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No Comment: Just what do you think of this decal, Dave?

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2010)

This MacBook decal is great, and it looks like it would work well on your iPad, too -- though you might not get that glowing effect that makes it so awesome. We've seen quite a few fun decals similar to this before, including some specifically for the iPad, some for the iPhone, and even some ...

Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Newspad finally arrives, nine years late

by Steven Sande (Jan 28th, 2010)

One of my all-time favorite movies is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. At several points during the film, we see ill-fated astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole using a flat, iPad-like device. In one of the posters for the movie, astronauts at a base on the Moon are seen using this device ...

Want a 1st generation iPod? They're still available from the Apple Store

by Joachim Bean (Aug 20th, 2009)

In 2001, the same year the Game Boy Advance was introduced, Apple brought the iPod to us (and not to universal enthusiasm, either). When I was doing some Google searching last night on Apple model numbers, I found something quite strange. Who knew that there were first-generation iPods still ...

Nothing can go wrong.... Hal 9000 is on the iPhone

by Mel Martin (Feb 11th, 2009)

You knew it had to happen. The charming but murderous computer from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey has made to the iPhone/iPod touch. Hal 9000 [App Store link] awaits you for US $0.99. It's basically a still of HAL, with lots of his famous sayings from both 2001 and the 1984 sequel, 2010. The ...