camera’s creator to discuss working with Apple.
That’s according to Adam …
World, you can finally breathe easy: We’ve found our next Steve Jobs. In a series of tweets posted earlier this week, Kanye West announced that he was launching a company to “make products and experiences that people want and can …
Well, this isn’t much of a surprise. According to The Telegraph, Apple is threatening to sue In Icons, the Chinese company responsible for the world’s most eerily realistic Steve Jobs action figure.
The 12-inch doll is slated …
How long should you wait to cash in on the likeness of a universally beloved and recently deceased innovator? Just a few months, apparently, because Chinese company In Icons is looking to ship a disturbingly ultra-realistic …
Following his death in October, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs received a host of tributes and plaudits, but come February, he’s going to get one more: a posthumous Grammy Award.
Jobs will receive a Trustee Award for his …
First it was a school in Bulgaria naming a school after him. Now, a man in Hungary is commissioning a seven-foot bronze statue of Steve Jobs to be erected in a Budapest technology park.
Sculptor Erno Toth is basing his work on …
In the movie version of Steve Jobs’ life, the role of Apple’s late CEO and co-founder may go to George Clooney. Or Noah Wyle. Or neither, because frankly this rumor seems a bit fishy.
The report comes from NOW Magazine, which …
The beatification of Steve Jobs continues. It appears that students in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second biggest city, might soon be attending class at a school named for the late Apple founder.
The technical secondary school is currently named for another guy who has a reputation for being “revolutionary”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The …
Apple’s iTunes may have ushered in a digital revolution to the music industry, making music more affordable and—in tandem with the iPod and other MP3 players—more of a feature in people’s day-to-day lives, but according to Pete Townshend, iTunes is a “digital vampire” that’s bleeding musicians by taking a commission for each download …
Steve Jobs’ biological sister, Mona Simpson, has a piece in the New York Times called A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs. It’s the same eulogy she delivered on October 16 at Jobs’ memorial service held at Stanford.
In it, she describes their initial meeting in 1985—they went on a long walk where Jobs explained he worked in computers. …
When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know, is that the iPad almost had an Intel chip under the hood.
And here’s the kicker: The guy …
Walter Isaacson’s aptly-titled Steve Jobs book is available today and, at 650+ pages, it’s a doozy. If you’re looking to hone in on a particular section of the biography, here’s a roundup of recent articles from around the web that highlight various themes presented throughout the book:
On design: