When I was a kid, growing up in San Francisco, California, I was a skate rat, which means I was really into skateboarding. Basically, my stick (skateboard) went everywhere with me until I was 16 and got a car. I was stunned when I saw this video because I have never seen girls getting this agro on sticks (old-school California Surfer-Dude lingo for skateboarding).
This is one of the most interesting, best write articles I have read in a long time. It was written by Mike Elgan, who is the Editor of Windows Magazine, and it is published on CultOfMac.com.
"The perfect out-of-box experience with the iPhone, the elegance of the whole experience of using an iPhone, re-set my expectations for how consumer electronics and computers should function. I started looking at the out-of-box experience of buying a Windows PC with a new contempt. The crapware. The stickers. The anti-virus software problem where the cure is worse than the disease. The flimsy hardware. It’s not so much that I despised Windows PCs, but that it felt like Microsoft and the PC makers despised them, like they all have no respect for their own platform."
Shelby Super Cars (SSC) just gave their new 1,350 horse power supercar a name and it is Tuatara. Shelby claims the American made rocket ship is the fastest production car made today, but has yet to release performance numbers. Sure is a cool looking car...
President Obama is pictured below with Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey and President Obama is typing and sending his tweet on a Macbook pro that has been enhanced with a Presidential Seal that covers the Glowing Apple Logo.
Photo Credit: Shawna Shepherd for CNN
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Here is the video of the Twitter Town Hall where President Obama sits down to talk about Twitter and tech.
Here is a video of President Obama giving a demo on Healthcare on his Macbook Pro
This is a photo of President Obama when he was running for the Presidency, and somebody took a photo of him sitting next to a MacBook Pro with Pacman sticker on it. If I recall correctly this Apple MacBook (with the Pacman sticker) belong to a campaign staffer.
President Barack Obama is pictured below on a recent trip to San Francisco. In this official White House photo taken by Pete Souza, President Obama is looking at the Golden Gate Bridge on April 20, 2011, from Chrissy Field, which is located in the San Francisco Presidio.
If you look closely, you notice President Obama is holding his 3G iPad II in his hand, which is really cool. It is great to finally have a President who "gets" technology ;-) In the future, I plan to write a detailed review of the technology that surrounds the President. Since I was born and raised, and still live in San Francisco, it is really cool to see this great photo, which has a tremendous amount of positive symbolism in it.
In my mind, this image of President Obama standing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge with an iPad will always be ultra iconic and profoundly symbolic of the fact that we are now definatley living in the digital age–finally!!!
So why am I so excited "that we are now definitely living in the digital age?" Because humanity has been trying to harness the power of computers for way too long. We have struggled with computers and technology that were full of unnecessary friction. The iPad, in my mind, symbolizes the future of learning. Remember when you were a kid and you had to carry a backpack that weighed almost as much as you because it was full of old heavy books? The iPad should finally do away with all that, and herald in a new age of friction-free learning.
These are truly amazing days we are living in!!!
Think Different In the 21st Century
Declaration Of Independence for the Digital Age
When I look at the image of President Obama standing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge with the 3G iPad in his hand, I could not help but think back to the now-retro Apple Think Different Posters from the late nineties, and since it is Independence Day, I thought I would make a color and black and white version to share with you ;-)
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them. But the one thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." –Apple
Update on October 3, 2011: Here is a video of President Obama and he mentioned Steve Jobs gave him his iPad 2 before it even came out.
I don't know why this seems so fascinating to me!?! It is good to see that the Pope is exploring the iPad. Methinks they should have put it on a BulletTrain MagicStand ;-) These are truly fascinating days we are living in.
I was just having a conversation with my bandmate, Billy yesterday, and I was saying how it is such an amazing time to be alive today, in the sense the world is quickly moving into the digital age–and this event with Pope Benedict is a shining example of this fact.
NASA took this photo of the Sun which was shot by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It shows the Sun spurting out a medium sized solar flare. Here are some fascinating facts regarding the sun:
• Located 92 Million miles from Earth
• Core temperature is approximately 27 Million degrees (Fahrenheit)
• Surface temperature is approximately 10,340 degrees (Fahrenheit)
• Sun is 4.5 Billion years old
• Traveling at the speed-of-light, it takes sunlight 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
It's amazing how all this new Apple technology, like Facetime is changing the world. In many ways, all this technology is fulfilling dreams and ideas that have been around for a long time.
In the same way an iPhone is light years ahead of Captain Kirk's communicator, Facetime is beyond the 1950s vision in the image above. (Yes that is a real illustration that you are looking at above, from the 1950s). I imagine reality is often better than science fiction.
Notice in the picture above, it shows the kids wearing raincoats with umbrellas, as they apparently are getting home from school, while the mother remains warm and dry in her kitchen as she prepares soup and sandwiches for her kids.
One of the obvious differences between the 1950s image and Facetime on the iMac, as seen above, and Facetime on the iPad, as seen below, is in the 1950s image, both women are holding corded microphones in their left hand. In other words, in the 1950s world, they artist did not foresee speakerphones.
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