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iCup is an innovative concept specially designed for Apple that can heat up any drink inside the cup by connecting it with the user’s notebook, as well as any device that supports USB connection, via a USB cable  anywhere. The key goal of the project is to ease life with more manageable features that ensure uninterrupted working opportunity, doesn’t matter the user goes to the park, library or working in the office. The featured Apple logo of the cup is actually a heat indicator that shows the temperature of the inside content, blue for cool, orange for warm and pink for hot, while enhancing the aesthetics. Moreover, it incorporates a displaceable handle that offers convenient fit into any small area and the changeable upper portion allows easy washing. lack, red and green. The idea at the moment is still in concept stages. Functional and stylish, the Apple iCup comes with a Read more at: http://www.beautifullife.info/industrial-design/innovative-apple-icup-concept...

1941 Although the punched card was first used in 1801 to control textile looms, they were first used as an input medium for “computing machines” in 1941. Special typewriter-like devices were used to punch holes through sheets of think paper. These sheets could then be read (usually by optically based machines) by computers. They were the first input device to load programs into computers. Salustri used punched cards in 1980 in his first-year Introduction to Computing course at the University of Toronto. 1950 Ben Laposky created the first graphic images, an Oscilloscope, generated by an electronic (analog) machine. The image was produced by manipulating electronic beams and recording them onto high-speed film. 1951 The Whirlwind computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first computer with a video display of real time data. 1955 The light pen is introduced. 1960 Although known since the 1940's, ...