Apple needs to have an LCD panel on the iMac that is a window to the components behind it when "off" and when "on" is a standard LCD monitor. Don't bother me with geeky details of why this cannot be done - surely Steve can whip his engineers until they make it happen. #imacinternalswallpaper
@Monty: This is false advertising. I tried this lovely picture as my background and while it looks pretty it still did not turn my Thinkpad into an iMac. Oh, and a word of advice, licking your carpet all day long will not necessarily turn you into a ... Once again, more false advertising. #imacinternalswallpaper
@Software_Goddess: I have a brilliant plan involving hacking a Wii remote that tracks your head motion. Then you convert this image into a depth-cued bitmap that tracks the Z buffer depth relative to the horizontal motion and location of the Wii headtracker. Voila, 3D! The only problem is I'm just an artist and thinker... don't know how to hack Wii remote or program that sort of stuff. #imacinternalswallpaper
@Passa: Ideally, with some clever modding, it could be made to look slightly less dorky than that... but, honestly, the novelty would be so worth it that I wouldn't care. It'd be neat to look around corners in FPS games, too. And just think, no special glasses or monitor required! :) #imacinternalswallpaper
@met2art: don't see how it'd work though. You can't get 3D from a monitor without having two image sources offset in just the right way. theaters playing 3D movies have dual projectors, and polarized glasses only let light through at certain angles to have a different angle for each eye. 3D Monitors use two display panels layered on top of each other, with the polarized glasses to separate each layer for each eye. Shutter glasses use a single monitor, but require software to render each frame differently, and a device to time shutter movements with frame position. #imacinternalswallpaper
@met2art: Actually Johnny lee's done tests to use the wiimotes to track led lights This video demonstrates almost exactly what you're talking about: #imacinternalswallpaper
@met2art: Google "wiimote head tracking". There's this guy who actually had the Wiimote at his computer and wore a pair of sunglasses with IR LEDs on the sides. #imacinternalswallpaper
@ElementalDragon: The idea is that by tracking head movements, you render the frames based on the difference in parallax view. So, as you turn your head left, the tracker registers this and renders the view from that perspective, as though you're looking from the side. A combination of head tracking and rotation would do the trick. It's not "true" 3D, but it would provide a level of immersive viewing to see around objects rendered in a 3D space with Z-buffer depth cueing. The technology already exists, I was just thinking up cheap ways to do it. As it so often turns out, some really clever and capable dude already did it. :) #imacinternalswallpaper
@mmmiles: Facial recognition would be great. There are some similar Windows programs that could do the trick. Also, there are some Windows programs that use a live webcam stream as the "video" wallpaper that could be possibly integrated to achieve this effect on the desktop to interesting effect. #imacinternalswallpaper
@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: These are better though.. works on wider angle compared to wall behind monitor ones as the circuits are supposed to be close to the screen..
It looks almost exactly like the insides of the macbook pros. Now it looks like the only difference between the pro line and the macbook line is the case, and the inside components. #unibodymacbookteardown
@KTK1990: i believe this one may also have the 'lower-quality' screen. the color gamut, and overall quality of the screen (even on the 13 in) is increased in the pro line. #unibodymacbookteardown
@back_at_it: The previous model of white Macbook had a shitty screen, even when compared to the lower quality version in the aluminum models. So even still, it's a step up, even if not all the way there. #unibodymacbookteardown
@Kaiser-Machead: Compared to the new one, yes, definitely. And RIP FireWire. Shouldn't there be space on this young MacBook for it now? #unibodymacbookteardown
@Kaiser-Machead: that's very true, and as the previous owner of one of a merom based macbook i can attest to how bad those screens were in comparison to what exists now. my point was merely that this would be a noticeable (presumably only to some) differentiating factor between the mb and mbp (besides the case, and 'innards'). #unibodymacbookteardown
Well, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this... it could also be tha fact that if they included a cam on the 'touch, their iphone sales might have gone down. Because thinking about it, the camera was the thing that made me buy an iphone over a ipod touch. The fact it was a phone-inconsequential, but, the camera (+ speakers + mic) really made it feel like a superior device. ATT probably throws some pennies their way also...
Yep, about what I expected. More and more the evidence is pointing to the fact that there was supposed to be a camera but it wasn't good enough for a release.
Giz may call it a rumor that didn't pan out but I call it a rumor that did.
It was supposed to have a camers, camera didn't work, so the slapped an old cover (sans camera hole) on the back and called it good.
Fully expect a mid-line up change for the touch. If your looking at the touch, wait the two months its going to take to get the camera models out. Don't buy the place keeper then bitch when the new one is released.
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whoa... nice circuits!! #imacinternalswallpaper
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EVERYONE knows that computers are powered by rodents on wheels.
(or smoke)
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I am so making one!
I have dark green plastic. I have a soldering iron.
Super-computer here I come!! #imacinternalswallpaper
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If only it were in 3D. #imacinternalswallpaper
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Though your idea does sound cool :P #imacinternalswallpaper
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[johnnylee.net] #imacinternalswallpaper
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I can't think of any reason you couldn't do this - although the desktop background can't be animated currently.
I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of passive dynamic art becomes popular in the next few years (including on websites and such).
[the wiimote is just a dumb IR receiver, in itself it doesn't do any real tracking, it's all in the software]
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And who wanna look at the wall when u can look at circuits! #imacinternalswallpaper
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Also, typing "Kaiser Machead" into Firefox's "awesomebar" brought up this :P
[www.flickr.com] #unibodymacbookteardown
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Giz may call it a rumor that didn't pan out but I call it a rumor that did.
It was supposed to have a camers, camera didn't work, so the slapped an old cover (sans camera hole) on the back and called it good.
Fully expect a mid-line up change for the touch. If your looking at the touch, wait the two months its going to take to get the camera models out. Don't buy the place keeper then bitch when the new one is released.
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My sentiments.