MARTIN CONNELLY

MARTIN CONNELLY

  • iPads Are Much Nicer To Make Than iPhones

    Last September, Foxconn assembly line worker Li Qi (not his real name) moved from the iPad unit to iDPBG, where iPhones get put together. It was a temporary thing, just ahead of the Christmas rush, but he was excited. The move, reports the "First...

  • Getting Off on Looking Down

    You've seen the pictures.

  • The Pleasure of Looking Down on Earth

    For a short moment last November, the web was totally, complete obsessed with one unlikely thing: a series of curiously anonymous satellite images. Jesus Diaz, over at Gizmodo, broke the story last November, asking, ""Why Is China Building These...

  • Don't Do These Things in Space

    Everything the Great Beyond forbids. Like eating pizza. And banging.

  • What You Are Not Allowed to Do in Space

    Before he returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle for the last time, Andrew Feustel got something stuck in his eye. On earth, a couple tears would have solved the problem--unlike Chuck Norris, astronauts can apparently shed tears--but the thing is, in...

  • A Soft-Core Apple Retrospective

    There's something very innocent about this video. Maybe it's the bed sheet backdrop or the ragtime soundtrack, but it seems very wholesome. And it's really cool to watch the development of a product I use every day of the week. It is also...