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Told that Macworld Expo 2009 will be Apple’s last, and the first that CEO Steve Jobs does not keynote, investors behaved much as you’d imagine, dragging the company’s shares into the mud in after-hours trading. Fueling the panic: obvious concerns about Jobs’s well-being. And, of course, speculation that Macworld is likely to disappoint devotees hoping for the introduction of some insanely great new product. But would Apple really send Senior VP Phil Schiller out onto the Macworld stage without a cool new product to introduce?

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Dissapointing news for the Mac faithful and anyone who’s ever seen Apple CEO Steve Jobs deliver his annual Macworld keynote address. Macworld Expo 2009 will be the first such event that Jobs will not keynote and the last the company will attend.

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QOTD

110 over 70. This is Steve’s blood pressure. This is all we’re going to say about Steve’s health today. If you want to see it go higher, ask him more questions about it.”

– Apple CEO Steve Jobs offers a quick health update at Tuesday’s MacBook event

In a short video, senior designer Jon Ives and other members of Apple’s industrial design team explain the new unibody enclosure. Machining enables a level of precision unheard of in the industry, says Ives. In many ways, these notebooks are more beautiful on the inside than they are on the outside.

There’s lots of emphasis at this unveiling on environmental concerns, reducing the footprint for manufacturing the new notebooks.

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The biggest news to come out of Apple’s “Let’s Rock” media event tomorrow may not be an iTunes 8 or a refresh of the company’s iPod line. It may not even be that rumored AppleTV with DVR and TV tuner capabilities–though that would certainly be a nice surprise. No, the biggest news to come out of “Let’s Rock” will be Steve Jobs and his health and health-problems–life-threatening or not.

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To increased endurance, capacity for mental and physical labor, gastrointestinal disturbance and other effects of coffee add one more: longevity. According to a new study of coffee drinking, people who drink several cups of coffee every day are less likely to die of heart disease than those don’t.

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Carbon nanotubes are apparently the new asbestos. According to a study overseen by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, carbon nanotubes not only look like asbestos fibers, but behave like them as well. And, just like asbestos fibers, they can cause mesothelioma, a cancer that occurs in the lining of the lungs.

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