iHat revealed?

02/07/10 10:59

Steve Jobs is really rockin’ the hat thing lately. So much so, he’s thrown his considerable tech influence behind the idea of a web/email/multimedia center you wear on your head -- literally. From some really obscure French Mac site that gets one right occasionally, here’s an early prototype of the splash page for...the iHat. (Click the image for a larger view.)

(Okay okay, we know. Bear with us. One or two more should be enough to get this hat thing out of our system.)

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Dotcomic: Say hello to iHat

02/07/10 10:58

Music: "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" by Bob Dylan

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Beauties & The Beasts

02/06/10 21:58

Two rather surprising pieces of seemingly unrelated news broke in the past couple of weeks:

Apple, Microsoft discuss giving Bing top billing on iPhone
Kristin Bell and Dax Shepard engaged

Now that’s a pair of truly odd couples: Ballmer’s Google-Killer getting prime real estate on the iPhone? The wholesome beauty who played Sarah Marshall engaged to Frito from “Idiocracy?” This could be a brilliant celebrity branding opportunity:

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As the old Chinese proverb goes, we’re living in interesting times.

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Jobs Hat Pic II: Electric Boogaloo

02/06/10 21:27

Our source at the New York Times has shared another pic with us that goes a long way toward explaining the whole “Steve in a top hat” thing. Apparently, Jobs plugged the iPad in a literal song-and-dance number with Apple Hardware VP Bob Mansfield. It looked something like this:

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So maybe Steve isn’t as stressed out as first reports indicated. If any NYT’ers got video of the presentation, we’d love to see it.

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Jobs' "funny" NY hat revealed

02/06/10 20:40

Steve Jobs took the iPad road show to the Big Apple this week, where he met with various mucky-mucks at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to discuss bringing their content to the Device That Will Change Everything.

Normally, an item like that would be ho-hummed by the MacInquirer staff, but one of the key sources for the story provided a bizarre detail that quickly piqued our curiousity: New York magazine reports that Jobs met with the Times folks wearing what they describe as “a very funny hat -- a big top hat kind of thing.”

Okay -- NOW we’re interested.

We texted a request for more info to one of our minions embedded deep within the bowels of the Gray Lady (hmm...that didn’t sound quite right). The hat thing is apparently 100 percent accurate. Our source even provided a picture snapped stealthily with their iPhone showing Steve and Apple COO Tim Cook waiting to meet with the multimedia department of the Times:

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Looks like the pressure of launching the iPad is taking its toll. Either that, or Steve was also planning to demo a new close-up magic app for the Times folks. Stay tuned.

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