Apple Concepts: Touch Pad, Mac mini, Mac touch

Here’s an interesting concept for an Apple product by San Francisco artist Benjamin Harvey.

From his artist’s notes: “instead of creating a full-fledged touch-capable Mac, I devised a touch input device that would be wirelessly paired to any Mac on your local network. the most ideal of situations would be to pair it with my redesigned version of the Mac mini, which doesn’t come packaged with peripherals…like a giant iPod touch, the TouchPad supports multi-touch, an on-screen keyboard, and some streamlined OSX interface adjustments optimized for media, document processing, web browsing, and instant messaging. there’s an iSight built in for iChat and Photo Booth that allows you to touch the screen to manipulate photos.

Follow after the jump for more of Harvey’s Apple concept art.

Here’s the first touchscreen Mac. Harvey says, “I designed the product from all angles (the back is absent from this page) and set it up on a layout typical to apple.com. Down below there’s also a sloppily thrown together iPhone ][ in a (PRODUCT)RED advert and spliced into Steve Jobs’ hand.”

Check out more of Harvey’s work at deviantART

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