Wireless USB hub (brick?) to hit MacBooks next month?

it is a fake picture

if you look at the picture closely, you will notice, that in the dock, adobe photoshop is running, and also that a highlighted item on the desktop after you just clicked it is the same picture of what seems to be displayed on the screen minus the itunes window.

What's the browser?

Notice how the application name is not only cut off in the shot, but if it was there it would actually be iTunes, because that's frontmost. iTunes is also covering up the name of the window, Also there are a number of minor imperfections:
• There is no http://
• In the search bar there is the Google logo, not just the text "Google"
• The SnapBack icon has a different background as the rest of the URL bar
• There is no Favicon, although that could be because the site is not live yet, assuming it exists
• The icons in the toolbar buttons are not rotated correctly
• To me it seems like the top navigation bar is too wide
• The USB plug is much bigger that real life if the computer and the brick are shown proportionately, and if they aren't that's a really tiny brick
• There's no hinge between the body of the computer and the screen, they would just fall apart
• This might be nitpicking, but shouldn't "Lighter than" be in thin font and "Air" in thick? Your words say that the former is lighter, but the look says that the latter is lighter. I think Apple's designers would pick up on that.

"The Brick" Image

The image is photoshopped. they guy didn't even bother to close photoshop (as you can see in the dock) before he took the picture. I like the speculation though. All the ideas are great. I am personally looking for a mac tablet.

display dock

me, i'm hoping and guessing for the patented dock/display, where you slide your mb or mpb in the side of a monitor/dock-like device. Wouldn't a display with a mouse and keyboard attached, but totally useless unless you slip in the hardware, qualify as ... 'bricked'?

Let me know, what you think,

R

WIRELESS POWER, Not Just Wireless

I think there is a good chance that this is real.

But if you look at the picture, it looks like the "brick" might be delivering not just wireless USB capabilities, but WIRELESS POWER as well!

It would be really exciting if it did, especially if they released other products (e.g. - a wireless keyboard, mouse, tablet, etc.) that got power from the brick, and allowed third parties to create hardware that got power from the brick.


Talking about devices having "wireless power" used to be a common joke about companies who over-hype things, but here are a few interesting links.

The last link is more recent news about intel's wireless power work using the magnetic field instead of the electric field, which they claim is more safe (cached version - the original appears to be gone).


http://www.ecoupled.com/technologyTech.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer

http://news.cnet.com/Wireless-power-gets-recharged/2100-1041_3-6147684.html

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:MW3Rutq6N_0J:news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_afp/usitinternetenergychipcompanyintel+wireless+power+magnetic&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Bad Link Seth

After clicking on the "new displays can be plugged in via USB" link in your article, I received a "HTTP Adobe SWF Remote Code Exec" warning from my virus scanner.

You may want to check out the link you used in this post!

also note that "penny lane",

also note that "penny lane", album "one" is playing on iTunes! Does that mean the Beatles will finally be available? ;)
also: the URL is "staging.apple.com", but leads to nothing

The Beetles

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2864409466_1c9936628d_o.jpg

judging by this picture - if

judging by this picture - if its real - its a wireless power adapter (induction?)