Apple-1 signed by The Woz for sale
Youtube Direktwoz, via The Verge
Demnächst zu versteigern im Auktionshaus Breker in Köln: Ein funktionierender, von Steve Wozniak signierter Apple-1. Die haben noch ganz viele andere tolle Sachen zu versteigern, klickt mal ein bisschen auf der Seite rum, tonnenweise vintage Gold.
A German auctioneer will put a working Apple-1 computer on the block later this month, and expects the handmade computer to fetch between $261,000 and $392,000 at Thursday’s exchange rate. The record price for an Apple-1 was $640,000, paid last year in an auction also run by Breker, of Cologne, Germany.
On May 25, Breker will try to sell a different Apple-1, one of only six in working condition, the auctioneer said. The Apple-1, a circuit board hand-built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was made in 1976, and sold at the time for $666.66. About 200 units were produced, but by an estimate last year by British auction house Sotheby’s, only 50 survive.
Rare working Apple-1 computer to hit auction block this month
Apple Store Afghanistan
Schönes Posting auf Quartz über den ersten Apple Store in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Mohammed Nasery, the store’s sales manager, told Quartz he sells the 16GB iPhone 5 for $700, about $50 more than its price in America. The merchandise comes from Dubai, where the 16GB iPhone 5 retails for 2599 dirhams (about $710). With discounts for buying in bulk, he estimates that margins vary from $10 to $50 across products. […]
“It’s very trendy to own an iPhone or an iPad. These young Afghans work around foreigners who have iPods and Macs and iPads, and they want them too,” Rahimi told students from USC Annenberg in an interview last year. “If you see a woman using an iPhone, even if she’s wearing the hijab you know she’s got money and that she wants people to notice her. You don’t really look twice if she’s on a Nokia, you know?”
The unofficial Apple store in Afghanistan
iSteve:
Funny Or Die haben ihr Steve Jobs-„Biopic“ online gestellt. Das Teil ist so halb witzig, wobei Jorge Garcia als Woz natürlich grandios gecastet ist. Wie so ziemlich alles von Funny Or Die eher unlustig und höchstens nett, es sei der Vollständigkeit halber aber erwähnt. (Wobei sie das Teil in drei Tagen geschrieben und in fünf gedreht haben – für so’n spontanes Projekt ist das dann doch okay.)
Steve Jobs-Manga is here!
Auf Yahoo Japan gibt’s ein 14seitiges Preview auf das Steve Jobs-Manga, über das ich vor ein paar Wochen gebloggt hatte. Das Teil ist natürlich auf Japanisch und liest sich von rechts nach links, ich hab’ das mal in die „richtige“ Reihenfolge gebracht, übersetzen müsst Ihr allerdings selber:
Japanese manga publishing house Kodansha released the first images of “Steve Jobs,” which were subsequently posted to Yahoo Japan’s online bookstore, as the title’s first chapter hit store shelves today in the April issue of the company’s Kiss magazine, reports blog Crunchyroll. Interestingly, Kiss is a monthly Josei manga serial, or a publication targeting the young adult to adult female demographic.
Reportedly recognized as the official adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography, the comic is being penned by noted manga artist and winner of the Manga Taishō and a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, Mari Yamazaki.
Briefly: First chapter of ‘official’ Jobs biographic manga goes on sale in Japan
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Steve Jobs Biography-Manga
Genderswapped Steve Jobs-Manga: Chocolate Apple
Steve Jobs, the Comic-Book
Early iPhone Prototype from 2005
Ein ehemaliger Apple-Mitarbeiter hat Ars Technica Bilder eines 2005er Inhouse-Prototypen des iPhones zugeschickt. Massive!
In-house version of the iPhone from early 2005. The images to Ars through a former Apple employee who worked on various Apple hardware projects in the early 2000s and was thus exposed to some of the earliest versions of the iPhone. (He declined to be named out of concern for retribution from Apple.)
As seen in the gallery above, this early prototype has a number of ports that we’re used to seeing more commonly on computers than on mobile devices, including USB ports, an Ethernet port, and even a serial port. Apple never intended for all of these to make it into the final product, of course—our source said that because this was a development prototype, ports like Ethernet and serial were included simply to make working on the device easier.
Versions of the Past
Schöne Retrotech-Variante dieser „Looking Into The Past“-Bilder, die seit ein paar Jahren in allen möglichen Variationen immer wieder durchs Netz gehen. Hier guckt sich Max Wohlleber olle Mac-Versionen an.
My Project “Versions Of The Past”, based on “looking into the past” pictures, leads the viewer through the digital past. Instead of black and white architecture and old street lamps, there are the monochromatic beginnings of the Mac OS.
Steve Jobs Biography-Manga
Mari Yamazaki, eine ziemlich bekannte Manga-Autorin aus Chicago, wird ‘ne Manga-Adaption von Steve Jobs Biographie schreiben, die im Kiss-Magazine in Japan veröffentlicht wird. Es gab vor rund einem Jahr schonmal einen Steve Jobs-Manga, der den Apple Gründer als Mädchen zeichnete. Mit ein bisschen Glück wird das hier genauso strange.
Mari Yamazaki, of Thermae Romae fame – will be tackling a manga edition of the biography of “that” entrepreneur – Steve Jobs, deceased founder of Apple.
The manga will be an adaptation of the Japanese edition of “Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography,” an official biography based on interviews with Jobs and published in 2011 with his blessing. The manga will begin serialisation in the May edition of Kodansha’s “Kiss” magazine, according to their official Twitter account.
Steve Jobs Manga Tackled by “That” Mangaka
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Genderswapped Steve Jobs-Manga: Chocolate Apple
Steve Jobs, the Comic-Book
Dieter Rams/Braun Design-Collection for sale
Falls jemand 350.000 Dollar übrig hat, kann man sich eine 1000-teilige Dieter Rams-Braun-Sammlung aus Heidelberg kaufen. Dieter Rams gilt als einer der wegweisendste Produkt-Designer überhaupt und er ist nachgewiesenermaßen der größte Einfluss auf Apples Designansatz.
The BRAUN design collection consists of approx. 1000 different pieces, mainly from the years between 1955 and 1985. It is probably one of the most complete private BRAUN design collections of this period.
The collection shows how Dieter Rams und the BRAUN Design Department, starting from 1955, managed to give technology a clear shape (form follows function), wrapping it in modern materials. The domestic appliances in particular reveal the impact of “BRAUN Design” on other designers and their product engineering. The collection is either suited for a private collector or a design or technical museum. The innovative aspect becomes evident especially by comparing it with the technical products of other manufacturers of the same time period. Dieter Rams can be regarded as one of the best and most influential designers of the 20th century.
Dieter Rams BRAUN Design Collection For Sale (via Hypebeast)
Early Apple-Phone Designs
Designboom hat ein paar Scans aus Hartmut Esslingers (Gründer von Frog Design) im Januar erscheinenden Buch Design Forward, unter anderem ein Konzept für das Macphone von 1984.
Papercraft Mac Xmas-Ornament
Hier gibt’s die MacMini-Weihnachtskugeln als PDF zum Selberbasteln. (Happy Mac Papercraft von Chris De Jabet via Testspiel)
Warning: Apple Maps could be life-threatening
Die australische Polizei hat eine offizielle Warnung vor Apple Maps rausgeben müssen, weil sich mehrere Leute in den Outbacks verirret hatten und beinahe verdurstet wären. Mit Steve Jobs wäre das nicht passiert:
Using Apple’s new maps system could be potentially life-threatening, police in Mildura, Australia, have warned, after a number of people trying to find the town of 30,000 people have become hopelessly lost in scorching temperatures.
One man was stranded for 24 hours last week in temperatures of up to 46 degrees centigrade, and at least three more have had to be rescued after following the directions given on Apple’s new maps, which locate Mildura far from its actual position.
Apple Maps could be life-threatening, Australian police warn
iTunes Russia has a Porno-Bug
Gelungener Start für iTunes in Russland, wo sie wegen Platzhalter-Links a la „xx.xx.xx“ Ads für Porn-Sites und Eskort-Services einblenden. „In Soviet Russia, Porn blocks Apple.“
iPhones.ru speculated it might relate to an issue with temporary xxx placeholder links (machine translation): […]
most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.
NSFW: Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with bug displaying escort/pornography sites
Oldest Polaroids of an Apple I
Paul Terrell, Besitzer eines der ersten Computerladens überhaupt, hat jüngst auf seiner Facebook-Seite die bislang ältesten Bilder von Apple Hardware überhaupt veröffentlicht. Ein paar Polaroids der allerersten Serie des Apple I-Rechners, die Steve Jobs und The Woz eigenhändig im Laden vorbeibrachten. Rest is History: Behold, Some of the First Apple Computer Photos Ever.
Ultrarealistic Steve Jobs at Madame Tussaud plays with ultrarealistic Steve Jobs-Actionfigure
Legendtoys aus Japan haben ihre ultrarealistische Steve Jobs-Actionfigur bei Madame Tussaud mit dem ultrarealistischen Wachs-Jobs spielen lassen. Ultrarealistic Meta-Steve. (via Gizmo)
Just want to give you an update on our Steve Jobs Anniversary Collectible Figure. When the new small iPad is named iPad mini, we decided to call ours “Steve mini”. Just take a look at the attached photos, and you will understand not only how REAL our “Steve mini” is but also how mini the size compare to the 1:1 scale Steve!
Glitchart-Software shopdropped in the Apple Store
Vimeo Direktglitch, via Rebelart
Corrupt.desktop: Tolle Arbeit von Benjamin Gaulon, der seine Uglitch-Software, mit der man Videos in Echtzeit glitchen kann, für Desktop-Wallpapers adaptiert hat. Die App kann man im Apple Store auf den Rechnern installieren und dort für ein bisschen Verwirrung sorgen. Shopdropping meets Glitchart – super! Von Gaulon kam vor einer Weile auch der Hacked CCTV public Broadcast, WMMNA hat ein Interview mit dem Mann. Sehr spannende Arbeiten, find’ ich sehr gut, das alles.
Corrupt.desktop glitch, in real time, the computer’s desktop image. So if you want to glitch your local Apple Store or Apple Retailer simply download the App (from the shop’s computer):
DOWNLOAD Corrupt.desktop [don't forget to film it!] →
Corrupt.online, Corrupt.video and Corrupt.desktop are using the same algorithm, which consists of a binary alteration of the original data. So technically Corrupt damages the data on a binary level, which result in unpredictable and beautiful results.
A project by Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Benjamin Gaulon, based on Corrupt a web based Glitch Art Software allowing its user to upload and share corrupted images on www.corrupt.recyclism.com.
