Scott's Walkman Trail

BBC have a great article where they took away a 13yr old boy’s iPod, and gave him a classic Sony Walkman instead.

Born in 1996 (the year i graduated… i feel so old…) this was pretty much the first time young Scott Campbell had needed to deal with old analogue technology, particularly the staple of my youth, the humble home audio tape, producing my favourite remark from the article:

“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”

kids today…

Clicky to the full article

Apple introduces the MacBook Wheel, a revolutionary new laptop that replaces the keyboard with a giant scroll wheel! Keyboards are sooo 2008!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

(I love theonion.com)

Dave Veloz built this wonderful steampunk mod of a Mac Mini as a wedding present for his soon to be wife. It really is a stunning piece of work! Lot’s more pics over at steampunkworkshop.com

This is pretty awesome. Bit on the pricey side (as all new Apple stuff is), but that’ll come down over time. I can see a point in 12 to 18 months when this is the standard Macbook. As a piece of design innovation though, it’s uber-cool!

Tech Specs: 

• Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
• Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
• Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
• Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)
• 13.3″ Screen.
• 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
• 2Gb Memory.
• 80Gb 4200-rpm PATA hard drive or 64Gb solid-state drive.
• Oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology.
• 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR built in.
• No optical drive, but if you want to use one you can wirelessly use or “borrow” the optical drive of a Mac or PC in the vicinity (or plug one in obviously).

One photo can’t really do it justice.  Hop over to apple.com/macbookair for the full details.

Want to keep the lil ‘uns away from your iPhone? Why not knit them their own!… Or get your mum to knit one like this guy did.

More info here

My iPod died…

I’m going to try the Apple Store at lunchtime, see if they confirm it, but the prognosis isn’t looking good…

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Semper Fi iPod, you served well…. (Daryl)