The Onion creates MacBook Wheel parody
There's a great history of Apple parodies in pop culture, and the latest one from The Onion is particularly funny. The fictional "MacBook Wheel" replaces the traditional keyboard with a large, touch-sensitive scroll wheel. As the Apple representative demonstrates, typing "...couldn't be simpler." Just use the wheel to scroll from letter to letter via an on-screen keyboard, pressing the center button to make a selection. Easy, right?You've got to admire the effort that the folks at The Onion put into this, including the posters and set at the Apple "booth," the employee's uniform and the sweet video of the Wheel in action. They've also nailed Apple's typical release schedule, saying that "...The MacBook Wheel won't hit the shelves for another three to fifteen months." Good job, Onion! We noted the vid on Twitter last night but thought you all deserved a look.
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There's a great history of Apple parodies in pop culture, and the latest one from The Onion is particularly funny. The fictional "MacBook...
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Whoaâ¦this is definitely revolutionary but Iâm not sure if itâll catch on. Ditching the keyboard could be a great space saver and make for ultra light portable laptops but Iâm not sure the additional â100 clicksâ is worth the loss of a laptops primary source of input (the trusty keyboard). The keyboard is tried and tested and I dont think its time to lose it. Like another poster mentioned, maybe its best to introduce a smaller âWheelâ alongside the regular keyboard and break us all in gently.
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I'm just a few hundred clicks away from buying this wonderful nightmare machine.
January 11 2009 at 7:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHA! ...anyone read the scrolling text at the bottom? The first three are funny!!
January 07 2009 at 12:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythis was hilarious...i loved it...and thank you for bring it to me TUAW...
dont listen to that meany head that was putting you down...
some people just live on their computers every min of every day...
oh thats me...and i didnt see that anywhere else...lol
love you TUAW
At the rate Apple is going by 2011 this will be a reality.
January 06 2009 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"...virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit"
January 06 2009 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI thought this was hilarious. On a different note, I watched this last night and this morning - well before TUAW posted this article. I come to TUAW for good mac-centric information. Why is it though that TUAW seems to be always (or nearly always) late to the game. Engadget, your sister site, posts these things well before you. I'm not complaining, I'm trying to provide some constructive criticism for TUAW's benefit. I'm worried that one of my favorite sites will lose readers to other sites that provide news and information more quickly. If that happens, especially in these troubled times, I expect TUAW will suffer greatly. I don't want this.
Unfortunately, I do not have any idea about your current business model, your business organization, staffing, or resources so I cannot provide any reasonable suggestions for curing this problem. Instead, I want to make sure that you, TUAW, are aware of this problem so that you, having the most information to correct the problem, can do so.
One small detail of that parody that I think is actually an awesome idea is being able to touch a key and bring up a row of special characters using that key.
January 06 2009 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyit is actually an existing iphone feature. Usefull for accented languages specially
January 06 2009 at 6:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy favorite moment: "Everything is just a few hundred clicks away".
January 06 2009 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWOW. that was awesome, they nailed everything- even the quotes at the bottom saying sjobs thinks keyboards are holding back human progress. ROFL
holding down both sides of the button and clicking the middle? ahahahah
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