It is often lamented that Douglas Noël Adams, author of the supremely excellent Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, did not live to see the debut of the iPhone. Many people made the connection between Apple’s iPhone and the fictional device for which Adams’ book series is named—an electronic device that could tell you everything about anything, and was very useful for getting out of an interplanetary jam. If the iPhone wasn’t the true coming of the HHGTTG, then the iPad certainly is.

As a tribute to Adams and to the Apple iPad arriving next month in the form of this do-anything device, I have made a wallpaper which bears the same words as each and every Hitchhiker’s Guide: “Don’t Panic!” I hope you do enjoy and make it your own.

Download Don’t Panic wallpaper for Apple iPad

Douglas Adams was a massive Apple fan, or should I say Macintosh fan. He was an early devotee to the platform and his archived articles on usability and human-computer interaction remain as humorous as they are insightful. Tragically, the British author died of a heart attack in 2001.