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iWalk

i just unloaded my iWalk movie

I posted that movie before SpyMac released thiers .. so now that I have agreed to thier bogus agreement thing I am forced to take it off.... sorry (guess you should update your front page)

Mike
 
close . . .

the design is just not clean enough for apple . . .

the huge apple icon in the "scroll wheel" ??
the lame "palm-ish" icons along the bottom of the screen ?? . . . it's just not beautiful enough for steve . . . and apple . . . nice try though . . .
 
I was just thinking Spy mac has one of these? they went to their test site to test the web browser so they must have one or know someone who does. Moby and Seal had an iPod before it came out so it is possable for some people to have one. Just how long has this spymac.com been around? If apple makes them take this down it might lend more credit or they might just say apple told them to take it down. As far as the handwriting the iPaq and HP have the same abilities just you cannot write anywhere on the screen like you can on this one.



I want to believe.


 
that movie is real

The guy doing the writing in the "say hello" movie is also doing the filming - thats why the thing moves at the end.

Strangely the boot up movie looks totally fake......

But the back of the thing in the other movie, and the FCC and the port symbols, and the ports.....
It looks real.

if it is real, Spymac will be feeling the weight of a lawsuit within the next 12 hours.

The "turnaround " movie is so real, though.
Size is about 7 inches by 4.5, a bit bigger than the average palm. Screen is 5 inches by 4.

So some clues for real and some against.

There are some other PDA's that look a bit like this - with some effort, they could be made to look like an Apple. Firewire symbols etc are easy to fake, and the screen seems a bit odd in all pics.

Damn this is fun! We are just a bunch of crazed Apple groupie-fans turned loony Sherlock Holmes's!

It could be a firewire drive, like an MCE product, with some bits pasted on........Its almost exactly like my buddy's sony external floppy for his Vaio.......






 
the turnaround movie even

has an elarging desk. it looks cool but seeing desk getting bigger because you put down the iWalk or lift your hand from the iWalk leads me to believe its a fake.

What a waste.
 
Don't be fooled

Wouldn't you think if the iWalk was an authentic Apple product that Apple Legal wouldn't have already intercepted the site with a cease and decist?

 
Fake

The text is completely stationary in reference to the frame, but the "iWalk" and the desk move ever so slightly especially at the end of the movie. Also, the pixel response of an LCD screen is much slower than the instantaneous response in the movies. When videotaping a palm or any similar device you can see the latency as the pixels change...obviously a fake...I'd like to see the iWalk in motion when it is turned ON instead of just stationary on the desk...an obvious sign of a fake because it makes it much easier to fake. Nice work...an improvement from the iWalk 1.0 we saw months ago. Next time I just might believe it. I hear ILM is hiring. 😉
 
"enlarging desk"

i'm fairly certain the "enlarging desk" is actually the "iWalk" slip case getting pushed aside as he supposedly writes...

assuming this is faked, i'm sure the only thing composited digitally was the screen display.
 
Perhaps Apple is behind this?

There's a lot of work in that iWalk if it's a fake.

What if Apple was behind it just to throw everyone off?

If I was Steve I would to it just to screw with everyone.

Personally I think it's pretty cool. I would buy it.

 
What's up with this?

Take a close look at the movie "bootup" when the guy moves the wheel, it doesn't seem to move with his hand and then it jumps. Watch it slowly and you will see what Im talking about
 
It's fake.

Trust me, it's fake. Wjy would I come up with a dopey name like iWalk? You people are so gullible.

Your pal,
Steve
 
Awesome!

This looks way too convincing to be a fake. What an awesome little unit.

Why I believe this would succeed:
- Apple has so many ex-Newton users to which this unit would appeal; for years now they have been forced to migrate to the inferior but more popular Palm/PocketPC lineups.
- The "i" generation brought on by Steve Jobs has attracted MANY other curious and impressed computer users AND novices. He has established that powerful, effective technology need not be complicated and boring; I'm sure the iWalk would follow suit.

I'll be damned if that movie and those photos were a hoax. Apple should definitely hire them
 
Semi-Pro Opinion

Is this iWalk technically possible? Yes. From Apple? Oh hell yes.

Is it real or fake?

60% lean to fake, 40% to real.

Why?

The biggest fake-ness is the startup screen where it says "Apple iWalk" which is completely and utterly unlike other Apple products. The iPod doesn't say "Apple iPod" when it boots up. There is no "Apple" next to iMac or PowerBook or iBook. Why start with this thing? The Apple logo is one of the most recognized brand symbols ever.

That big knob thing is just not right for a portable handheld device. Its too "big" and lumpy compared to the rest of the device.

The GUI seems too perfect for an Apple product. Mac OS X is nice and all, but its kinda clunky compared to Classic despite Mac OS X having the function-confused Dock and central command-nexus Apple Menu.

Frankly it looks neat and all, but I'd say fake before I'd consider it a real device. Steve Jobs can prove me wrong next monday if he wants.

I'd like a new PDA, but I fear the cost of this thing to be prohibitive unless you wanted a companion portable Mac or have lots of tax refund coming your way. Based on the iPod I'd venture a price tag of $599 to $799 (knowing Apple).

Whomever made this video did a good job of it. If it were real I'd buy one probably (depending on how it syncs with a Mac and the kind of app support it will have). Didn't see an IrDA port, kinda neat to beam small bits around with Palm devices. I still have the MacWorld Expo SF guide on mine that was beamed in.

A few days and counting and we will definately know what the big deal is no matter what.
 
Bootup.mov

I still cannot get the bootup.mov to work - keep getting a blank screen ... what am I doing wrong....I've been jumping around like an N'Sync groupie all day...now I'm starting to think "FAKE" ...but I still want to believe.. thanks for any help!!!
 
I think your right

about the sayhello.mov It seems like the blackness is actually the case for the iwalk.

But look at the turnaround.mov. The desk at the end gets bigger after het sets the iWalk down
 
We make prototypes like these for our industrial design classes all the time.

With a little bit of programming and static screen shots, it is conceivable to pass this off. All we need is standard software (ok, don't shoot me - I'm sure it's more technical than that - I'm not a techie) to display graphics, possibly a web browser. Use animated gifs for movies.

Great job! You got to admit, even if it is a hoax (god, say it aint so), it is a damn good one and it's been tons of fun! Only MacHeads would go to such lengths.

In Jobs we trust!
 
Steve

Steve, is that you?? Nah. The Apple logo does move on the product during frames, without being touched. I am positive it is a fake
 
who the hell are spymac?

I think its real. Thats my opinion.

What I want to know is who are http://www.spymac.com?
I have never seen 'em before? Is this some kind of an Apple trick? First we get the "way beyond the rumor sites" text on Apple.com, and then this.
We are being suckered big time here.

This is the whois on these guys:

admin-c-title: Herr
admin-c-firstname: Bengy
admin-c-lastname: April
admin-c-street: 292 7th Avenve South
admin-c-pcode: T1J1H7
admin-c-city: Lethbridge, Alberta
admin-c-ccode: CA
admin-c-phone: +1 4033173141
admin-c-fax: +1 5092776070
admin-c-email: bengy@mac.com

Domain Name: SPYMAC.COM
Registrar: SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
Whois Server: whois.schlund.de
Referral URL: http://www.schlund.de
Name Server: NS3.KUNDENSERVER.DE
Name Server: NS4.KUNDENSERVER.DE
Updated Date: 24-dec-2001

The admin is a Canadian! The site is owned by a German corporation - what gives?

Why updated on the 24th december? And the admins name: Benjy April? really? !!!!!!!


[Edited by elgruga on 01-03-2002 at 01:39 AM]
 
apple.com

When has apple.com been updating their main page these past few days?
 
Bootup.mov should work now.

I had someone reupload a hacked version of "bootup.mov" for me. Because the one Spymac had was.. I dunno.. "messed up" you could only get 600 K. Ours has all 2.6 MB of it though.

mod edit: the link that was here is no longer available

enjoy
 
Problems with Bootup.mov

If you tried to download the bootup movie to quickly (before the 3rd movie was uploaded) you may have to download it again. (if it is blank and asks for the 3rd movie when opened in QT). If your browser refuses to refresh the movie, you can close your browser and delete all of the cache files in order to erase the bad data.
 
oooh... too many little bizzaro thingys that make it seem fake...

btw, it does have an IrDA port, at the bottom (you can see the label when you see the back of the unit... and in the first few frames of turnaround you can see the IrDA port...
 
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