File this one under the weird category. Publisher Hearst is promoting its first iPad-only magazine titled Cosmo for Guys (no jokes, please) with the “iPad Head Girl”. The campaign employs a modern take on the sandwich man, thanks to creative concept by viral marketing agency Thinkmodo which calls for a custom-designed head gear, fabricated by MTV Movie Awards makers Clockwork Apple. The Next Web explains that the head gear is comprised of four iPads“shaped into a cube projecting video playback of each side of her head”.
The stunt is an attempted analogy of a guy “getting inside a girl’s head”. And how is the girl able to tell her way with the head gear on? She’s wearing a pair of video glasses inside the head gear which display live video feed captured bya camera hidden inside her purse. Gotta love how New Yorkers give her a strange look as she strolls down a park. A couple of screenies of the mag right below…
Evernote Peek is the first Smart Cover learning app. Connect Peek to your Evernote account and brush up on a language, make flashcards for a quiz or test your trivia knowledge, all by simply peeking under the Smart Cover.
Clever use of the Smart Cover.
Stacked: Food Well Built
The restaurant, created by the same executives who made BJ’s Restaurants a national chain, offers a menu of all-American comfort foods: burgers, salads, pizzas and sausages.
The 6,300 square-foot restaurant is located at the Del Amo Fashion Center: 3525 West Carson Street in Torrance. It opens at noon Tuesday, May 31. Other units are planned at Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego and Los Cerritos Center in Cerritos.
More at stacked.com
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Real Racing 2 HD for iPad - $9.99
Real Racing 2 HD’s update takes advantage of fullscreen 1080p output and enables users to plug-in their HDMI adapter to play the game on a bigger screen. As MacStories pointed out, “The new feature doesn’t use scaling, it’s full HD being mirrored to the TV. It runs at 30 frames per second”. The game contains a 10-hour career mode, 30 cars, 15 racing environments and while you’re playing (on the TV) the iPad can be used as a real-time map of your car’s location. The update is coming soon but the app is available for $9.99 in Apple’s app store.
There should really be an option to use a secondary iOS device as a controller, but the 1080p output looks stunning.
42 Days
Dear Apple,
As both a customer and a loyal supporter/well-wisher of your company, this makes me very, very sad. It’s 2011. You’ve been building iPhones and iPads for a long time now. There is absolutely no reason you should be sold out of iPad 2 nation-wide after two days. I don’t care how overwhelming the demand is. There should never be a 40+ day shipping timeline for released products. You need to fix this immediately. I’m not a shareholder, but if I were I would be furious. Millions (billions?) of dollars are on the table. Demand is good, but demand without sales is very bad.
Love,
Garrett
…as if every single person on the project isn’t busting their ass to ship as many as they can. Meanwhile people complain when their iPad’s screen adhesive isn’t finished drying yet, or that it doesn’t include a hi-res cameras but complain over rising prices.
If any other company were pushing out products like Apple does, on the scale that Apple does, with the quality that Apple does…with higher efficiency, then complain all you want. But there’s not. Unless you have a feasible solution or idea, let Apple take care of the problem. They’re much more aware of the situation than anyone else.
What’s with people feeling entitled to everything these days?
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