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As the world waits for the iPad 3.

Behold The ‘Bashful’ the Apple tablet protoype from 1983 named after the shy dwarf in Snow White.

Concepts for this early pre-touch tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy disk drive and convenient handle for maximum portability. An attached stylus helped the user interact with the screen. One frog/Apple tablet concept also included an attached phone.

 

Apple’s Third-Gen iPad Rumoured To Feature ‘Never Before Seen Touch Technology’ (Apple Insider)

When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day.

Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose.

…Tuesday, Apple reported one of the most lucrative quarters of any corporation in history, with $13.06 billion in profits on $46.3 billion in sales. Its sales would have been even higher, executives said, if overseas factories had been able to produce more.

 

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, new York Times)

Thanks Shane O’Brien

What is this I don’t even of the day:

The spectacularly stupid Ashley McDowell was approached by two men in a McDonald’s parking lot where they offered to sell her an iPad for $300. She only had $180, but they gave it to her anyway. When she got home, she found out it was really just a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back.

But it’s sort of an amazing block of wood.

Woman Buys a Block of Wood with an Apple Logo Thinking It’s an iPad (Gawker)