Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design partner Marc Newson have collaborated frequently on designs for charity in the past. Sometimes they hit the mark, like with this one-of-a-kind; other times, it’s a swing and a miss, like this that would look right at home in the Their latest collaboration, a ring made entirely from a single diamond, is over-the-top luxury and I love it.

The ring will be up for a (RED) charity auction at Design Miami on December 5th, and estimates that the ring will go for $150,000 to $250,000. Ive, who loves minimalism so much that his idea of a perfect magazine cover, has once again applied that concept to a diamond ring, opting to replace the metal band altogether with the diamond itself. It’ll be a lab-grown diamond created by Diamond Foundry, the Leonardo DiCaprio-backed company which is certified carbon neutral. The Sotheby’s description explains, “The diamond block will be faceted with several thousand facets, some of which are as small as several hundred micrometers. The interior ring will be cylindrically cut out for the desired smoothness using a micrometer thick water jet inside which a laser beam is cast.” It’ll be specially crafted for whoever wins the auction, and made to fit up to a US size 5. A ring size of 5 is teeny-tiny (that’s about a 15.6mm diameter), so hopefully, the winner will have small fingers, or be an actual baby.

Here’s the thing: it is beautiful. I would be thrilled if this ring was hidden in my dessert during a botched proposal in which I accidentally ingest the ring. I would be honored to eat this ring. But until I turn into Cardi B, Rihanna, or someone this ring won’t look completely ridiculous on, I will take the poor woman’s version of the Jony Ive all-diamond ring: holding onto an ice cube for a long time until it melts enough for me to put my finger through it. Jony Ive and Marc Newson designed a $250,000 all-diamond ring for charity Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design partner Marc Newson have collaborated frequently on designs for charity in the past.

Sometimes they hit the mark, like with this one-of-a-kind Leica camera; other times, it’s a swing and a miss, like this spooky Christmas tree that would look right at home in the White House. Their latest collaboration, a ring made entirely from a single diamond, is over-the-top luxury and I love it. The ring will be up for a (RED) charity auction at Design Miami on December 5th, and Sotheby’s estimates that the ring will go for $150,000 to $250,000. Ive, who loves minimalism so much that his idea of a perfect magazine cover is a blank one, has once again applied that concept to a diamond ring, opting to replace the metal band altogether with the diamond itself. It’ll be a lab-grown diamond created by Diamond Foundry, the Leonardo DiCaprio-backed company which is certified carbon neutral. The Sotheby’s description explains, “The diamond block will be faceted with several thousand facets, some of which are as small as several hundred micrometers.

The interior ring will be cylindrically cut out for the desired smoothness using a micrometer thick water jet inside which a laser beam is cast.” It’ll be specially crafted for whoever wins the auction, and made to fit up to a US size 5. A ring size of 5 is teeny-tiny (that’s about a 15.6mm diameter), so hopefully, the winner will have small fingers, or be an actual baby.

Here’s the thing: it is beautiful. I would be thrilled if this ring was hidden in my dessert during a botched proposal in which I accidentally ingest the ring. I would be honored to eat this ring. But until I turn into Cardi B, Rihanna, or someone this ring won’t look completely ridiculous on, I will take the poor woman’s version of the Jony Ive all-diamond ring: holding onto an ice cube for a long time until it melts enough for me to put my finger through it.

Season after season, the Buckeyes end up right in the middle of the CFP debate. The College Football Playoff’s only been around for five seasons.

Most years, most of the field crystalizes the day before the selection committee actually announces who’s in. But when there’s been question, one team’s always been at the heart of it. Ohio State has become the Playoff’s most reliable source of controversy, both in years the Buckeyes have made the final four and years they haven’t. It’s true again in 2018.

This is the whole history of contentious Buckeye Playoff debates. 2014: Jumping two teams at the buzzer Ohio State made the field as the No. But entering Championship Saturday, the 11-1 Buckeyes were No. They were two spots behind TCU, which was 10-1 and about to play a bad Iowa State.

OSU had a Big Ten Championship date with No. 13 Wisconsin. Ohio State had lost by 14 at home to a mediocre Virginia Tech back in Week 2, while TCU’s loss was a Week 6 barnburner to an elite Baylor, 61-58. Both OSU and TCU destroyed teams on Champs Weekend.

But Ohio State’s 59-0 romp over an actual good team was enough for the Buckeyes to leapfrog the Frogs, who fell all the way to No. (Baylor moved up from sixth to fifth after matching TCU’s strength of schedule.) Baylor and TCU settled as co-Big 12 champions. The Big 12, of course, was incensed, and installed a conference championship game in the hopes that it would never get locked out of the Playoff again. Entering 2018’s Selection Sunday, the 2014 Buckeyes remained the only team to ever leapfrog a Championship Weekend winner to make the Playoff at the buzzer.

2015: Fairly out in a year without controversy. Ohio State was clearly out this year, by virtue of losing on the last weekend of the regular season to Michigan State. The Spartans won the Big Ten and made the field, which had to happen, even though they’d predictably get destroyed by Bama in a Cotton Bowl semifinal. Ohio State was not a Playoff Chaos Team, but since there wasn’t any debate for anyone else either, we could count the fact that the Buckeyes were probably the Big Ten’s best team, which bowl season would help emphasize. 2016: The first-ever non-champ to make it Ohio State became the first team to make the field despite not winning its conference, grabbing the No. Until this moment, it was assumed by many that a conference title was essentially a requirement. The 11-1 Buckeyes had lost dramatically at Penn State, which went on to win the Big Ten East and then the conference title game over Wisconsin.

But the Nittany Lions had two losses, and the committee — which had kept OSU above PSU in the weeks leading up to Selection Sunday — maintained the Buckeyes deserved a spot. The Nittany Lions slotted fifth, two spots behind the team they beat.

The Buckeyes would get shut out by Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal. 2017: The reverse of 2016 Ohio State finished No. 5, one spot out of the field. The Buckeyes were the only non-Playoff team to have a serious case, but they missed out under the exact precedent they’d helped set the year before.

OSU won the Big Ten, but it had two losses by the time it did: one at home to Oklahoma, and one that involved giving up 55 points to Kirk Ferentz’s Iowa Hawkeyes. The committee decided to take Alabama instead at No. The Tide didn’t win the SEC or even play in its title game, but they only had one loss, to a highly ranked Auburn. Ohio State would’ve been a fine pick, but arguing was difficult given recent context and the tight tale of the tape between the two teams.

That did not stop some Buckeyes fans from alleging an ESPN/SEC/Playoff conspiracy to install the Crimson Tide over a more deserving team from Ohio. UCF was undefeated, but the committee never indicated it cared. 2018: The first one-loss Power 5 champ to miss since the 2014 Big 12? And we’re back, with Ohio State again right on the edge after beating Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship.

It seems likely the Buckeyes will miss out this year, despite being a one-loss Power 5 champion. They entered Championship Saturday ranked No. If either they or Oklahoma don’t get in, they’ll be the first one-loss Power 5 champ to ever miss the field since the Big 12 was appointing “co-champions” in 2014.

In previous years, getting out of a power league as a solo champ with one loss was a guaranteed ticket to the Playoff. What’s different this year is that Notre Dame’s taking up one spot by being undefeated, and as an added wrinkle, the committee might decide to take both unbeaten Alabama and two-loss Georgia from the SEC. Ohio State might be in, but more likely, it will be out. The one absolute certainty is that wherever the Buckeyes fall, there will be hollering about them, just like always.

Every year, Ohio State is part of the Playoff’s biggest controversy Season after season, the Buckeyes end up right in the middle of the CFP debate. The College Football Playoff’s only been around for five seasons. Most years, most of the field crystalizes the day before the selection committee actually announces who’s in. But when there’s been question, one team’s always been at the heart of it. Ohio State has become the Playoff’s most reliable source of controversy, both in years the Buckeyes have made the final four and years they haven’t. It’s true again in 2018.

This is the whole history of contentious Buckeye Playoff debates. 2014: Jumping two teams at the buzzer Ohio State made the field as the No. But entering Championship Saturday, the 11-1 Buckeyes were No. They were two spots behind TCU, which was 10-1 and about to play a bad Iowa State. OSU had a Big Ten Championship date with No. 13 Wisconsin.

Ohio State had lost by 14 at home to a mediocre Virginia Tech back in Week 2, while TCU’s loss was a Week 6 barnburner to an elite Baylor, 61-58. Both OSU and TCU destroyed teams on Champs Weekend. But Ohio State’s 59-0 romp over an actual good team was enough for the Buckeyes to leapfrog the Frogs, who fell all the way to No. (Baylor moved up from sixth to fifth after matching TCU’s strength of schedule.) Baylor and TCU settled as co-Big 12 champions. The Big 12, of course, was incensed, and installed a conference championship game in the hopes that it would never get locked out of the Playoff again. Entering 2018’s Selection Sunday, the 2014 Buckeyes remained the only team to ever leapfrog a Championship Weekend winner to make the Playoff at the buzzer.

2015: Fairly out in a year without controversy. Ohio State was clearly out this year, by virtue of losing on the last weekend of the regular season to Michigan State. The Spartans won the Big Ten and made the field, which had to happen, even though they’d predictably get destroyed by Bama in a Cotton Bowl semifinal. Ohio State was not a Playoff Chaos Team, but since there wasn’t any debate for anyone else either, we could count the fact that the Buckeyes were probably the Big Ten’s best team, which bowl season would help emphasize. 2016: The first-ever non-champ to make it Ohio State became the first team to make the field despite not winning its conference, grabbing the No.

Until this moment, it was assumed by many that a conference title was essentially a requirement. The 11-1 Buckeyes had lost dramatically at Penn State, which went on to win the Big Ten East and then the conference title game over Wisconsin. But the Nittany Lions had two losses, and the committee — which had kept OSU above PSU in the weeks leading up to Selection Sunday — maintained the Buckeyes deserved a spot. The Nittany Lions slotted fifth, two spots behind the team they beat. The Buckeyes would get shut out by Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal. 2017: The reverse of 2016 Ohio State finished No. 5, one spot out of the field.

The Buckeyes were the only non-Playoff team to have a serious case, but they missed out under the exact precedent they’d helped set the year before. OSU won the Big Ten, but it had two losses by the time it did: one at home to Oklahoma, and one that involved giving up 55 points to Kirk Ferentz’s Iowa Hawkeyes. The committee decided to take Alabama instead at No. The Tide didn’t win the SEC or even play in its title game, but they only had one loss, to a highly ranked Auburn. Ohio State would’ve been a fine pick, but arguing was difficult given recent context and the tight tale of the tape between the two teams. That did not stop some Buckeyes fans from alleging an ESPN/SEC/Playoff conspiracy to install the Crimson Tide over a more deserving team from Ohio.

UCF was undefeated, but the committee never indicated it cared. 2018: The first one-loss Power 5 champ to miss since the 2014 Big 12? And we’re back, with Ohio State again right on the edge after beating Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship. It seems likely the Buckeyes will miss out this year, despite being a one-loss Power 5 champion. They entered Championship Saturday ranked No.

If either they or Oklahoma don’t get in, they’ll be the first one-loss Power 5 champ to ever miss the field since the Big 12 was appointing “co-champions” in 2014. In previous years, getting out of a power league as a solo champ with one loss was a guaranteed ticket to the Playoff. What’s different this year is that Notre Dame’s taking up one spot by being undefeated, and as an added wrinkle, the committee might decide to take both unbeaten Alabama and two-loss Georgia from the SEC. Ohio State might be in, but more likely, it will be out. The one absolute certainty is that wherever the Buckeyes fall, there will be hollering about them, just like always. Bowl season’s schedule announcements show up randomly throughout Sunday.

We’ll add each one here as soon as it’s out. College football is different from pretty much any other sport in a lot of ways, including how its postseason gets announced.

Bowl game schedules do not get released all at once — rather, each bowl gets finalized, leaked, reported, or otherwise in spastic bursts throughout Selection Sunday or days prior. Below, we’re keeping track of the 2018-19 bowl season schedule as games get announced or credibly reported, along with dates, locations, and conference ties. This post will be updated throughout Sunday until the final 2018-19 bowl schedule is with us. First, the College Football Playoff The four-team field will officially be announced around 12:30 p.m. December 29 Cotton Bowl Playoff semifinal, Arlington, Texas: No. 1 Alabama vs. 4 team Orange Bowl Playoff semifinal, Miami: No.

3 team January 7 National Championship, Santa Clara, California: Cotton winner vs. Orange winner And now for everything else These bowl matchups will appear as soon as they show up online.

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December 15 New Mexico Bowl: Conference USA vs. Mountain West Cure Bowl, Orlando: AAC vs. UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl: Mountain West vs. Pac-12 Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama: MAC vs. Sun Belt New Orleans Bowl: Appalachian State vs.

Conference USA December 18 Boca Raton Bowl: AAC vs. Conference USA December 19 Frisco Bowl, Texas: AAC vs. TBD December 20 Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa: AAC vs. ACC December 21 Bahamas Bowl: FIU vs. Toledo Potato Bowl, Boise: MAC vs. Mountain West December 22 Birmingham Bowl: AAC vs.

SEC Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth: AAC vs. Big 12 Dollar General Bowl, Mobile: MAC vs.

Sun Belt Hawaii Bowl: Hawaii vs. Louisiana Tech December 26 First Responder Bowl, Dallas: Big Ten vs. Conference USA Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit: ACC vs. Big Ten Cheez-It Bowl, Phoenix: Big 12 vs. Pac-12 December 27 Independence Bowl, Shreveport, Louisiana: ACC vs.

SEC Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx: ACC vs. Big Ten Texas Bowl, Houston: Big 12 vs. SEC December 28 Music City Bowl, Nashville: ACC/Big Ten vs.

SEC Camping World Bowl, Orlando: ACC vs. Big 12 Arizona Bowl, Tucson: Mountain West vs. Arkansas State Alamo Bowl, San Antonio: Big 12 vs. Pac-12 December 29 Peach Bowl, Atlanta: CFP at-large vs. CFP at-large Belk Bowl, Charlotte: ACC vs.

SEC December 31 Military Bowl, Annapolis, Maryland: AAC vs. ACC Sun Bowl, El Paso: ACC vs. Pac-12 Redbox Bowl, Santa Clara, California: Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Liberty Bowl, Memphis: Big 12 vs. SEC Holiday Bowl, San Diego: Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Gator Bowl, Jacksonville: ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC January 1 Outback Bowl, Tampa: Big Ten vs.

SEC Citrus Bowl, Orlando: Big Ten vs. SEC Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Arizona: CFB at-large vs. CFP at-large Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California: Big Ten vs.

Washington Sugar Bowl, New Orleans: Big 12 vs. SEC As for how this all works, here are a few resources of varying seriousness: How bowl games work: 16 frequently asked questions, answered How Playoff rankings work: 14 rules for making the CFP How to start a bowl game in nine steps The 59 silliest bowl game names of all time Too many bowl games? Actually, they’re all wonderful. College football’s 2018-19 bowl games schedule, updated as its announced Bowl season’s schedule announcements show up randomly throughout Sunday. We’ll add each one here as soon as it’s out. College football is different from pretty much any other sport in a lot of ways, including how its postseason gets announced.

Bowl game schedules do not get released all at once — rather, each bowl gets finalized, leaked, reported, or otherwise in spastic bursts throughout Selection Sunday or days prior. Below, we’re keeping track of the 2018-19 bowl season schedule as games get announced or credibly reported, along with dates, locations, and conference ties. This post will be updated throughout Sunday until the final 2018-19 bowl schedule is with us. First, the College Football Playoff The four-team field will officially be announced around 12:30 p.m. December 29 Cotton Bowl Playoff semifinal, Arlington, Texas: No. 1 Alabama vs.

4 team Orange Bowl Playoff semifinal, Miami: No. 3 team January 7 National Championship, Santa Clara, California: Cotton winner vs. Orange winner And now for everything else These bowl matchups will appear as soon as they show up online. December 15 New Mexico Bowl: Conference USA vs.

Mountain West Cure Bowl, Orlando: AAC vs. UL Lafayette Las Vegas Bowl: Mountain West vs. Pac-12 Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama: MAC vs. Sun Belt New Orleans Bowl: Appalachian State vs. Conference USA December 18 Boca Raton Bowl: AAC vs. Conference USA December 19 Frisco Bowl, Texas: AAC vs. TBD December 20 Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa: AAC vs.

ACC December 21 Bahamas Bowl: FIU vs. Toledo Potato Bowl, Boise: MAC vs. Mountain West December 22 Birmingham Bowl: AAC vs. SEC Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth: AAC vs. Big 12 Dollar General Bowl, Mobile: MAC vs.

Sun Belt Hawaii Bowl: Hawaii vs. Louisiana Tech December 26 First Responder Bowl, Dallas: Big Ten vs. Conference USA Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit: ACC vs.

Big Ten Cheez-It Bowl, Phoenix: Big 12 vs. Pac-12 December 27 Independence Bowl, Shreveport, Louisiana: ACC vs.

SEC Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx: ACC vs. Big Ten Texas Bowl, Houston: Big 12 vs. SEC December 28 Music City Bowl, Nashville: ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC Camping World Bowl, Orlando: ACC vs. Big 12 Arizona Bowl, Tucson: Mountain West vs. Arkansas State Alamo Bowl, San Antonio: Big 12 vs.

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Pac-12 December 29 Peach Bowl, Atlanta: CFP at-large vs. CFP at-large Belk Bowl, Charlotte: ACC vs. SEC December 31 Military Bowl, Annapolis, Maryland: AAC vs. ACC Sun Bowl, El Paso: ACC vs.

Pac-12 Redbox Bowl, Santa Clara, California: Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Liberty Bowl, Memphis: Big 12 vs. SEC Holiday Bowl, San Diego: Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Gator Bowl, Jacksonville: ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC January 1 Outback Bowl, Tampa: Big Ten vs.

SEC Citrus Bowl, Orlando: Big Ten vs. SEC Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Arizona: CFB at-large vs. CFP at-large Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California: Big Ten vs. Washington Sugar Bowl, New Orleans: Big 12 vs. SEC As for how this all works, here are a few resources of varying seriousness: How bowl games work: 16 frequently asked questions, answered How Playoff rankings work: 14 rules for making the CFP How to start a bowl game in nine steps The 59 silliest bowl game names of all time Too many bowl games? Actually, they’re all wonderful.

Speaking with Tony Chambers from Wallpaper., Ive said Apple Pencil is in some ways a of Apple's iOS development. That Apple's multitouch user interface requires only fingers to operate makes it intuitive, but certain activities like drawing and sketching are better accomplished with traditional form factor tools.

'What we found is that there's clearly a group of people that would value an instrument that would enable then sic to paint or draw in ways that you just can't with your finger,' Ive said. 'And I suspect that this isn't a small group of people. I don't think it's confined to those of us who went to art school.' Apple Pencil is not intended to be used as a stylus, that is as a replacement for your finger.

Ive believes the design itself makes it clear Pencil is to be implemented specifically for making marks, drawing, sketching and note taking. 'So we are very clear in our own minds that this will absolutely not replace the finger as a point of interface.

But it is, and I don't think anybody would argue, a far better tool than your finger when your focus becomes exclusively making marks,' he said. 'The traditional pencil could have been replaced by a dish of powdered charcoal, which you dipped your finger into to make marks with.

And that didn't happen.' 'So we are very clear in our own minds that this will absolutely not replace the finger as a point of interface. But it is, and I don't think anybody would argue, a far better tool than your finger when your focus becomes exclusively making marks.' - Jony IveTo realize Apple Pencil, Ive and company had to perform an analysis of the 'traditional experience of the analogue world' before translating that experience to a digital medium. The process was a case study in Apple's design philosophy, as Ive's team distilled the act of writing and drawing down to the fundamentals, observing the 'tiniest details of in terms of what we do and how we do it, and why we do it.' Apple came away from the exercise with a better understanding of how we as collective users approach and accomplish everyday tasks, information that can be applied beyond Pencil, Ive said. Building those teachings into an electronic device was no mean feat.

Not only did Apple have to find a way to cram sensors, a rechargeable battery and control hardware into Pencil's unassuming design, but it also had to develop new supporting technologies for iPad as well. Ive mentioned the system's low latency, a feature made possible by a bespoke display subsystem that samples Pencil-to-screen interaction 240 times per second. By comparison, iPad Pro collects data at half that rate when tracking finger input.

As for Apple's decision to name its new device something other than a variation on 'stylus,' Ive said he likes the Pencil moniker as it's 'very analogue in its association.' Assigning the tool a particular name was a challenge because Pencil will ultimately become many different tools thanks to pressure- and tilt-sensing technology. Apps available in the iOS App Store help push this idea of a multi-tool further along, with the current selection enabling use as a paintbrush, drafting tool, fountain pen and more.