Daily Archives: 13 November, 2010

Lenovo’s LePad tablet due in 2011

It’s no secret Lenovo has its eye on the tablet market, and now China’s biggest PC manufacturer appears ready to challenge Apple’s iPad in the U.S. The company’s LePad, an Android-based slate announced in July, will arrive stateside next year.

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Artist shoots his MacBook for new exhibition

'Breathe' (2008 MacBook Air destroyed with 9mm Heckler & Koch Handgun) Apple fanboys, look away now.

Artist Michael Tompert, a former graphic designer at Apple, is putting on an exhibition showing Apple products which he has destroyed in various ways – burned with blowtorches, smashed with sledgehammers, chopped up with handsaws or shot with a handgun.

The results are then photographed in the typically fetishistic style of Tompert’s former employer, all close-up and against a plain white background.

Presumably the image editing was done elsewhere, what with all his own gear being smashed up all over the studio and all. Read More »