MacBook Wheel - MacBook With No Keyboard
Mobility Site —
This new innovation can go 19 minutes without a charge. The video sneak peek is below.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Read on for full specs…
Ok, a little humor to brighten up your day. This was just too funny to “not” post.
Source: Onion News
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Onion News Network: Apple's MacBook Wheel [Humor]
Gizmodo —
Oh, Onion News Network! You and your team of reporters never fail to make us laugh with your jabs at Apple. That's a solid 2.5 minutes of funny. [Onion News Network]
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The Onion brilliantly mocks Macworld hype with the “MacBook Wheel”
VentureBeat —
... The satirical news site The Onion has a great video mocking the MacWorld product launch hype with its “MacBook Wheel” computer. This is classic stuff (”predictive sentence technology”), much ...
'Today' Set Held Hostage By Best Gams In The Business
Gawker Comments —
... sober interview with a Palestinian spokesperson by shrieking, "I'm gonna be sick there's Richard Simmons-juice stain on this couch!" Lionsgate is buying TV Guide Network and TV Guide for $255 million; stay tuned for breathless press release announcing their rebranding as The Tyler Perry Network and Madea's Favorite TV Stories . Speaking of magical negros, here's everything you always wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask . Apple unveils the new Macbook Wheel . Ooh, shiny new toys! We want! We want! Sad news : veteran reality show ...
MacBook Wheel revealed by the Onion News Network
Engadget —
... Filed under: Laptops MacBook Wheel revealed by the Onion News Network originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Introducing "MacBook Wheel" The First Laptop With No Keyboard
iPhone Savior —
SAN FRANCISCO - Tech Trends reporter Jeff Tate captured this exclusive footage of the new "MacBook Wheel" direct from the Mac Expo. A single clickwheel replacing the obsolete keyboard is pure brilliance. The new new tag line, "One Button. Endless Possibilities" perfectly addresses what the notebook market has no idea they really need. Apple will once again change the way the world experiences laptop computing. Nothing can be more simple to use than a "single ...
Apple Introduces Macbook Wheel
GEARFUSE —
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard Thank you and goodnight. Link
Is There Some Plum, Oops, I Mean Apple Event Today in San Francisco?
BoomTown —
... Until then, enjoy this very funny spoof video from The Onion about a new Apple sensation that almost seems like it could be made and sold: The Macbook Wheel. ...
Apple ditches the keyboard for the wheel
Newlaunches.com —
At the Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced a revolutionary new laptop which has no keyboard but a wheel to do the typing. A crazy idea which sounds crazier when reported by people at ' The Onion '. ...
'Today' Set Held Hostage By Best Gams In The Business
Gawker Comments —
... interview with a Palestinian spokesperson by shrieking, "I'm gonna be sick there's a Richard Simmons-juice stain on this couch!" Lionsgate is buying TV Guide Network and TV Guide for $255 million; stay tuned for breathless press release announcing their rebranding as The Tyler Perry Network and Madea's Favorite TV Stories . Speaking of magical negros, here's everything you always wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask . Apple unveils the new Macbook Wheel . Ooh, shiny new toys! We want! We want! Sad news : veteran reality show ...
The Apple Wheel: Apple's new keyboard-free laptop
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Just ahead of kick off later today, the reliable Onion Network has a characteristically brilliant report on Apple's new keyboardless laptop. Gotta love them. ...
MacBook Wheel, el nuevo portátil de Apple con una gigante rueda y un botón
Gizmología —
... Vale que hoy sea la keynote de Apple en la Macworld, pero seguramente no podamos ver nunca esta MacBook Wheel.
Otra genial producción de The Onion.
Por cierto, os esperamos en la retansmisión en AppleWeblog Live!, si no vas a estar delante de un ordenador puede seguirlo en su versión móvil.
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ONN reveals Apple’s revolutionary ‘MacBook Wheel’
MacDailyNews —
... Source: The Onion [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention for the heads up.]
Macworld Keynote 2009
Jarrett House North —
... Steve, and Phil will have his own style and his own techniques which I can hopefully also snarf.
Product predictions? I like John Gruber’s, and can lend credence to the iLife prediction because I finally got the most recent version as a Christmas present. Pretty sure there won’t be any new iPhone products announced today though (outside of the iPhone version of Delicious Library).
I’m pretty sure that Apple won’t be announcing the Mac Wheel today, though (hat tip to Chris Eng for the pointer): ...
Live Blog: Previewing the Apple Keynote Speech at Macworld
Bits —
... . And how about that elusive Macintosh laptop with no keyboard ? In short, expectations are set fairly low today. One way Apple could surprise everyone and reap a torrent of fawning press coverage is through an appearance by Mr. Jobs himself. I think it could happen — ...
'Today' Set Held Hostage By Best Gams In The Business
Gawker Comments —
... interview with a Palestinian spokesperson by shrieking, "I'm gonna be sick there's a Richard Simmons-juice stain on this couch!" Lionsgate is buying TV Guide Network and TV Guide for $255 million; stay tuned for breathless press release announcing their rebranding as The Tyler Perry Network and Madea's Favorite TV Stories . Speaking of magical negros, here's everything you always wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask . Apple unveils the new Macbook Wheel . Ooh, shiny new toys! We want! We want! Sad news : veteran reality show ...
The Onion creates MacBook Wheel parody
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... in pop culture, and the latest one from The Onion is particularly funny. The fictional "MacBook Wheel" replaces the traditional keyboard with a large, touch-sensitive scroll wheel. As the Apple representative demonstrates, typing "...couldn't be simpler." Just use the wheel to scroll from letter to letter via an on-screen keyboard, pressing the center button to make a selection. Easy, right? ...
Silly interface design
Core77 —
Macworld starts in about five minutes.
Here's something for you PC-lovers to mock us Mac lovers with:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
via the onion
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The MacBook Wheel!
Internet Evolution: —
... to share, especially since today kicks off MacWorld out in Kal-ee-forn-i-ay. If you're salivating at the prospect of this week's Apple announcements at MacWorld, and are still sad that Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote, well, this video might just be for what ails you.(MacFanBoys, avert your shiny, beady eyes lest you can't take a joke.) Here's the headline leading into the video: "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard." Now, for my headline: " Onion video that makes Apple fan boys look like lemming sycophants who will buy anything that ...
Weekend Vid Picks: Fake MacWorld and Real CES Coverage,
NewTeeVee —
... with this video heralding the announcement of the MacBook Wheel, which went crazy viral in part because many people thought it was a real announcement from the San Francisco-based conference. ...
MacBook Wheel: Apple Replaces Keyboard With One Big Button
Wired: Gadget Lab —
"At Apple our philosophy is to create products that are simple to use. And nothing is more simple than a single, giant button."
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard [the Onion via John Nack]
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MacBook Wheel
TrendsNow —
Après les étonnants modèles présentés dans notre dossier, découvrez une nouvelle approche du clavier sous la forme d'une roue présenté par Apple. Un concept en rupture totale avec les codes actuels du produit qui nous fera définitivement changer nos habitudes !
Bien entendu, c'est un fake réalisé par Onion News Network, mais avouez que l'idée pourrait être intéressante ?
And now a not-so-real Apple concept…
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... my attention to something that tickled me on TheOnion.com - namely the new concept for the MacBook Wheel…
<parody alert!>
Now those of you that don’t go in for tech geek humour are not going to get a lot out of this - but appreciate if you will the effort that has gone in to this - and, the cutting (oh so cutting) humour in it - just awesome. I won’t spoil it with any screen grabs - watch the video!
Check it out here!
[Via: TheOnion.com]
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Apple MacBook Wheel Concept
Mobilewhack.com —
... also has a predictive sentence technology in the works. Yeah, I know, not much you can say there! The new Macbook won’t be out on the market for some 3 to 15 months and will cost between $2,599 and $9,960. And that, my friends, makes it the most expensive Mac product we’ve had here so far. Check the news video above for more details and stay tuned to be the first one to find out when it hits the market! Warning: This is a parody, and it should be treated accordingly. via Onion Tags: ...
Life imitates art: Saturday Night Live predicted new iPod shuffle
Macworld —
... how "thrilled" he was about the new iPod Micro. Holding it in his fingertips, the Micro appears to be not much bigger than a human finger—recall that the new 4G shuffle is about two inches long. The sketch features this golden exchange: Tina Fey: "But we can barely see it." Fake Steve: "Exactly, and that's exciting." We here at MacUser are now expecting the new MacBook Wheel sometime in 2013. [via ...
The headphone shuffle
Macworld —
... : Press it once to play or pause playback; twice to skip forward a track; three times to skip back a track; twice and hold it to scan forward; three times and then hold it to scan backward; once and hold it to tell the shuffle to speak the name of the current song; or once and hold it longer to tell the shuffle to speak the names of playlists, using the volume buttons to “scroll” through the list—press Button again to choose a playlist. (I'm reminded of The Onion’s MacBook Wheel parody: a laptop with no keyboard—just a big Click Wheel.) Apple's new control method raises the ...
iPod Suffle 3rd Gen Review
SlashGear —
... For those of you who poke fun at Apple’s design philosophy, you have some new joke material. Not to be outdone by the single button concept on the iPhone, Apple has created a device with ZERO buttons. The new iPod Shuffle concept might just fool you for an Onion story: no buttons, proprietary headphones, and next you’re going to tell me it talks to me too, right? ...
Silly video: The too-big-for-its-own-good Kindle 9 XXXD
CrunchGear —
... And, for the record, I could have sworn I saw this same concept—examine what a current gadget will look like in the future, to humorous results—on the Onion last year. ...
The Onion Launches Microfiche iPhone App
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... keyboard and hitting the “Publish” button. The Onion has surely ushered in a golden era of electronic journalism since then, and for that we owe them an eternal debt of gratitude.
There’s now a cutting-edge Microfiche Reader for iPhone that lets you share Onion articles via Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail, browse recent and random stories, as well as view video and listen to audio content. Some of my personal favourites include the debate over robots, the Mac Wheel, and the BlackBerry service shutdown infographic. Grab your Microfiche reader ...


