Actual Proof of New iPod's Existance?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:04 AM EST

Article Source: hrmpf.com

technology, music, apple, ipod, mp3, mp3-player, touchscreen, scroll-wheel

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Here is an image of a patent taken out on February 2, 2006 of what the new interface of the next iPod probably is.

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Nick Ford

Existence?

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#1 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:24 AM EST

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Smaran

Existence?

yes ofcourse... the poor bugger forgot to hit spellcheck, happens all the time.
I got his link via digg.com I think.

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#2 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:06 AM EST

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-=D3_V_US=-

Buy an Ipod...feed the monster!

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#3 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:22 AM EST

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timtimmy

It kinda looks like the screen is cracking when you push the center of the scroll wheel.

Anyways, I wonder if they will somehow let the screen give tactile feed back (a little physical click when you push on it).

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#4 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:58 AM EST

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Vesper

Looks more like talk of a tablet Mac than an iPod. iPhoto wouldn't be on an iPod, just OS X.

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#5 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:48 AM EST

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Blake Helms

If it was not already obvious, it's fake. I checked the US Patent Office. Also do you really think that a company that is based on their beautiful design and interfaces would submit something so cheesy?

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#6 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:59 AM EST

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David Gottfried

Blake, maybe you didn't check hard enough: U.S. Patent Application 20060026535. At the bottom of the page, click the images button. There's 72 pages in that section, and you'll notice on the first page, if you scroll around a bit, some of those images included in the link above. So, unless somehow someone hacked the U.S. Patent office, and posted an "obvious" fake, this is legit.

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#7 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:30 PM EST

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Joseph Abrahamson

There's a difference between a patent and an actual implementation of a product, I would think. Especially for such an innovative company. One thing seems more and more believable though: Apple is looking at touch screens.

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#8 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:09 PM EST

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bret

people patent things all the time, that doesn't mean its going to be a actual physical product. Patents also can take a long time to go through. But this seems to be the big thing on the net right now, and touch screen ipod.

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#9 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:49 PM EST

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Patrick Yan

THERE ARE LIKE 500 NEWSVINE SEED WITH THIS PICTURE WAGGH!!!

how will newsvine deal with duplicates -_-;;

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#10 - Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:23 PM EST

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lseeley

Yeah, I thought I spelt existence incorrectly, Safari usually picks up on that. Maybe Newsvine could implement a spell checker in the seeding pop-up window. OR. Maybe all keyboards should have built in spell check...

... As or for dupes. I thought Newsvine was doing a good job with their seeding pop-up window letting you know if the site you are about to seed has already been linked to. I guess a lot of people don't use that button they provide for you to drag into your browser bookmarks.

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#11 - Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:42 AM EST

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