Mount your iPad or iPod touch IN-wall with iPort
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, design, iPad, iPod Touch
Do you love your portable Apple gear, but just wish it wasn’t so… portable? Well, iPort may just have the solution. The company specializes in mounting systems for both the iPod touch and iPad that will allow you to place your Apple device inside the walls of your home, ideal for home audio, home automation, or just getting people to say “Is that a #$@-ing iPAD in your wall?!?”
The iPort CM2000 for the iPad will run you $499.00, while iPod touch owners can get in on the fun with the $250 CM100. Both units will keep your iGadget fully charged, and ensure that your title as the ultimate Apple Fanboy in the neighborhood will remain intact. More pics after the jump. Read more
Well this is disappointing
When I first heard someone had made an Optimus Prime iPad Stand, naturally I got pretty excited. However, upon seeing what basically amounts to some guy bending the G1 Optimus Prime toy in half and laying an iPad on it, I have to say this doesn’t even warrant an “E” for Effort.
via Tweet Photo
Fans choose iPads over paper at Comic-Con
Above: “Fire” is the one on the left (Pic by Adam Hughes).
Can anything TRULY be considered “geeky” when you’re at Comic-Con? Well, I’m not sure, but if so, then this has to come close. You know how at comic conventions people will stand in line for hours waiting to have an original piece of comic art drawn for them by some prominent comic book artist? No? Well they do. Myself included. I can recall one such depressing outing at a Ramada Inn or some such hell hole back in 1990 or so, and paying Erik Larsen (who was Marvel at the time, just having taken over Spider-Man from McFarlane) to draw me a picture of Fire (from DC’s Fire and Ice) comics simply because she was SOOOO hot and he was the best artist who bothered to show up to that event. Hey, I was 12. Not that I wouldn’t do the same thing today. I think he basically drew Mary Jane Watson with green hair, which was fine with me, as she was also SOOOO hot.
Anyway, while paying to have someone draw you some original comic art (from a series they don’t even draw) is geeky enough, at least you can sell it one day right? (Humor me). Well, Jim Lee, one of the truly great comic artists of our time, posted the following tweet yesterday, which I think shows just how far things have come.
That’s right, people are now bringing their iPads to Comic conventions to have Jim draw various comic characters on them. And while it certainly will be harder for this fan to sell his original masterpiece in the future (and no doubt retire on the profits, as I planned to do with Erik Larsen’s drawing at the age of 12) it isn’t QUITE as odd as it might sound. As you may recall, Jim’s been posting various SketchBook Pro for iPad sketches to his Twitter for a few months now, which means this guy’s iPad is now going to increase in value ASTRONOMICALLY! Jim, if you’re reading this, can you please send me a picture of Fire for my iPad? She is SOOOO hot and I don’t have Erik Larsen’s contact info. Thanks.
Warning: NOT dishwasher/microwave safe
As if we needed further proof that the Japanese will go through any length to incorporate gadgets into their life, faithful Macenstein Jeff points us to one Sushi connoisseur who has created the ultimate high-tech Sushi plate.
Ok, actually it’s an iPad, but the dude’s actually eating REAL Sushi off it, complete with dipping sauce. Read more
LEGO my iPad
Sorry about that rather uninspired post title, I really couldn’t think of anything more clever at the moment… But let’s not let that take away anything from Flickr user jmenomeno’s amazing achievement of creating a scale model of an iPad using only LEGOs.
As you can see, the use of LEGOs keeps him from approaching “retina display”-like accuracy in the screen, but as someone who has spent more time than they should playing with LEGOs, I can tell you it ain’t as easy as it looks to recreate an app icon using only 4 LEGO nubs. The iMovie icon in particular is pretty kick ass.
Review: For the kids – 2 misses and a BIG HIT from School Zone
Any parent who has bought their kid an iPod or iPad, or even just let them borrow their iPhone to shut them up in a restaurant or car ride knows how addictive Apple’s devices can be for small children (or 30+ year olds, for that matter). But along with the blessed silence comes the unavoidable pangs of guilt in knowing your child has just spent three hours playing video games instead of talking to Grandma at dinner. Well, early on I found a way to avoid those guilty feelings and evil looks from Grandma by forcing my children to spend at least 5-10 minutes a day playing an educational game of some sort before they can play what they REALLY want. For the most part I’ve found this to work wonderfully, as the allure of the various games and videos I’ve loaded up on the iPad is stronger than my kids aversion to math.
But, what if the learning didn’t have to be so boring? What if there was a way to trick a child into actually WANTING to learn? Well, School Zone, makers of all those home study flash cards and workbooks you see in Super Markets and such has entered the iPod/iPad game arena in a big way as of late, and today we’ll review three of their iPad-only math apps, Addition and Subtraction Flash Action($4.99), Multiplication and Division Flash Action
($4.99), and Time, Money and Fractions On-Track
($9.99). Read more
This video makes me want to cry
Anyone who has every tried to draw something on the iPad will probably relate to my feeling of despair at watching this video. Apparently, as evidenced by New York artist David Kassan, it actually IS possible to make some truly inspiring art using just the $8 Brushes App and your finger, which means the reason my paintings come out so horrible is that I suck. Actually, I prefer to think he may have a more expensive finger than I do… Yes, I think I will blame it on not being able to afford the latest fingers…
[via the Telegraph]
“Giving Tree” iPad decal: For all you ungrateful bastards
For all you faux Apple fans who are constantly bitching for more, More, MORE! after each Apple keynote, you may want to pick up this iPad decal of Shel Silverstein’s “Giving Tree”, so you can let the world know you will never be truly content with anything Apple gives you.
And yes, I am one of those faux Apple fans.
[via OS X Daily]
It’s OK guys, you can laugh
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Humor, iPad, video
Sometimes as fanboys our first reaction to a video like the following is an immediate “rush to defend” mentality that has us attempting justify Apple’s design choices in creating the iPad, and sometimes we end up saying stupid things like “I wouldn’t even want one if it had a camera” or some other such nonsense. But honestly, funny is funny, and this is pretty good.
[via 9to5]
iPad-based Mantaray iTar is almost as weird as its inventor
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Hardware, WTF, design, iPad
Actually, it’s not even close. Inventor FRANZ KELLER is much weirder. But still, “VJFranzK” does seem to believe in his product, and will actually sell any aspiring synth musician one of his brand new Mantaray iTar’s (iPad not included) for somewhere around $300.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader PJ for the tip!
