Anya Hindmarch is the handbag designer who made women club each other to proclaim to the world: “I’m not a plastic bag.”
She was tapped by UK department store Selfridges to fill their famous holiday hampers with goods.
Her credit-crunch defying “Ultimate Girl’s Hamper” (price tag: £1,000 or a staggering $1,475), includes some of the usual fare: Ruinart Champagne, 40 bottles of nail polish, Marshmallow Fluff and a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” DVD.
You’ll notice from the image that just above the Fluff, however, is an iPod nano.
How did electronics creep into a holiday gift hamper?
Says Hindmarch: “I have always been fascinated by hampers, their history and Britishness. But am always disappointed by yet another basket whose contents I don’t actually want to keep.”
We hear you. The nail polish and Fluff will always run out, but the iPod will remain.
Written by Nicole Martinelli | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Shortly after denying Mazo access to its API, Amazon has released an iPhone application which directly ties into the Amazon.com store. Amazon Mobile provides an interface to quickly search Amazon, read reviews, compare prices, and even purchase items. Members can access their wish lists, carts, and a myriad of other incredibly useful items right from the app.
However, the most interesting feature is "Amazon Remembers". The feature allows you to take a photo of a product and save it to your personal Amazon.com account. Additionally, Amazon will attempt to match up the photo to products in their database. If a match is found, you're notified by email and the app is updated with a link to the product.
Written by Michael Johnston | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
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With Mac clone maker Psystar potentially on the legal ropes, Apple may now be looking for the South Florida company’s unknown backers identified Tuesday as only “John Does 1 through 10.”
In an amended complaint against Psystar, Apple refers to the new defendants as “various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights” and the Cupertino, Calif. 
company’s user licensing.
Miami-based Psystar’s emergence and its retainer of antitrust experts Carr & Ferrell has “always been a bit puzzling,” wrote CNET’s Tom Krazit Wednesday.
Psystar failed to make its monopoly charges against Apple stick, with federal judge William Alsup in November rejecting the claim.
Tuesday, Apple added piracy charges, claiming Psystar violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by offering a disc permitting the OS X operating software be installed on non Macs.
Written by Ed Sutherland | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel.
We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Ginepro, an industrial designer, graphic artist and photographer.
His iTable is made from Corian (frequently the stuff of kitchen and bathroom counter tops), the “screen” is glass and the necessary add-on to make the original design furniture-worthy, the legs, are steel.
Ginepro built three iTables for an installation at Milan’s design week this year, then sold one to the hotel and another to an art gallery.
“I like to take inspiration from everyday objects and as Mac user, those designs are the ones I see all the time,” Ginepro told Cult of Mac. “The idea was to take an object that didn’t start out as furniture and turn it in into something useful.”
The iTable is about 47 inches long by 29 inches wide (original measurements: 120 x 75 centimeters) and about 13 inches high.
It comes in classic white, black or sunny yellow. Each table is a one-of-a kind, made-to-order piece of art (read: workaround to wrangling a licensing agreement with you-know-who for mass production). More info on availability, cost etc. through his website.
Written by Nicole Martinelli | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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There is an apparent shortage of iPods in the wake of surprisingly strong demand for Apple’s portable music players on Black Friday.
At Amazon.com, the wait time for 8GB second-generation iPod touchs has stretched to three to five weeks, up from 11 days. The same for the 16GB version, according to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu.
During the Black Friday weekend, Amazon was offering iPods at an 11 percent discount.
The shortages were also found at Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and others.
“Frankly, we find these sell-outs on iPods surprising given how difficult the macroeconomic environment is, putting a crimp on consumer spending,” Wu wrote in a Wednesday note to investors.
Wu believes Apple will sell 21 million iPods in December, a 90 percent jump from Cupertino’s September quarter.
Earlier this week, analysts described Apple iPods as Black Friday favorites. Deutsche Bank said “iPod demand remains healthy” with retailers reporting the 16GB touch and nano popular with consumers.
Written by Ed Sutherland | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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