Awesome Apple

Apple fanboy Gary Katz built this teensy little recreation of an Apple Store inside a shoebox. A nice touch is the mini Genius Bar video screen and illuminated Apple logo made from two iPhones.

Looks like the latest in fashion accessories has made its way to our city streets – iPad pendants. The only thing better would if this guy were running a clock app instead of a music video on the display.

From the expertly agile fingers of Japanese anime artist Yoshitoshi ABe comes this very cool video of him scribbling sketches on the iPad, fingerpaint style, using the LiveSketch HD app.

Apple has revamped their unibody aluminum MacBook Pro line, adding zippy Core i5 and i7 processors in the 15-inch or 17-inch models. 8 to 9 hour battery life doesn’t hurt either.

Class up your machine with these handcrafted authentic wood skins from KARVT. Many varieties are available and are easily applied, and there’s also an artists’ series with more intricate pieces.

Trick out the exterior of your new iPad with a vinyl decal from Etsy artist suzieautomatic. The decals are easily applied and removed and you can make your selection from a variety of colors.

Now that you have that shiny new iPad, protect it in this distressed leather shoulder bag from Temple Bags. The case not only carries and cushions your iPad but converts into a handy viewing stand.

The Elements iPad app combines high-res 3D models with Theodore Gray’s humorous and simple prose to make learning about the elements a lot of fun. iPad skeptics, eat your heart out.

Got $200,000 to spend on a laptop? Look no further than Stuart Hughes’ spectacular MacBook Air Supreme Ice Edition, crafted from 2500 grams of platinum and 25.5 carats of flawless diamonds.

Get a preview of Bitolithic’s Comic Zeal V4, an iPad version of its iPhone app; for the uninitiated, it’s a comic reader that reads CBZ, ZIP, CBR, and RAR files natively (PDF with Sync).

It doesn’t have the cool vintage factor of the BookBook, but Nedrelow’s BOOK for iPad scores points with minimalists with a clean linen cover and 100% wool felt sleeve inner lining.

OS X goes old school with this Victorian iMac mod; available for 20″ and 24″ Core 2 Duo iMacs, it’s sold as a set that includes an oak cover, faux-marble base, and keyboard trim.

The bold black Santok SMC1000 iPhone Boombox features something unique among iPod docks – a sound-sensitive blue-green VFD visual equalizer display on the face of the dock.

If you don’t know your chin curtains from your copstash standards, learn to be a proper mustachio’d gent with BeardMe: the iPhone app will instantly man-up your photos with facial hair.

Need to stick coupons on your fridge? There’s an App Magnet for that: Jailbreak Toys’ 18 epoxy magnets come in an iPhone-shaped cardboard package with home screen apps.

It’s been a foregone conclusion for awhile, but it’s now official: Valve is bringing Steam and Source to Mac in April; Portal 2 will be Valve’s first simultaneous Mac/Windows release.