Video of 6G iPod?

My favorite part of this video is that when the guy uses the touch screen, the wheel appears, but nothing happens! No volume bar, no scrub timer... seems questionable.

It's not hard to rotoscope when you're only dealing with 5 seconds of footage.

I think it would be funny if apple wasn't developing the new ipod video and they decided to do develop due to all the hype and rumors that surrounds it.

Wow, what a crappy video. If it's real, why only 3 seconds long? And, like Dan says above, when the screen appears, NOTHING HAPPENS! Unless it was strictly volume control, and it didn't show a volume bar, so that seems unlikely. I'd bet money on this being another fake.

Looks like the wrong color to me. It's a good fake though. If he is scrolling something it does not seem to work as the person on the bike is still moving forward the whole time. I can't here the sound, so not sure that the sound is being tweaked or not

notice once the scroll wheel shows up a white bar drops down from the top of the ipod

notice once the scroll wheel shows up a white bar drops down from the top of the ipod

It does but from what I can see the bar doesn't do anything.

Fake for multiple reasons: 1. this was shot in someone's house, so how the he!! did they get one. 2. the video is very dark. 3. why is it that when the person moves the "click wheel" why isn't there some sort of position or volume slider other than the bar at the top that shows the video title? 4. Why did that bar at the top even come up? 5. why was the video so short, they could have at least showed it off more if it was real. I guess they can't move it around too much when they are superimposing the screen on top of a 5th gen.

So what did scrolling the wheel do? The video didn't speed up or anything. The only thing that happened is an interface pull-down. I believe it's a fake, but it was really well done, so kudos on that.

The screen doesn't react (distortion around the point of contact) when touched.
Also, doesn't Apple usually make white products (at least at first)?
However, that would be a freakin' awesome new iPod.
Nice fake.

I don't see how you guys can be so certain that's a fake. The screen does react when he puts his thumb on it, the controls show up and the top bar drops down.

From a UI standpoint, these rumored designs of the iPod video are just bad. You have to keep in mind that to have a "touch wheel" is fine, but how are you going to access the four other button functions? Will you be able to press down on the screen itself? Doesn't seem likely. Try pressing on the LCD on your laptop or monitor... it's not a pretty picture.

My point is, if Apple is going to implement a touch input for the iPod, it's going to be something we've never even thought of... something groundbreaking.

In this video, the screen does react when touched, however when he scrolls his thumb, nothing further happens. Not to mention the wheel is mis-shaped. There are many things wrong with this video, but mostly it's length. In a 3 second clip, I can show you Bush pimp-slapping Dick Cheney. Anything can be faked with 120 frames of video, it's just not that hard.

I don't think the image was rotoscoped, I think it was chromakeyed (green screened). That would be very, very easy to do. At least, it would be in my estimation.

mariachi77: Dave is talking about the display distorting (press lightly on an LCD display and you'll see what he's talking about).

At least on my iPod screen (5G) there is a layer of plastic on top of the actual LCD so it won't distort anyway. So if this was real, that is probably how it would be.

And yes Apple is known for white devices, but lately they've been producing about as many black iPods as white ones. White is more well known but if this thing is real, I'm sure it will come in black as well.

I think that what I said about the distorting still holds due to the nature of the iPod itself.

Apple's most recent "ClickWheel" works in such a way that you can scroll merely by touch, however if you want to select something you have to push down and complete a physical click.

So with that in mind, I don't think that scrolling with a Virtual Wheel is a problem, but when you want to select, MENU, PLAY FWD and BKWD you couldn't just "tap" on those areas... the interface would interpret that as a "scroll" would it not? Therefore, the user would actually have to press down to complete a button press on the screen itself, and that doesn't seem practical to me.

I could be wrong, but I think that Apple has better ideas of how to implement a touch-based device.