Thursday, October 6, 2011

High-tech Tokyo tribute to Steve Jobs uses apps as candles

Steve Jobs tribute

Following the death of former Apple Chairman Steve Jobs in California on Wednesday, fans in Tokyo are planning an unusual tribute at a candlelight vigil with a twist.

The sunset event -- due to take place today, Thursday, at 5:19 p.m. in front of the Apple Store in Ginza -- will be illuminated not by actual candles, but by the screens of iPhones, iPads and iPods running a virtual candle application.

Suitably geeky

Organizer Steve Nagata, a Tokyo-based Apple fan, told us how the idea came to him.

?It was just a whim to do it at the Apple Store at sunset, so I tweeted it out right away,? he explained.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/YdMwpKgftk4/high-tech-tokyo-tribute-steve-jobs-uses-apps-candles-076979

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