Down in the bottom left corner, near the orange wire to the right, in the second bubble to the upper left - squint your eyes and turn to the right, then put your fingers in front of your hand. Do you see it? That's it. That is the sperm of Gizmodo.

Monty

Difficult to believe from THAT comes Skynet, the Borg, Steve Jobs, and the porn browser.

EVEs_Mako

I wish I could walk around bein' all: "You know what makes that work? Me! I did that."

Dreadfish

I met Jack a few years ago as well as worked at a Fab named after him. I couldn't imagine a world without semiconductors.

duffyanneal killed WALL-E

Happy bday!

Joseph

Yeah but whats the FPS in Crysys?

Serolf Divad

Magic Crystals Power! GO! (Insert extremely Japanese anime theme music here)

bpapa9013

Can you play Doom on it?

webwbr

I think I saw this at burning man or was this the original steam punk?

wanago

thanks Jack. without you i would have a crapier job now.... or better?

Who let the Trolls out?

@bpapa9013: Because they needed this to invent those badass chip fabs we use now. So he probably grew all that silicon in some test tubes.

Which is close enough to a reef.

Log1c

How do I connect it to iTunes?

BigPanda

So how does that connect to my motherboard?

Tweak

Why does it look like its been sitting on a reef for the last 50 years?

bpapa9013

OK, So I plug this into my MBP and launch iTunes, the how do I start the Copy Paste functionality installer? Will this mount as a device in iTunes or something?

Please Help, I'm stuck.

TIA!!

Faslane66

Yeah nice and all... but will it work on a mac?

foebea

I just pulled something out of the back of my fridge that looked like that....

Shub-Niggurath

some guy just thought "oh lemme slap some shit together and it will conduct electricity and compute things" and then he invents the microchip? genius

FinalValgas

@foebea:

Try it! I'm sure as hell not going to. lol

I'll try it on my PC though ;-)

Faslane66

Next time they should remove the pube before snapping the picture.

vmspionage

So what did the circuit do?

FYI
silly game reference = disemvoweled
silly apple product reference = OK

Stop discrimination of disemvowelation!

Navin R Johnson

all hail the first cylon \\\o///

pharago

@Navin R Johnson: I agree with this. You're discriminating which retarded meme you cut. Cut them all.

Cultivar

It's a bit of a bummer that the comments here focus more on jokes and less on the object's implications for humanity--let alone the fact that without it, we may not be here commenting in the first place.

I would venture to guess that zero of us on this board of sorts was of a coherent age when this thing was demonstrated, so the inherent difference in context makes sense to me.

Still, we owe a lot to this guy and his circuit.

Anyway, sorry to sound so righteous. Feel free to flame away.

Gilbert

@foebea: No. Apple computers don't run on conventional electronics. They utilize magic and a single drop of blood from Steve Jobs.

Mio

@Mio: That explains his health problems.. Macs have been selling quite well.

shockwaver

@bpapa9013: The win in the center of a douchebag sandwich.

mferrari

@nitromic: I think this photo pretty much proves we didn't or we would have started microchip research with a quad-core Xeon or something.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

From this it's quite easy to see how we got into a miniaturisation race, it's not like they could have made it any bigger.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

Whatever, we deegineered the microchip from alien technology! Give credit where credit is due.

nitromic

I'm curious as to the scale of the ic in the picture. Is it the size of a shoebox or the size of a quarter?

thefastest