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TikTok+LunaTik: Multi-Touch Watch→

TikTok+LunaTik: Multi-Touch Watch

Speaking of cool iPod Nano watch mods:

TikTok and LunaTik simply transform the iPod Nano into the world’s coolest multi-touch watches. The idea to use the Nano as a watch was an obvious one ever since the product was announced. But we wanted to create a collection that was well designed, engineered and manufactured from premium materials and that complemented the impeccable quality of Apple products. Not just clipped on a cheap strap as an afterthought.

Designed by MINIMAL, I suggest you watch the video with the explanation of the concept. This is serious design work.

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Slap The Nano→

Slap The Nano

We’ve wrapped a memory-metal wristband with soft silky silicone. Slap’s flexible, spring-steel band lies flat and rigid until you slap! it onto your arm. Snap Slap open, then snap Slap shut around your wrist. (Say that 10 times real fast.) The Slap band self-adjusts to a comfortable fit, exactly your size.

Griffin’s latest accessory for the iPod Nano looks like an interesting alternative to those Nano wristbands that have been floating around on eBay. Available at $24.99 here.

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The Glif, A Success So Far→

The Glif, A Success So Far

The Glif’s designers hoped to raise $10,000 to produce a few hundred iPhone 4 tripod adapters. Dan Provost and Thomas Gerhardt planned to do most of the fiddly final assembly, packaging, and mailing themselves. Instead, the project brought in $137,417 in crowdfunded contributions via Kickstarter over 30 days. The pair have been scrambling to keep up with success.

Whole post is worth a read. I can’t wait for my Glif to arrive. [via DF]

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Steve Ballmer On “Various Tablets”→

Steve Ballmer On “Various Tablets”

From Ars Technica’s interview with Steve Ballmer:

I won’t give you an answer, because it will all depend on what you want, and we’re going to have various things coming at various times coming over the next months and years, and some things, I think you will see things that you will fall [in love with]—I know I’m seeing things that I’ll fall in love with, and I know there will be more things that I desire.

Here’s the difference between Apple and Microsoft. Apple knows what you want, or at least leads you to think you want what they’re offering. It’s a rather simple strategy. Microsoft, or the current Microsoft in the Ballmer-era, is going to have “various things” coming at “various times”. The HP Slate demand provides a good example.

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Internet’s Apple Concepts→

Internet’s Apple Concepts

Whatever the answer to the question of what is Apple announcing tomorrow, I’m sure it lies somewhere in my archive of The Internet’s Apple Concepts. It’s a real folder, with hundreds of more-and-less goofy mockups gathered from various rumor sites, forums, and blogs. God bless their ambitious souls.

Where is the iTunes Machine, Apple?

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Create PDFs From Any iOS Device→

Create PDFs From Any iOS Device

I’ve decided to take it a step further for those who want to “print” but remain paperless: Print to a PDF. And not only print to a PDF, but then immediately have that PDF accessible to the same device.

Great tip over at TUAW. Not only you’ll be able to create PDFs inside apps that support AirPrint, you’ll end up having the document available in Dropbox with just one tap.

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Names You Need To Know In 2011: Scott Forstall→

Names You Need To Know In 2011: Scott Forstall

Keep an eye on Scott Forstall, the engineer who came to Apple from NeXT with Jobs, and who runs Apple’s iOS group, which now power more than 100 million iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

Forstall was one of the original architects of OS X, the operating system that saved the company earlier this decade.

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“Everyone Has A Scam”→

“Everyone Has A Scam”

Dave Winer on iPhone apps that silently grab your data:

It’s like spammers took over technology, like the pet food guys did in 1999. Everyone has a scam. This year the scam is to grab all the user’s data and resell it. It’s gotten to the point where it’s a risky proposition to try out a new iPhone product.

Perhaps a little bit tragic, but I get his point: how do you gain trust in a sea of 300,000 apps?

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The iPadification of OS X – Part II→

The iPadification of OS X – Part II

iOS and OS X may share some DNA, but irreconcilable differences remain. The two OSs serve two different usage models. As a result, Apple is likely to grow them separately instead of trying to bastardize iOS into a one-OS-fits-all. If we have doubts, we can go back and look at what happened with Windows shoehorned onto a Tablet PC.

So: Now that I’ve taken both sides—Yes, iOS will be the Apple OS; No, it won’t—what do I really believe? I think it’s a matter of numbers and layers of software silt.

Think about it: iOS 5 and Lion could come out together sometime next summer.

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