Edited by author 10-23-2001 01:40 PM
The "iWalk" is a hoax. SpyMac is a site of imaginary Apple products created by MacLife, a european Mac magazine. Other "products" SpyMac have revealed include the LCD iMac Apple was going to release last MacWorld. They still have a picture of it at http://www.ehlis-design.de/index2.html.

Clues that this is a hoax abound; the specs don't make any sense (eg. 802.11 for roaming music access? The effective range is about 50 m), and the "photo" is obviously PhotoShop (check out the jaggies).

I don't blame MacLife for making this stuff up, but I do blame the Mac advocacy sites for posting this obvious fake as "news".

iHoax

Ipod.

5 gig firewire hard drive that plays mp3s. no mention of price.Whoop de dooooo.

From fastcompany:

It was a clear case of IPOD: IPO Disorder. The post-traumatic stress syndrome of the '90s. Legionnaires' disease of the mind. Leprosy of the credit rating. IPOD usually strikes people under 40 who slave away at groovy startups and then become very rich without actually having any money.

Exhibit A: PotatoWare's office. The place is crowded with people I recognize - Curly Mop and Topknots One and Two, the two Jennifers, the two Matts, the nameless nerds from R&D. They all look as pasty-faced, fat-assed, and overworked as I do - instead of like people who have just gotten a big check from Publishers Clearing House, which is how they should look. A sure sign of IPOD.

It's $350 and weighs close to half a pound. I'd *much* rather spend $350 on a used Kamaka ukulele or a few bound volumes of the Little Lulu Library: http://michelesworld2.net/dmm/lulu/library.htm.

Perverted Ukelele fetishist! How dare you tout the virtues of defunct analog technologies!

Here's a 20 gig hard-drive only with firewire for $179. Not the same thing, but...

http://www.firewiremax.com/firewiredrives.html