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46 Seconds on Life from Steve Jobs

The world as Steve Jobs saw it:

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Here’s To The Crazy Ones “Steve Jobs”

Well here’s a reminder don’t be afraid to see things differently.

The now iconic quote debuted in a 1997 television commercial for Apple Computer. The text was said to have been partially written by then Apple CEO Steve Jobs (along with Rob Siltanen and Ken Segall). He embodied the characteristics in this quote arguably better than anyone in history. Today it lives on as a mantra for artists, inventors, entrepreneurs and innovators around the world.

” I simply loved this fantastic letterpress poster.”

The Nest: Self Learning Futuristic Thermostat

I just have one word WOW, a product which can save our nature, called “The Nest” a Futuristic self learning thermostat product by Tony Fadell, Apple’s former Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, oversaw iPod and iPhone development between 2001 and 2009.

“It’s a thermostat for the iPhone generation,” says Fadell. Aside from its striking looks and color-coded, digital display, the Nest thermostat boasts impressive features. For example, a motion sensor notices if there are people in a room and adjusts its temperature accordingly. It also learns your habits and preferences, so there’s no programming to be done.

“The interface is crisp and clear, similar to iPhone apps, and the hardware sports a retro-future look. Guests will play with it.”

RIP Steve Jobs

“[Y]ou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs

Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world Steve Jobs. We will miss your magic.

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Video: Fiat Evo iPhone App Campaign

A very cool mobile app campaign from Fiat. The most interesting part of this is that by relying on existing signage to activate the campaign, this mobile app treats road signs like QR Codes. By capturing the signs with the app, users get information on various features of the Evo, the app is taking advantage of a huge potential set of calls to action that are already ubiquitous.

With a small budget Fiat managed to create their largest ever outdoor campaign with over 1,000,000 traffic signs being spotted on week one.

Video: The new Financial Times web app for iPad, iPhone

The new Financial Times have launched a new, faster, more complete web app for the iPad and iPhone which is available via your browser rather than from an app store.!

The new app has a number of benefits like:
– Web browser access – No download needed
– Automatic enhancements – No need to visit an app store for the latest version
– Reading offline – The latest edition is automatically stored for offline access
– Speed – Improved performance on most connections
– Greater range of content – Including video on iPhone

It employs a new Web technology standard called HTML5, which allows programmers to create a single application that can run on a variety of devices, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s android phones system and the BlackBerry PlayBook, although the new app does not work on some versions of the devices.

 

“Al Gore’s Our Choice” A next-generation digital book by Mike Matas

Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming. Our Choice melds the vice president’s narrative with photography, interactive graphics, animations, and more than an hour of engrossing documentary footage. A new, groundbreaking multi-touch interface allows you to experience that content seamlessly. Pick up and explore anything you see in the book; zoom out to the visual table of contents and quickly browse though the chapters; reach in and explore data-rich interactive graphics.

It’s available in Apple itune store.

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Mint launches “on the decade” iPad application

 

Mint launches “on the decade” an ipad application, its probably the first newspaper first ipad application, quite cool and interesting. Wish to see more initiatives from other news agency to go on digital publishing.

Watch the above video to “hear what the editor of India’s second largest daily business newspaper thinks about the future of digital publishing, the launch of the paper’s first iPad app, and the impact of tablets on India’s newspaper industry.”

You can download the application here

vivek