Signs and portents

Nook.ie anyone?

Here’s a humorous article from Steven Heller looking at American bookseller Barnes & Noble’s new product. A reaction to the Kindle (I mentioned his article about that, here), the Nook is visually more appealing to my eye than the cumbersone Kindle. It does, however seem to owe a royalty to Jonathan Ive at Apple.

Speaking from this side of the pond, Nook is an aphorism for something else entirely. But that’s enough about that. In case you are wondering, nook.ie is available.

Er, the domain name I mean, that wasn’t an offer.

From Wired, speculation on Apple’s next big thing, the tablet.

Is Apple set to do to publishing what it did to music? And yes, that’s a rare sighting of Steve Jobs in a suit, back in the day. The days when I first used a Mac that looked just like those pictured. Makes me feel, well, historic.

Branding exercise for the Prius by Good Magazine.

via psfk