seeds of destiny

apple products that should or will exist in 3-5 years, in approximate order of probable release.

isaac - an ipod touch the size of the newton, with macbook specs under the hood, for a more usable portable computer. runs full os-x, not the iphone edition. widescreen or portrait, with multitouch thumb navigation, virtual keyboard, and digital pen for precision input. intended for artists on the go, it’s water-resistant so you can use it outside in bad weather.

imac touch and macbook touch - desklamp style imac and laptop with multitouch displays. includes cleaning kit.

iphone flip - on the outside it’s basically the same, but open it up on the long side, and you reveal dual-touch; two more multi-touch widescreen displays on either half of the clamshell. hold it like a book for the best possible e-reader. hold it like a tiny laptop for a virtual thumboard that doesn’t compete with the widescreen display. runs full featured opera with flash and everything, includes new iphone app ‘fingerpaint’ for use with the dual screens acting as one large display.

mac mobil - an imac touch tablet that’s removable from the display stand. comes standard with wireless keyboard and mouse, but with wifi and multitouch screen, you’ve got a virtual keyboard and direct control at all times anyways. essentially a gigantic iphone that will run leopard and photoshop.

darwin - fusion of the isaac, iphone, and mac mobil. a newton-sized multitouch tablet with desktop specs, integrated wifi and cellular modems, and a removable bluetooth handset for making calls. runs full os, uses gps to customize mac maps with your own route information, transit time, food and shopping, and so on.

voyager - a darwin that hinges open into a small dual-touch laptop, making it all the electronic devices you’ll ever need on the go. upgrades the bluetooth handset with a digital camera, letting you tag images with gps to add them to your personal maps, and to the google cloud, turning street view into a real-time group effort.

mac monolith - an imac touch the size of a door or a tabletop, which can be wall-mounted, freestanding, table-mounted, or what-have-you. a wide-angle camera lets you set the monolith to window mode, which sends and receives a 3d head-tracking signal to the primary user on either end. you can also set just a static video feed for group conferences or parties. feeds into google vision which has static and wide-angle cameras set up all over the damn world.