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.touchmac

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.”

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Check out more of Harvey’s work at deviantART

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Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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  • Peanut Carver

    What are those antenna-like guys?

  • http://mrcheeses.wordpress.com Dick Palmer

    They’re the side views.

  • Sinister Joe

    Finally! A product for all 167 people interested in tablet computing. Personally I am waiting for a giant sized MacBook Pro. Have you ever seen a giant try to type on a 17″ MBP? It’s not pretty (lots of typos) I’m sure there are at least 167 giants in the world who would buy a 37″ Macbook Pro.

  • http://www.freewebs.com/freeipodt/ William

    Ok, I am in love. This is the coolest concept art ever. I just wish it was real. His mactouch concept art is pretty cool aswell, worth checking out…