Apple’s Alien Minions

By: Matthew Battles
December 29, 2009

With speculation on the appearance of Apple’s tablet computer rampant, a minor detail, which has entirely escaped the notice of breathless commentators, may prove the most important of all. Among Apple’s patent filings pursuant to the forthcoming device is clear evidence that the engineering effort is staffed by aliens.

This specification drawing, culled from an obscure source, gives unmistakable evidence of the otherworldly origins of Steve Jobs’ fabulous gizmos:

I mean, the hands —my god look at the hands!

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

Apple’s Alien Minions

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