Filed under: Rumors
Time to pick apart another blurry image
Ok, folks, here
we go again. Another blurry, nondescript photo of a supposed Apple product has made its way to the web (and what a
coincidence, just a day after Apple announces a press
event). This time, MacDailyNews is playing
host. An anonymous tipster writes:"I was only able to snap one quick shot of this as I was only in there for about 30 seconds. I sort of stumbled upon it - can't say more about how or why...there are a bunch of ports (and maybe a button or two) neatly arranged on the back (?) of the cube in a line along the bottom edge. It's about 8-inches square and 8-inches tall - a perfect cube. It seems to be made out of a similar material as a Power Mac - aluminum perforated with a round hole pattern, but they're smaller holes than found on a Power Mac. The top is the same material as the sides with the addition of the Apple logo, even though it doesn't look like it in the photo - I had to snap it quick, sorry."
First of all, thirty seconds is a long time to spend taking a single picture. When was the last time you spent a full thirty seconds on a single photo? Plus, if you've got all that time and this killer exclusive, why not get a shot of the ports on the back? And why must all of these things be blurry? Are we the only ones who think this looks like a doctored Apple Design Award? Finally, the Apple logo seems to be missing its leaf. Have at it, Photoshop pros.
And if you think we're going to launch a "Create Your Own Blurry Photo of a Secret Apple Product" contest, you've got another thing coming.
Update: I think Kevin's comment nailed it: You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile! Apple is in league with the Borg!
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Josh said 2:14PM on 2-22-2006
I have a super secret blurry photo of an Odwalla bottle once held by Steve Jobs, and coincidentally there is a super secret yet-to-be released Apple product in the background. It only appears as a silver blur, but trust me, it is was cool! What were the odds!
PS. What if all those inner-lit Apple Design Awards, secretly really were some advanced portless, wireless device that Apple is just waiting to tell everyone about...
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kevin said 2:21PM on 2-22-2006
OH NO!!! It's the BORG!!!
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mrtotes said 2:22PM on 2-22-2006
If that is *supposed* to be the new Mini Media Centre then where's the optical drive? Given the orientation of the Apple logo the drive should be in front of that. Still if/when we see the media centre mini it's bound to be bigger - and to make it a cube would be more stylish - it's going to have to bigger to accommodate a faster/cheaper optical drive and 3.5" hard disk a media centre Mac with a laptop drive would flop in a big way.
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BJ Hicks said 2:22PM on 2-22-2006
I love the passion-- Apple products are cool, but are they so cool that a indescript photo is worth mashing over? Hmmm... maybe they are!
Wanted to serve up a quick link, hope nobody takes this the wrong way, I just respect the opinion of gear heads and first adopters-- anybody use iMusic before? A mate has recommended it, says its getting huge in Asia- http://www.getimusic.com
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Edsel said 2:23PM on 2-22-2006
I'm guessing it's Apple's new 1 terabyte iPod.
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fra said 2:23PM on 2-22-2006
It's an Apple branded cheese grater.
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brian said 2:33PM on 2-22-2006
"indescript" is not a word, but then again, you're just a link spammer so I can't imagine you care.
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Manu said 2:33PM on 2-22-2006
It's the next Mac Mini!!
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George Colombo said 2:34PM on 2-22-2006
Let's suppose you're taking an unathorized picture with your cell phone's camera. If that were the case, then (1) 30 seconds wouldn't be that much time at all and (2) the resulting picture would probably be blurry. I'm not saying that this alleged cube is authentic; I'm just saying that the story is plausible.
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Kyle Brown said 2:34PM on 2-22-2006
I can't really make out very much at all. Kind of makes you wonder why that guy even bothered. How can he expect to convince anyone with that?
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guzman said 2:35PM on 2-22-2006
It looks like the box my 2G iPod came in....
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Kurt Zenisek said 2:46PM on 2-22-2006
Yeah... that's totally a 3D render w/ a blur added on. Examine the scene... it's too perfect. No realism.
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Alasdair Allan said 2:51PM on 2-22-2006
I was pretty much of the opinion that it was a cardboard box spray painted silver, but I suppose it could be a render...
http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/02/rumour-mill-rolls.html
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ChrisW said 2:59PM on 2-22-2006
Yeah, a perfect silver boxlike device arranged neatly on a clean table with a clean background and "30 seconds" to get one crappy pic. Riiiight....
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Jerid Hill said 2:59PM on 2-22-2006
I couldn't imagine Apple ever trying to sell something that big for a media center. With the entertainment centers available today, everything is meant to tuck on a shelf or in a small space. That may be small enough length and width wise but way too tall.
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timbck2 said 3:00PM on 2-22-2006
Yep, my first impression was "that looks like a cube-shaped box like the ones the iPod, iSight, and Mighty Mouse came in".
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John P. said 3:01PM on 2-22-2006
No no no - it's the BoxedLunch Pro. Silly Tuaw, Rumors are for ThinkSecret. :D
http://www.ururk.com/?p=69
(I know, shameless)
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Derek Reiff said 3:02PM on 2-22-2006
Although the link is dead, I seem to have found the source image.... GOOGLE IMAGES
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://somersrental.com/html/rental/tables/thumbnails/2633-Silver-24x24x24-Cube.jpg&imgrefurl=http://somersrental.com/html/rental/tables/index_3.html&h=105&w=102&sz=2&tbnid=2qcUTQMJC-LFIM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=76&hl=en&ei=5sL8Q82oNaaMiAHWo-WbDQ&sig2=xyq1g8DxMFpxEXZVyK3wvw&start=39&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsilver%2Bcube%2Bon%2Btable%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
check it out
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arno said 3:02PM on 2-22-2006
I think guzman is wrong. it only totally looks like the box in which my 1st gen iPod came in.. :)
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icerabbit said 3:11PM on 2-22-2006
So after leaving the cube model, we go back to a cube model?
Fake story. Fake image.
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