Inside Foxconn: Exclusive look at how an iPad is made
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Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. See highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities and connect to his full audio reports on your public radio station and at http://www.marketplace.org. Marketplace is produced and distributed by American Public Media.
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Video edited by Jeff Peters
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USB TYPEWRITER
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A New Lease on Type
Think back, do you remember the last time you used a typewriter? Do you recall the resonant click clack of the keys as you plugged in every letter, eventually forming words, sentences, paragraphs, even whole manuscripts? What about the delight you felt sliding the carriage back into place with a zip and ring whenever it was time to start a new line of copy? Even a tech fanatic can admit that there was something uniquely exciting about using a typewriter that you just can’t replicate typing into a smartphone, an iPad or a computer.
The thrill of using a typewriter may be passing from memory, but Jack Zylkin’s groundbreaking innovation brings this mechanical marvel out of retirement and offers a nod to its influence on the development of modern automation. For ardent admirers of the look, feel, and robust quality of an old-fashioned manual typewriter, the USB TypewriterTM allows you to use this once obsolete tool as a keyboard that plugs into any USB-capable device, such as your PC, Mac, or even your iPad! Plus, this new-and-improved gadget features all the advanced functions of a modern keyboard, such as ctrl, alt, esc, and arrow keys, so your typewriter is ready to keep up with your twenty-first century demands. Made in Philadelphia.
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OLO Social Game App
OLO has been updated! This is a simple and addictive social game of skill and strategy for iPad developed by London-based interactive design studio, Sennep.
ologame.com
New features:
- Fresh new design
- Online multi-player
- Four player
- Beautiful soundscape
- Retina ready
- Improved physics
- Enhanced gameplay
- OLO fingers
You can still play the original HTML5 OLO at ologame.com/web
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Paper for iPad
Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on the new iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and instantly share them across the web. Download “Paper by FiftyThree” from the App Store. #madewithpaper
Download:
itunes.apple.com/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812
More info:
fiftythree.com
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Habu
A new app curates mood-based music playlists
Description coolhunting
A mammoth music library should inspire pride, not anxiety. The problem is, how do you begin to sort through tens of thousands of tracks? Shuffle functions are too dumbed down, and there’s no time to create a custom playlist for every occasion.
Enter HABU, the mood-based music app that auto-generates playlists from your library based on how you feel, designed by Gravity Mobile leveraging music mapping from Gracenote. The emotional interface is all about intelligent entertainment, filtering information to enhance the user experience. “HABU was created for people who’d rather spend their time discovering new music than creating custom playlists,” says Jeff Benson, director of product management for Gravity Mobile. “With the average customer listening to 17 to 19 hours of music per week, we saw the need to design and develop a music app that could surface highly targeted playlists and music recommendations.”
HABU comes with an intuitive “mood map,” a circular visualizer that groups songs based in their position on two axes. Songs are plotted between “positive” and “dark” on the y-axis and “calm” and “energetic” on the x-axis based on their classification by Gracenote, which takes a range of variables into consideration when assigning them a specific emotional tag. The results get placed into 25 mood groups with 100 individual moods. That way, your gloomy, energized, yearning and upbeat personas are never without a constant stream of music. The intensity of a mood’s plot signifies the quantity of content for that mood, and users can share their maps with friends over Facebook.
The app uses Gracenote’s “sonic attribute technology” to create mood profiles for more than 30 million tracks. This allows HABU to generate tailored playlists at the touch of a finger, empowering the user to browse even the most prolific music collections. Reading user tastes, HABU finds similar tracks and lets you preview songs before downloading them. According to Benson, the app “is set up to interface with a customer’s own content as much as it is to discover new content via song recommendation and mood-based discovery.”
HABU is currently available in the Android Market for 99 cents; the iPad app is set to drop this Spring.
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Remix Your City - Fresh Push Play by HIFANA
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Armed with their Fresh Push Play iPhone App, HIFANA took to the streets of a once again bustling and vibrant Tokyo to sample the city sounds, followed by an electrifying live set at night performed with only iPhone and iPad. We invited a small group of fans to the exclusive Yakatabune boat party on Tokyo Bay and recorded their performance.
Learn more about the app: http://www.wktokyolab.com/fpp/
Directed by W+K Tokyo Lab
(Shane Lester, Shingo Ohno, Marek Okon)
Produced by W+K Tokyo Lab and Micro Film
Producers : Bruce Ikeda and Hideki Kuroda
Executive Producer (W+K Tokyo) : Blake Harrop
Executive Creative Director (W+K Tokyo) : Tota Hasegawa
Production support : GROUNDRIDDIM
Music and Sound Design : HIFANA
Editor and Colorist : Shane Lester
Title Design and Animation : Marek Okon
Director of Photography / Live : Naoki Noda
Director of Photography / Sampling : Hiroki Ando
Camera : Naoki Noda, Hiroki Ando, Susumu Washida, Tomomi Yazu, Takeshi Kogahara
Tokyo cityscape shots at 0:40 and 2:09 provided by SET JAPAN
Lighting : Yosuke Kai
Stage Lighting : LIGHTNING STORM
LED Lighting : Rhizomatiks
Live Sound Engineer : Sound Crew
Sound Mastering : Urban @ Potato Studio
Special guest appearances by Daito Manabe and AFRA
Special party guests : DJ SARASA a.k.a. Silverboombox, TreZure Empire, Raye 6, A$AMI ONE, Special K
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elevenplay ” dot. ” - iPad scene.
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Amazing - Dance performance “dot.” by elevenplay. the last scene of this performance: iPad scene. With programming by Daito Manabe.
Read more on Daito Manabe’s page - thie performance was recorded on Nov12th and13th 2011 at Laforet Harajuku
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Unstuck
Description coolhunting
New iPad app inspires in-the-moment personal problem solving to help you live better every day
There are times in life when the blank notebook page stays blank for far too long—even the most productive people occasionally get stuck. For moments like these there’s Unstuck, a recently released iPad app to help you work through the situation at hand. Acting as a step-by-step troubleshooter and catalyst for action, Unstuck walks the user through a series of questions that end in a diagnosis, complete with suggestions of thought-provoking tools to help find a solution, as shown in this cleverly animated intro video.
Released by SYPartners, the free Unstuck app marks the first endeavor of a new sister company that taps into their nearly 20 years of experience helping big-name companies, leaders and teams during times of transformation and offers these strategic lessons to the individual. Having helped great leaders lead over these two decades, SYPartners felt compelled to take up the journey to offer this accumulation of knowledge through “tools and methods” to help people people get themselves unstuck. As Keith Yamashita, Chairman at SYPartners, said in our recent conversation, “we’re driven by greatness by trying to help people, companies, teams be great.”
The user-friendly app features a clutter-free layout with eye-catching infographic-style illustrations and easy-to-read instructions designed to get your mental gears moving again. As you work through the series of fill-in-the-blank questions Unstuck uses an algorithm—combined with your answers—to offer a diagnosis of what’s likely to be going on. From here the user is given a series of tools to help themselves work through the situation. Check out this demo for a closer look.
Most importantly though, Unstuck delivers a different diagnosis each time to account for the user’s ever-evolving situation. This adjustment mimics real life in the sense that no situation is ever stagnant and the reasons behind it generally change over time. And thus Unstuck becomes a tool that can be used time and time again.
To make the app accessible to as many people as possible it’s been made available for free download through the App Store’s Lifestyle section. Once Unstucks’ subscriptions build more community-based aspects will be rolled out. Here individuals will be able to instantly connect with others who are in or previously were in the same place, to work as a team and share the good will to help one another get unstuck.
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Jot
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Adonit brings precision drawing to touch screens with an innovative stylus solution
The explosion of tablet computing has brought on just as many challenges as opportunities—one of them being how best to interface with touchscreens. Fingers do well enough for most tasks, but lack the precision that some users may want. Most stylus pens that try to address this issue fall a bit short either in functionality or style, many of them consisting of nothing more than a plastic stick with a foam tip that wears down over time. The Jot by Kickstarter darlings Adonit, on the other hand, answers both to aesthetic demands and functionality, separating itself from the pack in a variety of ways.
The Jot’s metal body is nicely balanced and feels more natural to hold than many smaller, less substantial styluses. This greatly increases the ease of use, as it replicates the way you’d feel holding onto a pencil or pen. Implementing a unique precision disc and ballpoint mechanism that keeps the Jot pressed firmly against the touchscreen of your tablet allows you to use the Jot at a variety of angles for significantly superior accuracy.
In this video, the Jot is put to the test by a photographer and a menswear designer who discover that using the natural-feeling tool makes their work easier to manage.
The Jot is available exclusively at Adonit’s website for $20 or $30 for the pro model.
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Fashion fantasies
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In 90 days, Kristian Schuller travels to the most beautiful places in the world, accompanied by young girls full of dreams. An unusual and exciting challenge for the fashion photographer that inspired an intensive fashion project.
The result: A road movie of fantastically staged photo shoots, an adventure that for everyone involved became mainly one thing in the end – a dream.
The 219-page ebook with a 6 min Making-Of Video is available on iTunes – via
Credits & copyright Kristian Schuller
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iVictrola
Description uncrate
We’ve seen our fair share of non-electronic sound amplifiers, but never one this… grand. The iVictrola ($985) merges an antique Magnavox phonograph horn with two pieces of American walnut along with your iPad to create what’s basically a giant megaphone for its normally not-that-loud speaker, filling your space with sound without using a drop of electricity. Available this November in limited numbers.
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The Drum Machine IPad-App
Design by Jonas Eriksson.
(Source: cargocollective.com, via phibious)
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PenGo Brushpen
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On surprising Comic-con discoveries, i had a great chat with the LA based, PenGo. Their latest tablet apps for painting/drawing and their new Brush Pen with three swappable tips (thick, thin, and brush!) were available to demo before launch, and they are more impressive than any others i’ve played with! As you can see in the pic above, they’ve managed to create Wacom-like pressure based sensitivity in their latest version of their app which hasn’t been released yet. It was such a tease to get to play with their app and brush without being able to buy it yet! The ability to draw and doodle was incredibly fun! Take a peek at their newest product the Brush Pen on the next page… and keep an eye on their site for the official product launch!
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Charming Monster Coloring Book iPhone and iPad
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Monster Coloring Book is like fingerpainting without the mess.
Everyone loves to break out the paints, markers and crayons for a hardcore coloring session but sometimes it’s just too much work or there is not enough space or…you get the idea. With Monster Coloring Book all the mess is locked away inside your device so clean up is simple and the coloring is just as fun.
There are over a hundred monsters to color, stickers to decorate them and patterns to make them unique. With so many monsters to color and so many different ways to do it, this app will chase boredom away for hours.
It’s finally here! Click below to download Monster Coloring Book from the App Store.
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New work from Olly Moss.
