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6:30 pm, February 11th, 2010, Lonnie Lazar
FastMac principal Michael Lowdermilk shows off the iV Light prototype iPhone cover/battery pack/flash attachment.
SAN FRANCISCO MACWORLD 2010 — It’s hard to miss the FastMac booth at Macworld. Just to the right of the Expo floor’s main entrance, the growing gadget and peripherals company has a prime space on the first aisle that was chock-a-block with visitors clogging the walkway to peer in at product demos and snap up the company’s awesome Apple-oriented t-shirts on the conference’s opening day Thursday.
We received an exclusive demo of a product FastMac is rightfully excited about — an updated version of its iV extended battery and portable charger that could soon mute some of the widespread criticism of the iPhone’s anemic battery life.
Many products in the extended battery class are clumsy and brickish. Despite their utility they often fall into disuse because they fundamentally alter the sleek and sexy feel of the so-called Jesus Phone. The new iV, which will apparently come in two flavors, the iV Light and an as-yet unnamed version, could make many power hungry iPhone users rethink the proposition.
With a new, super light-weight construction and supple rubber-like feel, the next-gen iVs will come with a full enclosure for 100% protection of the phone in a form factor that barely increases the weight and dimensions of the naked phone.
With a built-in LED light that calibrates with the iPhone’s camera, still and video captures in low-light situations should help elevate iPhone photography to new levels of quality and creativity.
The still-unnamed product, which should be available “soon,” according to FastMac principal Michael Lowdermilk, will incorporate a red LED which, in combination with a free remote control app, will turn an iPhone into a universal remote that can be used to change TV channels, stereo settings and a host of other useful and disruptive functions.
With no looking back, Macworld is clearly moving on in the post-Apple era and companies such as FastMac stand to gain increased attention with innovative products such as the iV — this is definitely a company to watch.
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Clothing, Hardware, Macworld, News | 5 Comments »
11:51 am, February 4th, 2010, Nicole Martinelli
@zazzle.co.uk
The iPad has already launched a thousand jokes, some of which you can wear some on your chest, or your privates, before you can even buy one in March.
See some examples after the jump:
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Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Apple Tablet, Clothing, Cult of Mac, News, Top stories, iPad | 1 Comment »
4:59 pm, January 31st, 2010, Erfon Elijah
If you’re an Apple fanboy (or girl) and your tee shirt repertoire doesn’t include as many Apple inspired tees as it should—you’re in luck—Coty over at cotygonzales.com has come to your rescue. With much sweat and toil, he’s put together a huge list of 101 T-Shirts for Apple Fanboys and the Mac Faithful that is sure to help you get you get back on the right track.
Fanboy protocol calls for 5-6 different Apple shirts to be worn publicly per week—better stock up.
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Posted by Erfon Elijah in Apple, Clothing, Humor, News | 3 Comments »
10:33 am, December 22nd, 2009, John Brownlee
The iPod is always a tricky thing to manipulate in this chapping, frostbiting weather. In the December wind, the hand freezes quickly in a contorted, blue-skinned claw around the iPod Classic; fingers pressed against the iPhone’s frigid touchscreen tend to break off like icicles at the tips.
For iPod manipulation in these hypothermic months, then, a solution, courtesy of alpine gear makers, The North Face. They’ve just introduced two new jackets — the Hustle Audio Jacket for guys, the Femphonic Audio Jacket for women — which builds an iPod remote right into the sleeves. You can change tracks, play, pause and wiggle the volume around without once exposing your fingers to the ice-fanged bite of the season.
North Face jackets tend to be expensive, so you can expect to pay $350 for both the Hustle and Femphonic audio jackets, but while that’s a couple hundred dollars more than what you can theoretically buy an off-brand winter coat for, it’s only a $50 premium over North Face’s usual coat prices.
Posted by John Brownlee in Clothing, News, Top stories, iPod | 2 Comments »
1:59 am, October 25th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
‘Tis the season for folks to bust out their best Home Ec skills (or their credit cards) in search of costumery to frighten and delight the young and old alike out trick or treating, or just looking for a few good laughs on Halloween.
Back in 2007, when the iPhone had been out just a few months, we saw a raft of costumes related to Apple’s newest technological wonderment. But so far in the succeeding years, we’ve not seen a whole lot of new takes on the idea and frankly, what we have seen has been pretty lame.
Look at the guy in the picture above. He had to be purposely dressing it down at a party full of Windows aficionados, right? But in the gallery that follows, we’ve had to reach back in time for things better than this. Apple fans seem to have fallen creatively short in recent years.
Is it possible nowadays to dress like a piece of technology known for its elegant design and not look like a complete (and uncomfortable) buffoon?
Let us know what you’ve found out there in comments below, or submit pics of your own awesome Apple-related costume designs and we’ll feature another gallery of the best down the road.
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Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Clothing, Humor, News, iPhone, iPod | 3 Comments »
7:36 am, October 22nd, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
The mystery object in Monday’s contest was a close-up of Apple Pro Speakers that CoM’s Lonnie Lazar snapped at a friend’s house where they’re part of a G4 iMac setup — for their size, he notes, “they actually sound great.”
Winner named after the jump.
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Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, News | 1 Comment »
4:35 am, October 15th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
The mystery object in Monday’s contest is an iBook G3, belonging to our own Giles Turnbull.
The winner, chosen randomly from the correct answers, is Scott Stead.
Scott gets his pick of the Apple-esque tees from might tees, pictured above.
Next Monday we’ll be posting another mystery photo, for another T-shirt.
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, News | 2 Comments »
8:12 am, October 12th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
The first in a series of five t-shirt giveaways, correctly name this mystery Apple item and you could win a T-shirt.
Not just any T-shirt: choose from the Apple-inspired designs at might tees, which include the I Love Lisa we wrote about, a retro-style logo and Steve Jobs in typeface.
The tees are made with water-based eco inks screen printed on high quality tri-blend shirts (part organic cotton, part recycled rayon and polyester) and a $28-$36 value.
We’ll chose a winner at random from correct answers — please name object and model in the comments.
Contest ends midnight, October 14.
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac | 164 Comments »
9:19 am, October 2nd, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Who says I'm a flop?
Although the $9,995 price tag was one of the reasons the computer Lisa didn’t sell well, showing some love for Lisa in T-shirt form will only set you back $32.
Often considered one of Apple’s flops, the ill-starred Lisa was the first computer on the consumer market with a graphical user interface (GUI) but despite this innovation the high cost, lack of software programs and general sluggishness led it to the computer graveyard in 1983 after two years and 100,000 units sold.
Bruce Tognazzini, the interface guru at Apple once said, “The Lisa was a great machine. We just couldn’t sell any.”
Show that you agree with this T-shirt, available on Etsy.
Via iPhone Savior
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, Quickies, Vintage Tech | 4 Comments »
3:30 pm, September 25th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
The beloved Dogcow Moof! t-shirt from RedLightRunner is now a rarity.
It’s always a little dicey doing a “Best of” Apple t-shirts post because the really, truly best Apple t-shirts have always been the limited edition, short-run t-shirts that Apple prints up for employees and other associates, the ones Guy Kawasaki wrote about in his 1990 book, “The Macintosh Way.” In it he draws a flow chart depicting Apple’s process for making great products and the first step is: Order t-shirt.
In fact, there’s a whole book on the subject, by Gordon Thygeson – “Apple T-Shirts: A Yearbook of History at Apple Computer” – with 1000s of pictures of such shirts from over the years.
However, for those of us not lucky enough to get our bods into one of these rare and memorable pieces of Apple attire, there are a number of outlets in the US and the UK (and probably elsewhere as well) where you can pick up some cool threads and show the world where your allegiances lie.
Hit the jump for a gallery of 10 we think are worth checking out.
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Posted by Lonnie Lazar in 25 Years of Mac, Advertising, Apple, Clothing, Macintosh | 10 Comments »
9:42 am, September 22nd, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Your kids won’t remember the day you made them wear the “cheese” body suit instead of the one with the cute felt Mac on it, but if you work it out right, a happy face photo in the Mac version and a stroppy pout in the cheese may hang around long enough to traumatize them.
Imagine the fun if you have twins: you could spark lifelong arguments about which one you have favored since infancy.
Handmade felt designs on 100% cotton, available in black, white or red.
$36 for the pair on Etsy.
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, Humor, Quickies | 1 Comment »
5:29 am, September 17th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Freelance journalist and Mac fanatic Domenico Panacea wanted to get his hands on this Philips Lumalive t-shirt with an integrated LED screen.
“Wanted” is perhaps an understatement: Panacea forked over €900 euros (about $1,300) to spend a month with the scintillant shirt.
Normally used for publicity stunts — like this one where pretty young women attract attention for an ice cream in Istanbul — the shirts have 128MB of memory that can blink out 10 minutes of text, images and animations at 40 fps. They glow for four hours at a time before needing a recharge.
(More pics and video after the jump.)
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Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac | 5 Comments »
11:02 am, September 14th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Welcome the iSteam Mac, the latest Apple device to get the Leonardo da Vinci treatment from the guys at Exploded.
Available as a poster or a tee, this inside look at Mac 128K by artist Kevin Tong follows the iSteam Phone and exploded iPhone, plus the exploded Mac (this in a non-Da Vinci code version.)
The American Apparel t-shirt costs $20, the poster $15.
Can the exploded iPod be far behind?
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac | 3 Comments »
7:50 pm, August 10th, 2009, Traci Dauphin
Ibint's Messenger Loopbag is a good, sturdy laptop tote for NYC.
Because we’re all geeks these days and need bags for our laptops, the market for fashionable computer bags has mercifully grown. Gone are the days when the only laptop bag you could buy was black and rectangular.
A particularly stylish entry onto the fashion laptote market is Ibint, a company that sells a range of good-looking laptop bags called Loopbag. The Loopbags have distinctive zippers that loop around the front and back of the bags — hence the name.
We’ve been testing a pair of Loopbags in New York for the last couple of weeks, and they’ve held up exceptionally well, especially because this summer has been exceptionally wet.
Hit the jump for the rest of the review.
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Posted by Traci Dauphin in Clothing, Macbook, Reviews, Top stories | 4 Comments »
4:21 pm, July 20th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Apple symbols, saved from the dumpster.
A CoM reader wrote in after our story on the Apple symbols pried from dead computers and transformed into jewelry to say that he’s been doing the same for years.
The reader, who goes by the handle univac, set up a gallery of what he calls “liberated logos” on Flickr –Â there’s something wonderful about seeing the evolution of them side by side.
His collection includes a ton of iconic rainbow Apple symbols (including one possibly from a 512 “Fat Mac,”) plus larger ones from laserwriters, G3s and Quadras.
More pics after the jump.
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Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, Top stories | 8 Comments »
3:12 pm, July 13th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Macs continue to live on, long after they’re on the scrap heap –Â these vintage Apple logo earrings or pin are made by a woman whose family runs an electronic scrap business.
She plucked little plastic Apple logos (like the ones decorating the front of the 128K, though other Apple products had the rainbow logo, too) from devices bound for the dump.
This isn’t the first time we’ve run across ways to adorn yourself with Macs — including silver power button cuff links or earrings or, similarly pricey rings and pendants from keyboards — the ones above go for a modest price of $13.99 (earrings) or $8.99 (pin).
What’s the verdict: geek chic or unwearable e-waste?
Via Etsy
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac, Top stories | 10 Comments »
8:25 am, June 10th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Original T-Shirt designed by Sebastiaan de With
Sebastiaan de With, a Dutch artist from Groningen, The Netherlands goes by the username Icon Designer on Flickr. He’s in San Francisco this week for WWDC and has promised to do a give away on his blog while he’s in town for Apple’s hit developer’s conference.
Definitely a distinctive entry in the ever-popular ‘exploded’ graphic design style.
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11:52 am, June 4th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Mac and PC prepare to duke it out on this T-shirt touting a 15-round “Hasta la Vista” title fight, presented by Don Gates and King Jobs.
Like all big showdowns, the competitors face off with fightin’ words that will have people staring at your chest and chuckling, in a good way.
Designed by Reece Ward it costs $24 at Red Bubble.
Via Geeky Gadgets
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Clothing, Cult of Mac | 4 Comments »
11:59 pm, May 24th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Our friend Roger, the t-shirt designer from Brighton, U.K., has another Mac-related shirt for us to check out.
It’s a classic skull design, made with the keys from a pair of Apple keyboards. The white keys come from an extended white Mac keyboard; the black keys were taken from the original iMac (the one with the half sized F keys). Says Roger:
“I could say it depicts the obsolescence that all computer equipment faces, but really it’s just skulls make great tees! What Mac geek wouldn’t like to see a design featuring Mac keys, and only only closer inspection can you find the classic Apple command key.”
Hit the jump for a bigger picture of the skull — and the elusive command key.
You can find Roger’s skull tee here, available in a range of colors.
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Clothing, News, Vintage Tech | 2 Comments »
4:35 pm, May 19th, 2009, Leander Kahney
The designer of the brilliant “PhotoShoplifter” t-shirt (see the pic after the jump) is back with a new design honoring old Macs.
Roger of RubyRed T-shirt Designs has created the “Sad Chimes Rest Home” shirt featuring three vintage machines that are loved but no longer used.
“Old Macs deserve more than ending up on the scrapheap after a life of creation and innovation,” Roger says. “Be sympathetic to your old Apple in its time of need, send it to the Sad Chimes Rest Home for retired and redundant Macs. A place where the Mac Classic and the G3 iMac can reminisce about operating system developments.”
More of Roger’s work after the jump.
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Clothing, Humor, News, Vintage Tech | 4 Comments »
