Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that leads us to interpret a random image as somehow being informationally significant. It’s why you see Jesus in the char on the face of your morning slice of toast, and it’s why you see Kermit the Frog on Mars.
It’s also why several prominent Apple blogs think they see an S (if they squint) in Apple’s WWDC invite, heralding the arrival, perhaps, of an iPhone 4S. Or it could be a 5, proclaiming the announcement of iOS 5. If you really squint, it even looks a little like an ampersand!
Hey, this is fun. What do you see? As a little bit of pre-WWDC frivolity, tell us in the comments the wackiest thing you see in the pareidolia of the WWDC invite.
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
74 responses to “What Do *You* See In Apple’s WWDC 2011 Invite? [Fun With Pareidolia!]”
It’s a mermaid holding a briefcase.
looks like a 5 but it could be an s
Oh, it’s a Schooner.
if you really squint and get the right angle it looks like the twitter bird…
I just see breasts.
I see a rubber ducky
i see dead people
so may be iPhone 4S or/and iOS 5 ? :-s
I definitely see a bigger hole being burned in my wallet.
Twitter bird…
To all. I think you missed it. It’s a $
For the record: I see Rebecca Romijn as X-Men’s Mystique sinuously bending over to pleasure herself with her own mouth, but that’s just me.
Reminds me of the old joke about a patient visiting his psychiatrist. The shrink was administering the Rohrshach ink blot test. With each new image, the patient responses were something like:
“I see a man and a woman doing it doggie style.”
“That’s a couple having sex in a hammock.”
“Wow! Looks like Caligula was having a wild party”
etc.
The shrink said, “You sure see sex in everything,”
and the patient answered, “Me… you’re the one with all the dirty pictures.”
iOS 5 or is it just a $ sign?
i see chuck norris kick a baby in space while he’s riding a giraf
Wow I stared at it and fainted for about 10 minutes…
I see a grub on an apple :)
(@ @)
Meh u guys must be bored huh…
Does anyone know if WWDC will be covered via live feed like the iPad 2 keynote?
A ying-yang.
Oh, great…. An “S”.. Now I can’t see the vagina anymore!
Hey! There is an apple in the pic!
I looked at the image for a few seconds before I read the article, and I thought for sure it was about the Mickey head that’s clearly visible. Jobs- largest Disney stock holder, way to drop the ball!
I see Da Vinci painting the Gioconda
You dumb bastard. It’s a sailboat! :p
that’s hot
I see “666”.
There’s also a “J” at the right side.
Definately an S for who gives a shit
I see a 5…
Oh John you really need to get better sources. Ones that could tell you that Apple dropping the whole G and S caca from the iphone names. The next phone is merely named iphone 5 and THAT is what the 5 in the invite means.
See they are really going to talk about the iphone 5 hardware at WWDC. They just wanted to make folks think they weren’t so no one would be out trying to hunt down employees that might have a prototype like last year.
However, it won’t be out until October due to the component factories in Japan being destroyed in the earthquake.
(Actually I am talking out of my arse like most bloggers but it sounds good doesn’t it)
i see a bunch of application icons
i see a red dot… :S
oh wait, thats my dead pixel playing hide and seek again!
Damit!
to me it looks like a &
It a 4. If you look to the right of that image there is something that looks like a G there.
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
I saw $