New lifestyle device too?

[galopagos]

In addition to the video clip (which my apple friend has verified for me) of the new g4 case enclosure, my apple friend has since sent me another set of four quicktime single frames from the promotional video their working on for the next lifestyle device.

She didnt send me a device name or description, but "tempted my senses" with the following images (attached below).

My question: Is this apple friend o' mine giving me a blacklisted backstage pass, or is the Apple staff getting phoroshop happy and spreading disinformation to screw with the rumormongers' heads? I have no reason to think this person is lying, but what is Apple is actually getting serious on protecting their secrets after the time magazine canada imac flop?

[iH8Quark]

Oh this is insanely cruel! I can't tell what it is!!!!! :mad: It appears to have something to do with photography since it's sync-ing with iPhoto. Is this the digital picture frame? Or maybe a new Apple branded Camera? That would be SWEET!

What movie of the new G4 enclosures? Where can I see it !!!!! PLEASE!!!! :( :D

[MacAztec]

Originally posted by galopagos
In addition to the video clip (which my apple friend has verified for me) of the new g4 case enclosure pass

Ehhh...where is this clip?

[whfsdude]

he is not going to show you because he doesn't have one LIAR ;) wink wink ;)

[Stike]

This looks VERY Photoshopped to me. Why shoul Apple bring a device with USB AND Firewire? Wheres the point in that?

And btw it cant be a digital camera, it looks too thin for that - so where is the connection to iPhoto anyway...

Thats a fake, obvious.:cool:

[LaserGuided]

I've seen smaller cameras, but if it is a camera, it still is not very impressive.
Maybe I'll wait to jump up and down with joy.:(

[Durandal7]

It looks oddly like a guy, a photoshopped iPod and an iBook.
Maybe it's just me though.

[tjwett]

Originally posted by whfsdude
he is not going to show you because he doesn't have one LIAR ;) wink wink ;)

I think they're just referring to the pic that was part of a video clip... He/She posted a thread in the "News Discussion" forum that had a still image taken from a piece of video that is supposed to be of one of the new towers coming at MWNY. They didn't post the actual clip or did it sound like they even had it. I think they just had the jpeg. Go check it out. And anyway, what are these pictures supposed to be? All I see is the iBook. I don't get it.

[galopagos]

well according to the apple chick, this is the video clip that is ready for posting to the akamai servers once the jobs keynote is complete. she wouldnt tell me much other than that.


i've looked at the videos of the ipod and the new imac, and i recognise the guy in the video clip (Philip, world marketing for apple), but it doesnt look like a still from either video...

[Grokgod]

This looks like NOTHING , nothing at all!

Much like the single photo from a video of a g4 enclosure that was photoshoped and posted.

This new thread is even less....

I think that someone is trying to spark things up with a little fake rumors..

Now , I dont think that its such a bad idea to do that, but for gods sake man.

Could you do it a little better than this!

If you friend gave you a video or you have seen it or he has told you about it, then what is all this lack of information and proper visual....?

[LaserGuided]

The guy in the photo looks like he has a glass eye.
Take a look at his left eye.;)

[tjwett]

Originally posted by LaserGuided
The guy in the photo looks like he has a glass eye.
Take a look at his left eye.;)

maybe that's the new device! a biomechanical socket-mounted digital camera...you just blink and it takes a snapshot! then you plug into the USB port, which used to be your belly button, and upload the images into iPhoto. sounds cool. i think they should call it the "iEye".

[Grokgod]

Thats not a glass eye!

Thats the gleam of confusion and lies.

You must have led a charmed life , not to recognize that...:)

[LaserGuided]

I like the iEye concept!
It'll use blue chip technology so you can have blue eyes, and you'll just be able to look
at your mac and send your photos to it.

[billiam0878]

Originally posted by Stike
This looks VERY Photoshopped to me. Why shoul Apple bring a device with USB AND Firewire? Wheres the point in that?


Perhaps there will be a new/different version of the iPod that will allow the user to download their digital images to its hard drive. I have a feeling that the iPod is going to be much more than an MP3 player (after all, it is not just called iListen). Just my 2 cents,

Bill

[tjwett]

Originally posted by LaserGuided
I like the iEye concept!
It'll use blue chip technology so you can have blue eyes, and you'll just be able to look
at your mac and send your photos to it.

ha ha! geez, i'm afraid to get a bluetooth mouse! i don't know if i want all those high mhz waves pulsing thru my head. but chicks dig blue eyes...hmm..ok, i'm in.

[ShaolinMiddleFinger]

maybe it's a toaster!!!!! I say it's just some old ads put together. Lame so lame....make a fake PDA one at least!! hahahahahaah

[atodd]

I'd say this is for real, folks. I've looked through ALL of Apple's promo videos since the TiBook and have come to this conclusion. This is for a few reasons:

- Phil Schiller NEVER wears that color shirt with that kind of collar. Neither. It is always different.

- The USB/FireWire thing...well, it may be for use with (gasp) PeeCees? This is real because it is thinner than the iPod (judging from the size of the FW port) and has rounded ends, whereas the iPod is sharp from that angle.

- There has never been a promo video with an iBook and iPhoto

- The fourth image has Apple's dock, which has brighter, more rich colors than the real Dock. For example, it's in the iMac print ads. The iTunes icon is nicer and the System Prefs one (not visible here) is too.

I'd say it is for real.

Where is Phil? Judging from the ceiling behind him, he's at the Expo. I'm looking forward to this!

[dongmin]

I'm actually intrigued by the upper right image. It looks like it could be real. I don't know of any current Apple product that has a firewire port set on a polished metal surface.

But if this rumor is legit, then I'm disappointed b/c I don't care to see an Apple-branded digital camera or photo frame. If all it does is sync with iPhoto, what's the point? Most digital cameras already do that.

I want more.

[kishba]

dude.... you're gettin an iWalk!!!

maybe this is the infamous iWalk that Steve has up his sleeve

i can't wait until macworld to see if these clips were true or not

[job]

Originally posted by kishba
dude.... you're gettin an iWalk!!!

Includes a leather case. :D

Pics look interesting; certainly the Phil picture, but what the heck is that blur accross his chest and between his arms? :confused:

[Wes]

I looked closely @ that blur and it says his name Phllip Schiller and below it says something else that I can't read. Below that it probably says something about his position, which has been mentioned already.

[job]

I was actually wondering about the blur over his left breast pocket. It looks a bit out of place, then again, it could just be me. :D

[SPG]

Hmmm, PDA? HD for digital camera? Digital camera?
Many digital cameras only have USB outs, so that might be the reason for both FW and USB...download from digital camera and plug into ibook later.
If that's all, then that's not too exciting, unless it's also an iPod and a PDA, and a picture viewer, and a movie player, and a wireless web browser, and a...

[dongmin]

Did you guys notice the poster hanging behind Phil? It's an image of an hourglass. Hmmm, another clue???

[tjwett]

Originally posted by dongmin
Did you guys notice the poster hanging behind Phil? It's an image of an hourglass. Hmmm, another clue???
yeah, i noticed this too. i don't remeber Apple ever using an hourglass before. Then it hit me, the Windows mouse thing! We have a beachball or a watch, and they have an hourglass. Perhaps this will be a Windows compatible device? i hope not but who knows? maybe they will start making the iApps available for Windows as free downloads, like Quicktime. Maybe to entice potential "switchers"? i'm guessing obviously, but that's the best i could come up with.

[Backtothemac]

What about that time is represented by an hourglass? With a camera, you capture the times of your life. Digital camera based on a 5 gig firewire drive.

3 megapixels
2x optical zoom
6x digital
5gig hd
usb and fw connections
499

Free leather case and engraving as well ;)

[dekator]

hey, I told MaacRumors before, there's going to be iShake...
Why they never put it up, I don't know...
Here are some pics...
(evidently it integrates with iPhoto and iMovie)
And, yes, Apple bought Shake :D

[dekator]

*MacRumors, of course. Here's some more:

[dekator]

...

[job]

Interesting to say the least, but what does iShake have to do with the unidentified piece of hardware (possible fake) in the first post.

hitman

[tjwett]

holy *****!!!!

am i just really naive or does this look real? i'm convinced.

[ibjoshua]

my 2 cents

1. the pics look real

2. the sequence makes sense.

shot 1: phil (wow, i feel like i know him reading everyone's posts) introduces a new product.

shot 2: close up on product
(camera, iwalk, photoframe -- eeeeergh! )

shot 3: plug it in

shot 4: synchronize with your favourite digital photo app

3. i doubt very much that anyone could make a digital photoframe that i'd want. i mean, why would you want one? yuck. a tacky waste of money. apple make functional stuff and a photoframe is not functional. a slimline camera is.
also, who would put firewire on a photoframe? unless it had a decent hard drive

josh
out

[Edot]

This is obviously photoshopped! This is my creation, check it out it only took a few minutes. And I think the Schiller pic is an old one.

http://homepage.mac.com/eadamson/PhotoAlbum2.html

[DavPeanut]

I think the pictures are boooooogus

[tjwett]

i think the ones with Phil Schiller are nothing to get excited about but the iShake ones look pretty convincing to me.

[phufball71]

Originally posted by tjwett
holy *****!!!!

am i just really naive or does this look real? i'm convinced.


i believe this has it's own forum already and has already been talked about

http://www.macrumors.com/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=3879&highlight=ishake

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by Edot
This is obviously photoshopped! This is my creation, check it out it only took a few minutes. And I think the Schiller pic is an old one.

http://homepage.mac.com/eadamson/PhotoAlbum2.html

I am glad I am not the only one here with some sense. Too bad it takes a newbie poster to keep it real since everyone else has been pulled in my the dark side of phony rumours.

I remember once I tried to pay out a few people on here by saying I was friends with Jobs and he had a G6 in a G4 case and the G5 was being released blah blah blah. There were people who took me for real. You can tell people here ANYTHING and they will believe it.

[rman2008]

If you will recall MacRumors posted a rumor saying that Apple was to add to there Digital Lifestyle Devices with a Digital Picture Frame. Note that this is of perfect size. The iPhoto shot is in slideshow mode enabling the user to view his slideshow. It is USB/Firewire compatible. Sounds good to me.

I am really 12 years old. I just said I was 13.

[galopagos]

Yep, they're fake. I salute those who magnified the images, compared them to previous videos and yes, even the guy who set up his OWN HOMEPAGE to disprove my images. Kudos dude, we're on the same time-wasting pier.

As for how, well check the other dude's homepage for the major details... as for the small things that were overlooked:

1) Philip's shirt was color-changed in photoshop, with some minor alterations with the healing brush to remove an extra button on the neckline, and some of the wrinkles to prevent it from being immediately identified from the ipod video (all the frames came from the ipod video)

2) The background was from a web site promoting backdrop designs (i dont remember which, i did a google search for 'photographer backdrop' or something to find it)

3) Image if altered ipod WAS just as the other guy said, with a USB connector photographed from my iMac keyboard. Good job by the way on uncovering this one!

4) The imac as well, kudos on the uncovering of this.

5) The hand connecting the cable from the ipod to the ibook was exactly from an ipod movie frame. I rotated the hand a bit and removed wrinkles from the thumb to prevent people from immediately identifying it.


In all, I was impressed on how serious this was taken. It made the front of macrumors, which is validation enough for me. :-)

Also, this should serve as a reminder to those who feel that providing press credentials to rumor sites will in no way deter apple's ability to keep a secret. There will always be guys like me with too much time, photoshop, and a willingness to see how gullible users get near macworld time. Iwalks, titanium towers, even quark os x betas aside.

Again, thanks for the fun. I'm sure others will crop up soon. This iShake looks too iMovie to me, for example. I know apple just bought this program over a month ago, and now we see a beta that is more aquafied than final cut pro? Oh yeah, we all could be making twice our current salaries if we put these talents to more productive uses.

Finally, just remember: we all love Apple. Have fun.

Galopagos

[MikeMac]

Can anyone make out the text next to the camera icon in iPhoto? You know, the area where it usually states what make/model camera is connected and how many photos it contains?

Zooming in offered zero help and I don't have any photo-editing tools to sharpen the image enough to read the text.

[madamimadam]

This just in from Steve himself to be released at MYNY. The new TiMac... an iMac G4 with MegaWide Titanium screen.

[galopagos]

For the guy posting after my confession, i had typed "Apple iSnap Camera" and then blurred it.

.. love the tiMac!

[King Cobra]

timallen, you must be really bored to make such artwork like that! :D

Folks, let's get this Philip Schiller thing straight. During the time of the iBook 500, he was the Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing within Apple. I'm not too sure if he still is.

PS has worn a similar shirt with the same color collar, but in the iBook 500 video the color was a little lighter.

I think that this iShake is a bunch of i*****. :eek: :D

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by King Cobra
timallen, you must be really bored to make such artwork like that! :D

Folks, let's get this Philip Schiller thing straight. During the time of the iBook 500, he was the Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing within Apple. I'm not too sure if he still is.

PS has worn a similar shirt with the same color collar, but in the iBook 500 video the color was a little lighter.

I think that this iShake is a bunch of i*****. :eek: :D

Make????
Artwork????

I am sure I have NO idea what you are talking about!

;)

[MikeMac]

I was actually writing my post as you were posting yours. I thought I made out the word "Apple" in iPhoto - nice attention to detail! :cool:

[King Cobra]

>Make????
Artwork????
So you are saying you didn't make this? (And if it's anything Apple related, it's artwork!) If you didn't, then at least give credit. Then work on your sentence structure. :D

>I am sure I have NO idea what you are talking about!
You should now, Bubba! :eek:

[digital1]

I want it to be a pda, BUT the icon in the corner looks like a camera. So it could be a camera. BUT they could be doing a Sony move by integrating a camera into a PDA heh heh heh.. I know eye hates me by now with the PDA thing, but hey i can dream... who knows.... But Sony and Apple shared technology together. We all know it was probably fireware tech. but hey other things could have been included....

[tjwett]

i didn't know that these iShake pics have already been seen and are already deemed fake. they really fooled me. i guess i'm just suffering from MWNY fever. my mistake.

[sparkleytone]

for the guys who are saying "the guy in the picture", thats Phil Schiller get a clue. For the guy who said iPhoto and the iBook have never been promoed together, the iBook is what the iPhoto commercial CENTERED around. duh. i say this looks mighty real, altho it also seems somewhat easy to design something white and then put three apple things around it. theres power in threes. good job on the fake.

[King Cobra]

>MWNY fever.
Easy, big guy. I think around the time of expos everyone starts making these crazy predictions and unusual rumors, thinking that he/she may be right. And, as Gelfin suggested elsewhere, these people try to use ad hog reasoning to prove them right, when we all try to prove them wrong. Those that prove them wrong are the sane folk! :D Just kidding...

I have a feeling you aren't alone, tjwett, and I have three explanations why. The first is because of al the iWalk rumors that have been spreading about, along with fake pictures (and some excellent mock-ups). The second would be all these people with "dreamland" posts, such as 5GHz G5s, or THz processors, or "...and one more thing,..." expected responses by SJ about some ridiculous rumor.

The third may seem less obvious...but have you noticed how many guests have been coming to the boards lately? It seems to be that there is an avg. of about 30 to 40 members, and around 200 guests. The server even F'ed up on me a couple of times, saying it was busy. I still can't imagine what the servers are going to be like in a week or so.

[digital1]

Good job wett never let anybody have fun... I know that man... let us have fun. Besides MW is next week. speculation is half the fun even if we know it is all not happening.

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by King Cobra
>Make????
Artwork????
So you are saying you didn't make this? (And if it's anything Apple related, it's artwork!) If you didn't, then at least give credit. Then work on your sentence structure. :D

>I am sure I have NO idea what you are talking about!
You should now, Bubba! :eek:

What are you talking about, I told you, it came from Steve himself. It is from the new Promo shots which he sent to me.

[digital1]

yeah... whatever.... i am not stupid... it has been established that this is a mock up.... whats the point with the saracasm.

[King Cobra]

>What are you talking about, I told you, it came from Steve himself.
My eyes were obviously locked on the future product and not on the word "Steve", since the picture is bigger. :D

>It is from the new Promo shots which he sent to me.
Can he also send you information on how much that weighs? I'm guessing it weighs your creative thought process and how bored you are to not make a separate thread for this! :D

[digital1]

whats the point in making a seperate thread. What does that do for the forum. We're here to talk about apple not beat eachother down.

[job]

Originally posted by galopagos
1) Philip's shirt was color-changed in photoshop, with some minor alterations with the healing brush to remove an extra button on the neckline, and some of the wrinkles to prevent it from being immediately identified from the ipod video (all the frames came from the ipod video)

Yeah the shirt did look a bit odd, especially the blur between his hands.

[eyelikeart]

well the prospect of another lifestyle device is very nice...but that teaser shot of it's connection is a bit contrived wouldn't u think?

[ibjoshua]

full credit for the fake galopagos
like i said it looked real
you had most of us guessing

now for the most fundamental of all questions: why?

d'ya get the same thrill as a virus author out of wasting our time?


J

[job]

I don't really mind it as it at least gives us (the Macrumors community) something to talk about. :rolleyes: Even if it is fake.

[galopagos]

I had a lousy sunday, got bored, and opened up photoshop. I wanted a little piece of satifaction, iWalk style, but it was also to see how big I could get it going. I have other images that i didnt put up yet (and wont since the thrill is gone).. one being a Dell laptop running what looks like an XP scaled down version of itunes, another being a set of two towers and an lcd imac, connected via airport, collectively rendering a final cut pro file (i stopped work on that one when i saw the iShake fakes)..

It was something to do... not to mention i got good space on the front page of macrumors for a while...

[dekator]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize there already was a thread on iShake...
Possibly I never saw mention of it or got any feedback from Rumors

[dekator]

and... the iShake thingy was just for fun. I certainly don't believe in it ;)

[arn]

Originally posted by galopagos

It was something to do... not to mention i got good space on the front page of macrumors for a while...

Posting fake images is a good way to get into the ignore list of the admins.

arn

[MacKenzie999]

Phil is clearly bragging about his manhood. Check out the pic again.

[Young Turk]

I thought the post by Galopagos was legit! Is he now saying it isn't?

Young Turk

[eyelikeart]

the first 2 looked real...but the 3rd one just happened to be blurry?! :confused:

I don't know if I'm going for it either...but we'll see soon enough right? ;)

[job]

Originally posted by dekator
and... the iShake thingy was just for fun. I certainly don't believe in it ;)

Well, eye, does this quote coming from the guy who posted the iShake images answer your question. :D

[3rdpath]

Originally posted by arn


Posting fake images is a good way to get into the ignore list of the admins.

arn

yes and the badly photoshopped "new enclosures" galopagos posted in another thread are a complete waste of time.

galopagos..you need to find another creative outlet.

[galopagos]

are not what i was touting here. I did want to see how far epoplewould take a series of rumors. I posted 3, i still have several other unpublished photoshopped items, but i wanted to see how much effort had to be put in until people believed it:

1) The 'bad' g4 case took 35 minutes, mostly through searching google for images (i was trying for a white keyboard i could fit in)

2) The Philip video clips took 30 minutes, and very little effort with the healing brush to convince several here.

3) The Quark OS X beta screenshot was the most interesting. It didnt receive any 'fake' opinions. The only responses I got concerned quark's latecoming to os x.

[tjwett]

i have to admit, the iShake pics had me fooled. i guess it was fun while it lasted.

[vitruvius]

now THIS IS THE REAL new Lifestyle device:

[ibjoshua]

hey vitruvious

i like the bamboo stuff and the macs are pretty cool. apple should give you a job

josh

[vitruvius]

Hey Joshua, thx to take some minutes to take a look on my page:)

by the way u live in a nice place, but theres no place like home!! :p

[old_machead]

Maybe it has something to do with the PDA Apple is trying to get produced in Taiwan - here is the quote:

"Separately, Apple is seeking production of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and some computer peripherals, such as its wireless communications access points, namely airports, in Taiwan. The new acquisition of Apple's eMac order by Hon Hai further shows that Taiwan's IT companies have won high profiles in Apple's contract-making policy."

Here is the link:

http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/moren/192188