New iPod in black also?

[Rajj]

I just got this email from the Apple store.
Is this a black iPod, or am I trippin?
Look at the buttons also, they're red!!

 

[neut]

nope

it's just the lighting. it's turned down so you can see the backlit display and buttons.

peace.

 

[Pete_Hoover]

.You are trippin, as you say.

 

[Rajj]

Re: nope

Originally posted by neut
it's just the lighting. it's turned down so you can see the backlit display and buttons.

peace.

What about the buttons?

 

[icetraxxg5]

You are tripping

that is just the lighting as you can clearly see. Its showing how the buttons are backlite.

 

[icetraxxg5]

The buttons glow so you can see the iPod in the dark if that explaines it a bit more clearly.

 

[neut]

Re: Re: nope

Originally posted by xrhajj
What about the buttons?

they turn red. as shown in your picture and on apple.com

 

[bertagert]

Do you think its easy to change the color of the back lighting on the buttons? I think blue would be a better color than red.

Is it an actual light or the colored plastic behind those touch sensitive buttons?

 

[voicegy]

Originally posted by bertagert
Do you think its easy to change the color of the back lighting on the buttons? I think blue would be a better color than red.

Is it an actual light or the colored plastic behind those touch sensitive buttons?

*sigh* We're never satisfied, are we?

There will be plenty of reports Friday night as hordes of us rabid Apple fans invade the stores...myself included. Stay tuned....

 

[bertagert]

i'm satisfied.

just want the cuffs to match the collar thats all. Looks like a christamas tree with all those colors.

 

[sparks9]

Well the iPod needs some color anyways... beeing all white and that.

 

[mcrain]

Originally posted by bertagert
i'm satisfied.

just want the cuffs to match the collar thats all. Looks like a christamas tree with all those colors.

Sorry buddy, but it's sort of like dating. Sometimes they just don't match, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth spending the money on.

 

[yzedf]

Originally posted by bertagert
Do you think its easy to change the color of the back lighting on the buttons? I think blue would be a better color than red.

Is it an actual light or the colored plastic behind those touch sensitive buttons?

Blue kills your night vision. The choice of red, while not trendy, is better.

http://members.cox.net/rigelsys/why_red.html

 

[applemacdude]

itll be cool if u can change the color

 

[melchior]

Originally posted by applemacdude
itll be cool if u can change the color

handy with a soldering iron? shouldn't be a problem!

 

[Sol]

Black iPod

Yes, it is black but only in the dark.

By the way, after the 17" PowerBook this is the second Apple product to feature back-lighting. I would like to see this feature implemented in future desktop keyboards as well.

 

[lmalave]

Originally posted by yzedf
Blue kills your night vision. The choice of red, while not trendy, is better.

http://members.cox.net/rigelsys/why_red.html

Why are most backlights light blue instead of pink? Just following convention from the original "Indiglo" watches?

 

[Le Big Mac]

Originally posted by lmalave
Why are most backlights light blue instead of pink? Just following convention from the original "Indiglo" watches?

BEcause more people are red colorblind?

 

[iJon]

man, i cant believe how many people are thinking it will be black. my friend came up to me in excitment telling me this. i thought it would be obvious that the lights are turned off but i guess not.

iJon

 

[icetraxxg5]

Originally posted by iJon
man, i cant believe how many people are thinking it will be black. my friend came up to me in excitment telling me this. i thought it would be obvious that the lights are turned off but i guess not.

iJon

Exactly

 

[iJon]

well all i know is the new boxes are black like the new powerbooks, but no the ipod.

iJon

 

[GigaWire]

in that picture, the ipod kinda reminds me of HAL 9000

 

[Sol]

The HAL iPod

Originally posted by GigaWire
in that picture, the ipod kinda reminds me of HAL 9000

I am sorry Dave, I cannot play that track.

 

[Grimace]

Most backlights are blue because of a lot of scientific research done on what colors would be: visible to the user, and the most visually appealing to the largest cross section of consumers. Indiglo-blue won by a landslide.

 

[evoluzione]

at first glance i thought it was a black iPod, the lighting is very good. i would love to see an iPod that looks like that though, with a kind of black rubberised look to it, very slick. it could of course look extremely tacky but the way Apple do things, it wouldn't be a problem.