Month: March 2011

Sign language gets a very needed upgrade. From bunnies to zombies to… wait, where’s the troll sign?

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We just passed the one year anniversary of the iPad’s debut, which can only mean one thing — It’s already old news!

So, where’s the iPad 2? And what are the “insanely great” features Apple is packing into it?

We’ve been keeping our eyes open for all news and rumors that have popped up on the next iPad. We’ve put it all together in one package for you.

1)There will be no retina display
2)iPad2 will have front and rear facing cameras
3)The screen will be less reflective, so you can read it on the beach
4)iPad2 will be thinner and lighter
5)There’s a chance that it gets some weird new grill in the back
6)There’s a small chance it doesn’t have a home button
7)iPad will get an SD slot
8)iPad2 will “likely” get a more powerful A5 chip
9)Apple is reportedly adding NFC, so the iPad can be a digital wallet
10)iPad2 will be ready to rock on Verizon without a mifi
11)There’s a very slim chance that Apple makes the iPad 2 even cheaper

Who was the first captain of Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise? And—was the Enterprise even the ship’s name? You can find out all this and more by reading creator Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for his now-classic series.

A pop culture blog called Between the Pages has a link up to an online copy of Roddenberry’s initial outline for the series, dated March 11, 1964. The show itself premiered on Sept. 8, 1966, and in the intervening two years, a whole lot changed. For instance:

♦ Roddenberry’s original captain was not James Kirk or Christopher Pike, but Robert April;
♦ The ship was first called the U.S.S. Yorktown;
♦ The navigator was not a young Russian hotshot named Pavel Chekov, but a young South American hotshot named Jose Ortegas;
♦ Spock was the “first lieutenant” and described as having a reddish complexion and, of course, pointed ears, and was probably “half Martian.”