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Agreed this could easily be an updated version of the Apple Design Award.

Believe me... I want this to be true as well. Half our staff here wants a media center based Mac (optical audio, dvd capability, built-in airport, etc..)!

Those are not holes.. that is most definitely a texture.

http://static.flickr.com/2/1462418_8567064e51.jpg

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/images/awards/appledesignaward.png

Here is an older one:
http://www.videolan.org/events/20030625/DSCN0783.JPG

Just remember, there are six sides to every cube story.

What is real anyway?

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IT'S A COMPLETE HOAX. It's not a photograph. It's a 3D solid model ray-tracing that was blurred in Photoshop. I'm 95% sure. I've made better looking stuff many times.

Yeah... that's definately a 3d render... flat out

Alright... I'm in the room with desirable new Apple hardware shaped like a cube, and I have 30 seconds to snap a blurry photo.

Is it just me, or would any idiot have normally shot the side with the ports?

Horribly horribly dubious.

Hmmm....

A "media cube" without a CD or DVD drive?

Juz Wacky,
The text says "I only got about half a sec to look around back - there are a bunch of ports (and maybe a button or two) neatly arranged on the back."

I think it's Apple branded toilet paper in nice packaging.

Definitely not a render, just a really, really bad photoshop.
silver cube on table on google images will get you an answer at the bottom of page two..
thanks,
bye,
derek

So do you think the original on Google Images isn't a 3D rendering?

Outside of the fact there is evidence it's rendered or Photoshopped, those of you claiming it's not a cube because of distorted sides are wrong. A wide-angle lens taking a close-up picture of straight lines does distort the lines. It's called barrel distortion.

Further photography poseury shall not be accepted in this thread!

http://developer.apple.com/ada/

check the upper right corner.

Apple would never release a product with such sharp corners. It doesn't fit in with the soft edge design of imac and ipod. tip to the posers: round off the edges and it would be more convincing.

Here's another shot of it: http://www.mekentosj.com/events/wwdc04/Pages/IMG_5994.html

"I think it's Apple branded toilet paper in nice packaging."

The iPoo?

For those of you getting riled up, try some decaf.

IT'S NOT A BLOODY APPLE DESIGN AWARD! FOR GOD'S SAKES!!

The logo is much smaller for starters, and the Apple Design Awards do not have a dotted pattern, like the G5 cases.

God damn, grow a brain.

i wish it were real but i believe its a fake because the shadow is casting on the right of the box .. but the front is brighter :\

It's a jack-in-the-box by Apple called a Steve-in-the-cube. Press the apple logo and a springy avant garde synthetic rubber Steve Jobs pops out flipping the bird while a built-in iPod plays a stirring rendition of Steve J singing

I'm the greatest!
I believe my own PR
I'm the greatest!
I believe my own BS.

&c;to the tune of "You're the greatest"

The thing in this blurry picture looks more like Bigfoot than an Apple product.

It would have been more believable if he had said "this is the box that some new Apple product is shipping in."

worst fake i've ever seen.

It's not a fake . . . it's just a box!

But what's inside . . .

Yea this is a terrible fake. I can't believe these people actually put these out, what a waste of all our time.

It's fake. The logo is too small proportionally (look at all apple products and you will see) and is not centered on the top.

That's what was bothering me! No reflection of the cube onto polished wood table. Doh! I've been out of the art biz too long. >sniff<

And yes, it does perfectly match the googled image as Dereck points out.

or was that Derek?

sorry

It's the new Apple iMagulliblef00l

I've been in the staging room (where this cube-like object would most likely reside right now.) That picture was NOT shot in that room. It's too pristine. The staging room is more like a warehouse.

Definitely a fake.

Looks to me to be more like the award given for Design recognition for Apple Developers.

See them at http://developer.apple.com/ada/

Its a paraplegic kitten hiding inside an Apple box waiting to pounce on unsuspecting Appleites.

Never, NEVER understimate the killing potential of a paraplegic kitten.

@ Anim8r

You're a moron. I would fail you. You can't make a box in Maya? Are you in a beginner's course? I hope you're not teaching. Maybe that will explain the crappy effects in movies lately. ANYBODY can make an aluminum box in 3D - and render it out using some weird lens or depth filter. The burl wood is a 3D material in Cinema 4D, which is what I think this looks like it was rendered in. The raytracer handles a blown-out omni light the same way as in the "photo". The perforated texture - or a better word would be etching - can be mapped quite easy - or even applied in photoshop after rendering - not to hard to do on a BOX.

Just because a little 'tween like yourself has a cracked version of Maya, doesn't make you an "expert". Get a clue.

Horrible! 30 seconds in Maya could produce a better fake!

Its simply a parabox.

All I can say is that for so many "experts" here on both sides of the fake vs. real photo of SOMETHING, about half of you are WRONG.

I hope it is real, but I can wait a week.

It's a Pedestal, check out
http://somersrental.com/html/rental/silver-chrome/pages/2633-silver-cube-pedestal.html
you can call it an iPedestal if you want, but the logo was just photoshopped on it, or someone put a sticker on it you get with a new iPod.
Not a fake picture, just a fake product
unless apple will start a brand of iFurniture

My vote is with the idea that it could just be an Apple Design Award.

This is a fake, and we need look no further than the apple logo. The bottom is dicproportionate to the top. It was poorly photoshopped on. It's easy enough to see.

hey we can never tell!

btw, to the first person that posted a message. You mean strongbad as in Homestarrunner.com? :D