Not surprisingly at all (except to us, who said "this does look a bit promising" when we first saw it), the
purported
video iPod picture
that has been circulating for the last few days has turned out to be a complete and total hoax. We say this with such
certainty because the individual who 'shopped up the little wonder has thoughtfully released a video documenting how
the entire project was pulled off. Aside from being a great mini-Photoshop tutorial, the video makes it clear that this
"video iPod" is nothing more than a 5G 'pod photographed twice at 180 degree rotations and touched up a bit
for color uniformity. On a similar note, we've gotten word that the
creator of the infamous "
iPod boombox" mockup
will reveal his methods and considerable skills in a three-hour "making of" documentary hosted by Sam
Waterston and Ryan Seacrest.
[Via
Zatz Not Funny, thanks to everyone who
sent this in]
UPDATE: A few commenters have pointed out that there are some interesting
discrepancies between the video and the image it is supposedly exposing as a fake. Could the video exposing the fake
itself be fake? Is someone out there hoaxing the hoax? This is all getting
way too meta...
posted February 26th 2006 7:30PM
Each time someone pulls of a great pre-Jobsnote hoax. Recollect last year's iHome? As a result it's all part of the fun.
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I think the point of the video was not to show how the hoax was made but how simple a hoax like that would be to make.
The guy admitted he made it on a dutch forum the reason the signature etc. was different was becuase he was just scribbling stuff.
Maybe it was Apple trying to cover up a leak?
:) verry funny, what can I say...