Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Famous designer says Apple will reveal 'revolutionary' product within 8 months

Famous designer says Apple will reveal 'revolutionary' product within 8 months
By Neil Hughes

Acclaimed French designer Phillippe Starck revealed in a recent interview that he has been working with Apple on a "revolutionary" new product that will be revealed within the next 8 months.
Starck revealed the information in a radio interview with France Info, as discovered by HardMac. No further details were given on what the product may be.
"Indeed, there is a big project together which will be out in eight months," Starck said, according to a translation. He cited Apple's "religious cult of secrecy" for declining to divulge any further information, though he did say the new project is "quite revolutionary."
Starck also revealed that he met regularly with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before he passed away last October. The designer said he would see Jobs around once a month in his Palo Alto home for seven years, and he now meets with Jobs's widow, Laurene Powell, when he is in California.
The design work of Starck is wide reaching, ranging from products like toothbrushes and motorcycles to furnishings, building interiors, and even windmills.
There's no indication that Starck has worked with Apple in any capacity before, though he did design premium iPhone/iPod speakers and headphones for the company Parrot in 2008. The Zikmu Parrot speakers by Starck currently sell for around $1,600, while the ZIK Parrot headphones are advertised as "coming in 2012."
Starck
The comments from Starck will undoubtedly fuel speculation about a rumored Apple television set that the company is believed to be working on. Early this year, one report claimed that Apple's own design chief, Jony Ive, has a 50-inch Apple television housed in his secure design studio.
As for Starck's "revolutionary" comment, it could be related to comments made by Jobs himself to biographer Walter Isaacson. In interviews for Isaacson's book released last year, Jobs said he had "cracked" the secret to building an integrated, easy-to-use television set that will have "the simplest user interface you imagine."
Of course, Starck's apparent work with Apple could also be related to something entirely different, such as a forthcoming redesigned iPhone. The company is expected to launch a new iPhone late this year, featuring a completely redesigned exterior for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

Asus to Ship Quad-core Transformer Pad 300 Tablet on April 22
By Agam Shah, IDG News
Asus' latest Transformer Pad 300 will start shipping in the U.S. on April 22, the company said Friday. The tablet is being pitched as a laptop replacement with 4G LTE network capabilities.
The new Transformer Pad will have a 10.1-inch screen and use a quad-core Tegra 3 processor from Nvidia. It will run Google's latest Android 4.0 operating system, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich.
An Asus spokeswoman said prices will be revealed April 22. However, retailer BJs is taking preorders for a $399 model with 32GB of storage and 1GB of memory.
Asus has wiped out the "Eee" moniker from its tablets, a brand that debuted in 2007 with its pioneering Eee PC 700 netbook. The new tablet succeeds the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which was the first tablet to ship with a quad-core processor. The new tablet brings some of the same features to users but at a lower starting price, Asus said in an email.
The tablet offers 10 hours of battery life, which can be extended to 15 hours with an additional battery in an optional keyboard dock. The dock makes the tablet a fully functional laptop, and Android-specific buttons provide quick access to certain functions.
The tablet display shows images at a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. The mobile connectivity options with the tablet include Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G LTE.
The tablet has a 1.2-megapixel front camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera. It also has a micro-HDMI port so the tablet can be connected to TVs, and one microSD card reader for expanded storage.
The Transformer Pad 300 was introduced at the Mobile World Congress show in late February. The company also introduced the Transformer Pad Infinity tablet at the show, which had similar specifications to the Pad 300, but a higher-resolution, 1920-by-1200-pixel, 10.1-inch display.
A growing number of Android 4.0 devices are becoming available. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 will be available on April 22, with a 10.1-inch model shipping on May 13. Many Android 4.0 tablets under $250 are also available.

Despite past setbacks, Raspberry Pi computers coming to customers next week
By Jeff Hughes
Forget about your Raspberry Pi disappointment, both the budget-computer's distributors have confirmed the first batch and will begin shipping the Raspberry Pi out to customers next week.
Good news for you empty-handed Raspberry Pi fans, shipments will soon commence next week.
The budget mini-computer, designed to spark programming interest in schoolchildren, is reaching the hearts of many developers and hobbyists. Braben's credit card-sized computer comes in 2 versions: one priced at $25, and one at $35. Excitement about the product caused the websites of two distributors – Premier Farnell and RS Components – to crash due to a fervor of 700 orders per second.
While there has been a number of disheartening shipment setbacks attributed to sourcing Raspberry Pi supplies, but that's all changing. UK distributor RS Components has announced that it has received it's first Raspberry Pi shipment and is working on orders. Apparently RS is working down the waiting line, sending out invitations for customers to place Raspberry Pi orders in the order of when they registered interest on the RS website. Orders are restricted to one board per customer, and only until all customers are served will multiple quantities be allowed.
"We are delighted to have the first batch of fully compliant products in our warehouse," said Glenn Jarrett, Head of Electronics Marketing at RS. "There has been a great deal of anticipation for Raspberry Pi since its launch at the end of February, and it is important that we provide a delivery guarantee to customers when they place their order."
According to the BBC, those that were first to order should get their machine by April 20. Premier Farnell also said on Friday that element14 has announced the first batch of Raspberry Pi's had arrived, and that it would be sending the computers out to UK-based customers this week, with more to be shipped out in the following week. In line with Braben's premise, Farnell's Eben Upton will be handing out computers from the first batch to schoolchildren in Leeds.

Uranus auroras captured by Hubble Space Telescope
By Jill Langlois
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the first images of auroras on ice giant Uranus.
For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped photos of auroras lighting up Uranus's icy atmosphere, reported National Geographic. Two short-lived, Earth-sized storms - also known as Northern Lights - were captured by astronomers as they lit up on the day side of the gas giant in November 2011.
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is known for being a bit of an oddball. According to Wired, at some unknown point in its past, the planet was knocked on its side. Its "North Pole" is now the area most planets' equators call home.
The newly found auroras appear to be tiny white dots in Hubble photos. While Earth's auroras appear as giant green curtains of light and can last hours, the new auroras seen on Uranus are fairly small and didn't last more than a few minutes.
"The last time we had any definite signals of auroral activity on Uranus was when NASA's Voyager 2 probe swung by in 1986," said study leader Laurent Lamy, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon, France, to National Geographic. "But this is the first time we can actually see these emissions light up with an Earth-based telescope."
Conditions on Uranus were very different when Voyager flew past the planet in 1986. According to Wired, its magnetic north pole was facing straight into the solar wind at the time, creating longer lasting auroras that were mainly located on the night side, similar to observations of Earth's Northern Lights.
Now that Uranus has entered its spring equinox season, its axis is perpendicular to the sun's flow of charged particles, which astronomers think is responsible for the strange auroras captured by Hubble.

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