Mar 3 2008Curved iMac Concept Is Curved, Conceptual
The iMac iView is a conceptual product design by Nuno Teixeira. As you can see it's a curved iMac. It looks incredibly similar to a bad idea. But it does have one saving grace - a second screen on the back (picture after the jump). That way your office wall (long left out of computing activities) can feel included in the experience. Or if your computer doesn't back up to a wall, then it provides a great way for your coworkers to know just what porn/non-work related sites you visit all day long. Awesome, I know. But seriously, I think many of you just don't understand the usefulness of this monitor for someone like me -- someone with EYES IN THE BACK OF THEIR HEAD. What do you mean that wouldn't help me see the monitor? Sure it would. The monitor has another screen on the back and my head has eyes on the back. Thusly, according to my most recent scientific calculations, I'm a stupid asshat.
Picture of the back after the jump.
Curved iMac concept bends beyond the realm of plausibility [engadget]
Thanks to aBRAHAM, whose awesomeness is biblical, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. first - March 3, 2008 10:24 AM
its curved like my junk
2. damn luddites - March 3, 2008 10:26 AM
that's odd. my junk curves to the other side
3. second - March 3, 2008 10:26 AM
the screen on the back is small...like my junk.
4. alberto riezgo - March 3, 2008 10:41 AM
Gorgeous, yes. Conceptual. Far from it. Alienware created the Alienware Curve not too long ago and featured it at CES, so the idea's been around for a while, though apple made it beautiful as always. I fucking hate apple, for their snooty, pretentious attitude, AND users, but love their designers...they're brilliant. Too bad i dispise the majority of apple users with the burning intensity of a thousand dessert suns. Fuck you and your jeans and black tees.
5. ShitBitch Carl - March 3, 2008 10:43 AM
I wish my junk was double sided.
I keep it in boxes.
6. damn luddites - March 3, 2008 10:45 AM
@second - you have a screen on the back of your junk?
@alberto - is that a typo? did you mean "desert suns", or perhaps "dessert sundays"? or is there such a thing as "dessert sun" and where can I get one? are they tasty?
7. butterbee - March 3, 2008 11:28 AM
the fixed curve dictates the one distance you're allowed to sit. flexible would be more functional.
8. Jeezy - March 3, 2008 11:45 AM
What's the deal with these "concept" products we're always seeing? All it really does is show us that somebody who doesn't work for Apple can make a fake Apple-inspired product image/rendering. I could make some realistic-looking flying car in Photoshop, slap a logo on it and call it a "concept", but what does that prove?
Also, I'm sour because damn luddites stole my dessert joke...
9. damn luddites - March 3, 2008 12:07 PM
@Jeezy - sorry about that, but you snooze, you lose.
perhaps some sort of sour grapes dessert sun? with spilt milk on the side
10. cc - March 3, 2008 12:29 PM
i dont see a problem with the curved screen, in fact i think it's very useful, it allows more screen revenue in a smaller space. anything wrong with that?
11. jcastanza - March 3, 2008 1:07 PM
You know what you don't see enough of? Conceptual ROUND screens. That's right, a totally circular LCD display. That would come in handy.
12. Edeath - March 3, 2008 1:24 PM
People need to stop crying over "conceptual" - I thought kitschy and non-ergonomic crap was the point of this site! You're doing fine, superfish/geekazoid
13. guate6 - March 3, 2008 1:30 PM
#4: I'm pretty sure that curved screen from CES was already posted here a while ago. I agree with luddites on this.
Anyway, here's something interesting some people who are against posting concepts on here haven't figured out. See...most (not all, but most) companies who make "concepts" actually have a concept model. Take cars for instance, before making production models, there are concept models made (sometimes only one, (like Bumblebee in Transformers...at the time of shooting it was the only concept version of that car).
So if we're looking at a concept, it isn't always a shopped image, it could very well be the real product, but still only in concept stage. Like the Aerial Atom. It was a concept for a long time before they began producing them. And the Writespeed X1 is still a concept, but they made a model (video proof).
I think it's neat but for me, it would serve no purpose.
14. farming cacti - March 3, 2008 3:10 PM
It's conceptual because it isn't made by apple, just something they designed. Conceptual doesn't have to mean that no one has made anything similar
15. Jeezy - March 3, 2008 3:29 PM
No no no... you people have it all wrong. I'm not against "conceptual" ideas or prototypes or whatever else a company wants to show us to get us excited. But this "Nuno Teixeira" guy has nothing to do with Apple. He isn't an Apple employee, he isn't contracted by them to design this, he's just some guy who's good at designing or drawing or rendering 3D images. Apple isn't going to make this product.
16. guate6 - March 3, 2008 3:54 PM
#15: Ah, now I get it. In that case, it's a neat render...he should sell it to Apple.
17. Amy - March 3, 2008 6:07 PM
I seriously don't get the screen on the back though. Is it like how rap stars put TVs on the back of the rear most seats of their car so that the poor people on the road can see them?
18. SlowMonkey - March 3, 2008 7:11 PM
@17 - it's Shades of Big Brother. With the screen on the back, the Thought Police can monitor what several people in a classroom or workspace are viewing and decide if it is allowed.
I'll buy the first round of Government Gin.
19. mercedes von uppity - March 4, 2008 11:10 AM
seriously #4? THAT's where you're going to waste your energies? By hating people with a particular computer? You're convinced that people who buy Macs are snooty assholes? I know there are a lt of annoying Mac-heads but you can't really hate all people who like things that 1) look nice and 2) work well.
Should we buy things that are less attrative and break a lot? Does that make us nice people? Relax. It's just a computer dude.