The Circle is Complete: A Newton Emulator for the iPhone
Einstein Newton emulator running on iPhone
This makes my green heart happy. Above is a video of the Einstein Newton emulator running on an iPhone 4. Newton OS lives! ... Well, sort of.
You'll notice that it's kind of slow for now, though the project's developers say speed will improve. Still...
The Apple Newton Becomes An Awesome iPhone Case Mod
Apple hardware hacker Charles Mangin has a respectable history smashing modern functionality into nostaglically held but utterly obsolete hardware. For example, Maguin’s amazing success inserting a Mac Mni into an old Disk ][ drive, or his even m...
iPad ad: Apple's homage to the Newton
A bit of nostalgia -- and some unfortunate associations -- in the new TV campaign For viewers with short memories, the deep-voiced narrator in the "What Is iPad?" ad that debuted Wednesday evening on American Idol might have sounded a bit too much like a Motorola (MOT) Droid commercial ("Should a phone be pretty? Should...
Macworld 2010: Telltale Games live in our booth
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Doonesbury covers the tablet release
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is of course no stranger to the constant expectations and travails of being an Apple fan -- he famously skewered the...
Flickr (err, Etsy) Find: Iron Mac
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Portables, Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook

Ok, so usually our Flickr Find feature is about photographic stuff, but this was so cool I had to share it anyway. Gizmodo (via...
Mac Tablet Now Shipping ;-)
OK.. the Axiotron Modbook, currently the world’s only Mac-based tablet computer, has been shipping from our docks since 2007. Apple has had the trademark of TabletMac transferred from Axiotron...
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TechCrunch has posted pictures of what they're calling an "unlaunched Apple tablet." In 1990, as the story goes, Apple was supposedly working on a pen-based touchscreen tablet called the Pen Mac that was actually...
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The Apple tablet that wasn’t
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Surfing the Web in the bathroom
The killer quote — or rather paraphrase — in Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance's properly skeptical story in Monday's New York Times about the new interest in tablet computing is the one attributed to Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs.
Although he killed the Newton — Apple's early entry in the field — when he returned to...


Apple Rehires Veteran Newton Developer