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We all know minimalism is currently king in the gadget design world. Fancy shapes, switches and knobs have been eschewed in favor of clean and simple designs that take a backseat to interface. So we asked Fake Steve Jobs, Bruce Sterling, Daniel Will-Harris and Yves Behar whether or not they thought there would be a counter-minimalist backlash.
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Are Gadgets Getting Plainer or Will Crazy Hardware Design Come Back? The Experts Speak
We all know minimalism is currently king in the gadget design world. Fancy shapes, switches and knobs have been eschewed in favor of clean and simple designs that take a backseat to interface. So we asked Fake Steve Jobs, Bruce Sterling, Daniel Will-Harris and Yves Behar whether or not they thought there would be a counter-minimalist backlash.
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3:00 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Adrian Covert
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Latest by n/a: Minimal physical interfaces simply blow in wrong places. They fit to some computer tasks, like web browsing, where your actions and attention are physically at the same point. Elsewhere, like in a car or TV remote, you will always appreciate more »
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Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) Moving to Newsweek
Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving Forbes after 10 years to fill the vacancy left by Steve Levy, who is going to Wired. Now there are five horsemen of the apocalypse. More »
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There are three important differences between this turtleneck and those his Steveness actually wears: First, it is slightly cheaper (we suspect). Second, it has the words "Hello my name is Fake Steve Jobs" printed in large, friendly letters on a fake name tag on its front.
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Real Fake Steve Jobs Mock Turtleneck, Made from Cotton, Not Harvested Chest Hair of Sacked Apple Engineers
There are three important differences between this turtleneck and those his Steveness actually wears: First, it is slightly cheaper (we suspect). Second, it has the words "Hello my name is Fake Steve Jobs" printed in large, friendly letters on a fake name tag on its front.
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FSJ Shutdown Drama Both Fake and Real
Fake Steve confirmed that his "talks with Apple" about shutdown were fake, in a roundabout way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve]
Fake Steve confirmed that his "talks with Apple" about shutdown were fake, in a roundabout way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve]
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Sadly, the iBoob Breast Implant MP3 Player Won't be Fast-Tracked by Fake Steve Jobs
Fake Steve Jobs, aka Forbes Editor Dan Lyons, may regard the tongue-in-cheek idea of a breast implant MP3 player as "shameful sexploitation"—but if it actually existed, it could be the next big thing for Apple. Associating breasts with your brand always means cash money. Plus, it beats the hell out of the iPod Pillow. [FSJ]
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Fake Steve Jobs on Android: "It's Not a Phone, It's an Alliance"
Fake Steve's lengthy stream of bile laying waste to the Google Phone isn't simply pure invective, it's actually a mostly well-reasoned indictment of coalitions that trumpets the values of "one vision, one man, one genius." It's worth reading in its entirety, but this is our favorite quote:The only companies that join consortia are the ones who are too stupid or shitty to make a great product on their own. It's like, Hey, we've got forty spazzo companies that can't fuck their way out of a paper bag; let's put them all together and maybe they'll magically become some kind of big bad powerhouse.More »
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Avnish Gautam has designed an amazing concept bookmark that lights up at night and covers the area you're reading. The MARK uses flexible OLED technology on a thin piece of plastic to illuminate the reading area to your preferred brightness. I know when I'm reading the Fake Steve Jobs book, the only thing that irritates me more than that frigtard Tom Bowditch is my dim and clunky book light that is never in the right place. This concept won the Red Dot Award for best design in 2007, so if OLED technology is up to speed expect it to be available sometime soon. Namaste Avnish, and hit the jump for a bonus picture of the MARK in daylight. [Yanko Design]
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I Honor the Place Where the MARK Bookmark and I Become One
Avnish Gautam has designed an amazing concept bookmark that lights up at night and covers the area you're reading. The MARK uses flexible OLED technology on a thin piece of plastic to illuminate the reading area to your preferred brightness. I know when I'm reading the Fake Steve Jobs book, the only thing that irritates me more than that frigtard Tom Bowditch is my dim and clunky book light that is never in the right place. This concept won the Red Dot Award for best design in 2007, so if OLED technology is up to speed expect it to be available sometime soon. Namaste Avnish, and hit the jump for a bonus picture of the MARK in daylight. [Yanko Design]
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fsj and woz
At Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, minutes from Apple campus, Fake Steve Jobs just finished a great book reading. And Woz introduced him and gifted him a black mock turtleneck, official uniform of The Steve. FSJ had a "Invented the Friggin' iPod" shirt for Woz, too. [Giz at FSJ Menlo Park Book Reading]
Vid: Woz Gifting the Black Apple Turtleneck to Fake Steve Jobs
At Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, minutes from Apple campus, Fake Steve Jobs just finished a great book reading. And Woz introduced him and gifted him a black mock turtleneck, official uniform of The Steve. FSJ had a "Invented the Friggin' iPod" shirt for Woz, too. [Giz at FSJ Menlo Park Book Reading]
10:42 AM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Brian Lam
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fsj visits silicon valley
Fake Steve Jobs, Live In the Valley
Dan Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs is doing a reading of his new book, Options, in the valley. We're at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park—the most important book reading, being so close to the mothership. I recognize an Apple employee in the crowd. Woz is here, and when I approached him to say hello, he moved aside, modestly, as if I was looking for a book behind him and he was in the way. No. "Woz," I said, " I'm a big fan of your work." He smiled, but I could tell he was already prepping to introduce Lyons, minutes away from being on stage. It's starting, and OMG...Woz just introduced FSJ and awarded him an official Apple black mock turtleneck...and Owen Thomas from Valleywag, AKA Mr. Bigglesworth is sitting front row, ready to taunt him. Fiction just slammed into reality and my mind just asploded. (Video of this here)UPDATED More »
10:25 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by Dylan: Really great post. I must say I like how you(Blam)and Chen, are doing more features like this. It really classes this place up. more »
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Reading Options by Fake Steve Jobs (Verdict: Fanboys Must Read)
Whether you tune in for Keynote liveblogs, or despise Applemodo, Options by Fake Steve Jobs will be an effortless read. The opening:
It is Tuesday afternoon. I am barefoot, sitting on a cushion in the lotus position, gazing at a circuit board. This board, no bigger than a playing card, has taken years to create. It is the heart of the of the iPhone, the most important object my engineers have ever assembled. And it is wrong.I do not know why, exactly. But it is wrong. By this i do not mean that the board does not function correctly. It functions perfectly. But it lacks beauty. My engineers argue that a circuit board need not be beautiful, since no one will ever see it.
"Yes," I say, "but I will know it is there. And I will know that it is not beautiful."
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6:36 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Brian Lam
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23 comments
Latest by yelraf: @WilCon:Actually, Shakespeare wrote about many real people, just not when they were alive. Still... more »
Another interview of Fake Steve Jobs AKA Dan Lyons AKA Fake Steve AKA Dan Lyons...over at [Wallstrip]
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Video: Fake Steve Jobs Professing Love for Linux
It's easy to forget, reading the addictive prose, that Fake Steve Jobs is a fictional character. And Dan Lyons a Forbes Editor with a entirely separate persona. That becomes clearer when you watch the author of the Freetard-hating FSJ profess his love for Linux in this video. Dan explains that there are tons of pro Linux articles in the wild but people always cite the few negative ones he's written. (Of the boxes he runs, he's got a Zombu, which I love but I think Mossberg dislikes.)[Linux.com via Slashdot]
7:10 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by europria: Why do have to turn this into a religion? more »
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The Best iPhone Wannabe Yet, from Sugarcat Cakes
This is an iPhone Cake.For the Steve that is Fake.
Did it take a long time to Make?
I dunno, I'm not very good in the kitchen. [PhotoBucket via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]
8:00 PM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By AddyDugdale
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The Hunt For Fake Steve Jobs
I'm not part of the hunt, but I can't stop thinking about who Fake Steve is, even if I don't really want to know. More »
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Fake Steve Jobs' Photo With a Fake ThinkPad Reserve
There's now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Fake Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why this matters, I don't know. But the thing is that some people believe is real and we are going to say it's fake: It's fake. There. Fake fake fake. Fake. Come on, it's fake Steve Jobs. As a source? More »
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Free Steve Jobs T-Shirts
Wait, wait, they're not free as in beer. I mean free as in liberation. More »
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