Boing Boing » ipod http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 14:08:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 iPod Body Mod: magnetic wrist piercings become mount for Apple iPod Nano http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/ipod-body-mod-magnetic-wrist.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/ipod-body-mod-magnetic-wrist.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 00:45:42 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=161104

REUTERS/Keith Bedford

Tattoo artist Dave Hurban displays an iPod Nano which he has attached to his wrists through magnetic piercings in his wrist in New York, May 14, 2012. Reuters has an interview with him here.

"I just invented the strapless watch," he said on Monday of his Apple Inc device, set to display a clock.

Hurban cheerfully recounted how he mapped out the four corners of the iPod on his arm and then inserted four titanium studs into his skin. Once the incisions healed, he popped on his iPod, which is held in place magnetically.

"It's way simpler than you think it is," said Hurban.

Below, Durban's HOWTO video for the project he calls "iDermal," explaining how he pulled it off. Not that he can just, you know, pull them off now.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/ipod-body-mod-magnetic-wrist.html/feed 50 Steve Jobs bio out early for downloads; "60 Minutes" devotes entire episode to book http://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-bio-out-early-as-ki.html http://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-bio-out-early-as-ki.html#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:21:14 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=125566

As every blog and news site everywhere has already reported (including Boing Boing), the definitive biography of the late Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, is out today.

Actually, it's out today in paper, but was released yesterday for download via Amazon and iTunes. I'm willing to bet it breaks some sort of download sales record.

Last night's edition of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes was devoted entirely, 100%, to stories on Jobs and his products.

As Mike Godwin noted on Twitter, Steve Kroft asks during the segment how Jobs, "who dropped LSD and marijuana," goes off to India and returns to become a businessman. LOL @ "dropping marijuana." The show sure does know their demo. At least they didn't say he smoked acid.

Snarking aside, the 60 Minutes pieces are worth watching. Here's part 1, here's part 2, and here's 3 (!), on iPad apps for autism. In other news this week, Obama says we're bringing troops home from Iraq, and Qaddafi's dead.

Related: Dan Lyons, former Fake Steve Jobs, on the backlash.]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-bio-out-early-as-ki.html/feed 15