Imagine the pressure on the guy that set up this system fro tomorrow’s (alleged) iTV event. If this stalls it will be the headline. (Via Apple)
(via Instapaper)
Sometimes you just need to listen to Tom Sawyer loudly to make it through a long work day.
(Via TorrentFreak)
I can’t wait to write some killer data visualization apps on the iTV.
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
I started college in 2002, which meant all of my friends were suddenly living in small dorm rooms where they and their computers slept. Myself and most of my friends with Macs were creeped out by this light at roughly the same point. We started breathing in rhythm with the light as we fell asleep. It was hypnotic, organic.
Which, apparently, was exactly their intent.
The light wasn’t bad. But being confronted with the half-asleep notion that there was something organic in your room when you knew it was inanimate was unsettling. At the end of the first quarter, most of us had taped over the light to obscure the glow.
Why isn’t anyone speculating about iAds in iTV? I’d watch an iAd for a TV show.
Whoyouknow, Mclusky.
I like io9 because they ask questions like this:
Is Internet TV finally catching on? Are people actually hooking up Boxee and ditching Comcast en masse?
Whoops, false alarm. People just don’t have money and no one’s buying new houses. (Via Business Insider)
