{"id":21073,"date":"2010-06-14T20:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-do-you-like-your-ipad-chocolate-covered-or-in-typewriter-disguise-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:40:43","slug":"how-do-you-like-your-ipad-chocolate-covered-or-in-typewriter-disguise-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-do-you-like-your-ipad-chocolate-covered-or-in-typewriter-disguise-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Like Your iPad: Chocolate-Covered, or in Typewriter Disguise? | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ab739_ipad.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10299\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ab739_ipad.gif\" alt=\"ipad\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>What pairs well with chocolate? A pricey tablet computer, of course.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aheadrobot.com\/2010\/06\/12\/ipad-unchocolateboxing\/\">Stefan Magdalinski<\/a> debated what to get for his sweetheart for her June birthday. Eventually, he decided on a candy Apple: He ordered his wife a chocolate-covered iPad.<\/p><p>As told on Magdalinski&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aheadrobot.com\/2010\/06\/12\/ipad-unchocolateboxing\/\">blog<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/06\/14\/chocolate-covered-ipad\/\">reported<\/a> by <em>Mashable<\/em>, what makes this feat more impressive is that he orchestrated the gift&rsquo;s shipment from the U.K. to South Africa, calling two friends at a British chocolatier with an unusual question:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;Could you freeze an iPad in chocolate carbonite, and have it survive?&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><span><\/span>The proof is in the chocolate. A gift that involved both an interesting customs discussion and a very confused wife ended in sweet success. Magdalinski: &ldquo;no iPads were harmed in this production.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ab739_chocolate-ipad.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10300\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ab739_chocolate-ipad.gif\" alt=\"chocolate-ipad\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Counting your calories? Other iPad combinations might better fit your tastes. As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/06\/09\/excellent-mac-classic-converted-to-ipad-stand\/\">described<\/a> on the blog CrunchGear, nostalgic Apple-users have gutted older computers to give them a new, touchable face.<\/p><p>And for those that want to hearken back a bit further, the blog Gizmodo recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5562649\/the-usb-typewriter-makes-typing-on-ipad-even-slower?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29\">described<\/a> another iPad vision almost as romantic as chocolates, an iPad typewriter.<\/p><p>Luckily, none of these combinations required <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/04\/06\/will-the-ipad-blend-watch-and-find-out\/\">blending<\/a>.<\/p><p>Related content:<br>Discoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Permanent Link: Will The iPad Blend? Watch and Find Out.\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/04\/06\/will-the-ipad-blend-watch-and-find-out\/\">Will The iPad Blend? Watch and Find Out.<\/a><br>Discoblog:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/04\/05\/ipad-arrives%E2%80%94some-worship-it-some-critique-it-hp-tries-to-kill-it\/\"> iPad Arrives&mdash;Some Worship It, Some Critique It, HP Tries to Kill It<\/a><br>Discoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Permanent Link: Hey Baby, Wanna Come Over and Try My New iPad?\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/05\/06\/hey-baby-wanna-come-over-and-try-my-new-ipad\/\">Hey Baby, Wanna Come Over and Try My New iPad?<\/a><\/p><p><em>Images: Ahead Robot \/ <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aheadrobot.com\/2010\/06\/12\/ipad-unchocolateboxing\/\">Stefan Magdalinski<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pu3RJuCxsGB6-_00nQcE_DGN61Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ab739_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pu3RJuCxsGB6-_00nQcE_DGN61Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b39b0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b39b0_c9we1v_mMT4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What pairs well with chocolate? A pricey tablet computer, of course.Stefan Magdalinski debated what to get for his sweetheart for her June birthday. Eventually, he decided on a candy Apple: He ordered his wife a chocolate-covered iPad.As told on Magdalinski&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-do-you-like-your-ipad-chocolate-covered-or-in-typewriter-disguise-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}