Boing Boing Exclusive: Apple iBox prototype left in laundromat

Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader Agger (we slipped him $5,000 in crocheted Steampunk funny money for the leak) reports,

Someone accidentally left this prototype of the new Mac iBox in a laundromat in Italy. What to expect: "The interfaces are fairly intuitive, with a variety of mark-generation potential. Problems: The hue range is limited. The receptive surfaces will be sold separately by third party vendors. And the the gray undo tool isn't compatible with all the rendering devices."

The New Mac iBox (Gurney Journey)

• [heydemann3]

  The battery life is damn near infinite! However, there are still risks for repetitive motion injuries.

• [gabu]

  / SEARCHES ETSY DESPARATELY FOR CROCHETED STEAMPUNK FUNNY MONEY

• [Anonymous]

  Apple stole this concept — I was able to get my hands on a technology called Color Pencils a while ago:
  http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-11-n78.html

• [caipirina]

  where in Italy? Hardly anything cool ever happens here .. but this is pretty funny

• [pjcamp]

  Can’t be from Apple.

  It’s long enough for the pencils to fit.

• [Anonymous]

  Hah. so funny

• [Gilgongo]

  I am a-laughing.

• [mdh]

  I never fully swapped out my graphite stylus anyhow.

• [NegativeK]

  This is outrageous — I can’t believe you’d out the submitter. Have you no decency or care for his career?

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    I just hope we don’t get a subpoenis.

• [Anonymous]

  The ATF are on their way.

• [Sativa Joe]

  This is revolutionary. I’ll be abandoning my laptop, my smartphone, my desktop, and my Nintendo DS.

• [Eric Ragle]

  Seriously? I wouldn’t mind getting hold of some of that funny money.

• [strangefriend]

  Xeni, goddamn it, if BOINGBOING is going to put popups on your webpage, have the common courtesy to put a button you can click to make them go away . . .

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    Simmer down, bub.

    Popups are against our ad policy. Occasionally, and I do mean rarely, one will slip through the ad remnants, but not because we okay’d it.

    If you can, please give us details (via submitterator is very helpful) and screenshot of the ad in question.

    • [oasisob1]

      …and use Firefox with AdBlock.

      • [siliconsunset]

        and noscript!

  • [Dean Putney]

    My apologies. I added some new functionality to Boing Boing’s index page that will alert you to new posts that have been added since you first loaded the page. This will only appear after you’ve been on the page for ten minutes or thirty minutes, and if there is a new post to alert you to.

    I also, boneheadedly, forgot to put a close button. There should be one now.

    Just to be clear to those of you not aware of this, this is not a popup window or an ad. It’s just a little notice that there’s new stuff for you to read. I tried to make it unobtrusive, but perhaps I could have been a little more light in my touch.

  • [devophill]

    I think that might be on you, friend.

  • [Amsterdaam]

    You very may well have some spyware, I’ve never had a popup on boing boing.