What do we have here?

Seth Weintraub
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May 17, 2009
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Sorry all. Publicity stunt by Sascha Hoehne, who uploaded this image to yFrog using his Twitter account from his iPhone.  Looks like it is his icon artwork:.

via @avivhadar

 

 

 

 

Comments (13)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:41pm

This is a fake uploaded on purpose to stir up more free advertising for Apple. Jobs is a marketing genius.

Jordan (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:45pm

Could it be a sneak preview of his new icon set called Minimum? You can see Minimum on his deviant art account (http://rade8.deviantart.com/) and his personal website has M2 showing as a teaser/splash. It at least looks like the folder icon.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:45pm

Most people will say iTablet... but it could be the next iPhone ;)

MLADENZ (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:45pm

Dude, next time make a picture of the whole thing..
Saves us a lot of time thinking what this could be...

anyway, what can this be? Can't be the new iphone...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:47pm

Hahahah.. that kinda looks like Minium 2, and not some hardware. haha ;-)

MLADENZ (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:49pm

http://RADE8.deviantart.com/art/MINIUM-15118664

The first icon.

Steve Jobs (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 4:52pm

Agreed. Sascha is no idiot, and he likes his job, so he's not going to be posting pictures of upcoming products. Plus, Apple is notorious for keeping one hand from knowing what the other is doing. Most of the iPhone software development team had never seen the hardware until it debuted during the keynote speech, and vice versa for the hardware team seeing the software. There's no way that Sascha, as a UI designer, would have seen any new-product hardware that would be coming out this summer or later.

This is Minium, plain and simple. I'm sure that MacThemes has already figured this out...

Some guy (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 5:06pm

This is a photo of a physical object.
The photo was taken with an iPhone.
Few icon designers carve their prototype icons out of metal and plastic.

Jaryd (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 5:20pm

Agreed. Everyone is shooting this down quickly with out considering the fact that it really does look like a physical object.

Isn't it possible that he made the icons for his set to resemble upcoming hardware? Doubtful, but maybe that is where he got his inspiration.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 18, 2009 - 1:47am

You can take pictures of your computer screen, can't you?

someone (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 5:22pm

The picture was taken in an hospital near Hamburg.
So now guess.....

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 7:20pm

Huh?

Ava Rice (not verified) | May 17, 2009 - 8:00pm

Part of his cigarette lighter ...