The Apple Beat: Jonathan Ive gets Knighted in Buckingham Palace

Sir Jonathan Ive: His team's best work is yet to come

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Award winning industrial designer and Executive Vice President of Apple Design, Jonathan Ive received his knighthood recently in Buckingham Palace. Ive is credited for being Apple's resident design genius, the man whose string of successful designs like the iMac, iBook, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad and AppleTV are considered iconic products widely copied by Apple's competitors.

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Griffin and Crayola want you to design your own iPhone case

Griffin Technology and Crayola announced the availability of Crayola Case Creator, a protective case and app combo that lets users create one-of-a-kind cases for iPhone and iPod touch. Crayola Case Creator includes a clear protective hard shell case that protects users’ iOS devices while showcasing their artwork. Users can snap a photo or grab one from their photo album and turn it into a customized case. The free Case Creator app lets the imagination soar; children can add, resize and manipulate digital stickers to photos, or draw in Doodle mode with the app’s built-in crayons, paints and pens.

All artwork from the Crayola Case Creator app can be printed on included perforated inserts, sized and shaped to fit the clear case. And each creation can be saved to a gallery, e-mailed or shared to Facebook. Crayola Case Creator is now available for $29.99 from www.GriffinTechnology.com, and the Crayola Case Creator App is a free download from Apple’s App Store at www.itunes.apple.com. To view the entire lineup of Griffin and Crayola products visit www.griffintechnology.com/crayola.

Via Technologies outs $49.99 APC Android PC

Android's open nature means that it can be ported to various devices such as smartphones, tablets and even micro-PC's. Via Technologies has revealed a barebones PC running a modified version of Android 3.2 that is expected to cost arounf $50.00 when it comes out. The APC will be powered by a VIA 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM, 2GB flash memory for storage, and onboard graphics capable of 720p HD video. HDMI, VGA, 4 x USB, audio out / in, microSD and Ethernet. Possible uses are deployment in government and industrial environments as well as in education.

Source: VR Zone

Be a part of King Pong, a crowdsourced kickstarter app for the Apple TV

Many users believe that the AppleTV could be so much more than a streaming set-top box. It runs on Apple's iOS and has a pretty powerful A5 processor. App Different development studio wants to build a crowdsourced and kickstarter funded version of Pong that apparently allows iPhones and iPod Touches to server as controllers and the Apple TV as a console.

Users who back the project will pledge an amount of money and then have an opportunity to vote and decide on features and can have a direct connection to the development process. Interested backers can find out more here. 

Source: App Different