Here's one that doesn't happen
very often ever. As bad as we rumor mongers pry and pry to get
inside of ole Steve's brain, sneaking a
peek behind closed Cupertino doors is all but impossible (even for
Mr. Dell). Nevertheless, a clever Mac user got numerous
undercover photographs of the inside workings at an Apple authorized repair center (Flextronics International) in Tennessee. Rather than pulling out any MacGyver-based stunts, he simply wrote a script -- dubbed Walking Study -- that instructed his
MacBook to snap a photo (and upload it to his Flickr account) with the built-in iSight each time it awoke from sleep. When his dear 'Book got sent out for repair, however, the fully-functional webcam continued to perform perfectly within the secretive confines, giving everyone a glimpse of an incredibly average looking warehouse. Although the stealthy camera didn't snap any shots of (potentially) forthcoming
iPhone or
widescreen iPod prototypes, we've got to give credit where it's due -- Toby Mckeys got closer to the
Apple's core than we've seen in quite some time.
[Via
TUAW]
posted Nov 10th 2006 3:58PM
"...dubbed Walking Study.."
Don't you mean WAKING Study?
Umm this has been on TUAW for about 3 days now and all the Flickr images have been blocked. The guy who created the automator app. has it available for download.
Do you have a link for that download?
If nothing else, I salute him for ingenuity.
Apple authorized repair center? SFW.
Old news, and IIRC, the same guy assumed the black person photographed "stole" his RAM. ...Most of the pictures are gone now anyway.
So, this Apple repair center has an unprotected wireless network?
Why would it need any wireless network? When the computer wakes, the startup script snaps a picture and saves it to the HD, and the whnever it finally does have a connection it uploads all the photos.
OMG DON'T YOU GUYS SEE THAT!!!
Apple uses shelves!!!
haha cool.
Only in the world of Apple could a generic repair center turn people on.
Are those pic's of the new 6G video ipod?
Why the hell would a repair center have some super secret iPod stuff? Anyway, I also wonder how it uploaded to his flickr account from there.
I'm also wondering how it ended up getting access to the intarwebs...
Then again, we all know that all Apple's products are made of magic...
dpk its on tuaw.com. i belive you have to edit the script.
Anyone seen the tape? My glasses fell apart again. Dangit!
Good ol' TN ingenuity!!
Awww, my G4 Powerbook doesn't have iSight built-in... I sent mine in for repair and ended up with a minor scratch on the cover and some Vietnamese DVD in the drive... ( http://www.epler.net/ )
I had a similar thing happen. I sent in my Canon camera for repair, and when it cam back, it had photograph's of Canon's repair facility -- obviously the repairman was taking test shots, and forget to erase them from the memory card.
You sent your camera in for repairs and left a memory card in? WTF?
some digital cameras have built in memory
including most if not every sony one.
@general Public
I thought most manufacturers asked for the accessories as well when you send equipment for repair...
@general public
Actually, he said the guy forgot to erase them from the memory card.