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The Circle is Complete: A Newton Emulator for the iPhone

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZcMlz4Unk Like a time travel scenario where you meet your own grandfather as a child, enthusiasts working with the Einstein Newton Emulator project have ported the Prodigal PDA to the iPhone.  The current implementation is only available as source code and runs a bit slow, but...

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...

Apple Newton to be reborn as iPhone case

Isn't it nice when siblings get along? Here's an idea for using a dead, hollowed-out Newton Message Pad as an Phone case. Case hacker Charles Mangin has had success with other projects, like the Mac Plus G4, the Mac mini stuffed into an Apple Disk II f...

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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We're cleaning out the video files from the chaos of Macworld last week, and while we've already shared with you an interview that we did with Dan Connors of Telltale Games (who just recently announced...

Doonesbury covers the tablet release

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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

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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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The Apple tablet that wasn’t

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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...

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

In an interesting (and exciting) development, the New York Times reports Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, one of the developers of the original Apple Newton personal digital assistant. Tchao left Apple fifteen years ago. Most recently, Mr Tchao has been General manager of Nike’s Techlab, finding innovative ways to get your sneakers talking to your iPod...