Fake: iPhone OS running on large screen

Chauncey Dupree
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June 14, 2009
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Techcrunk points us to a Swedish design firm who have put the iPhone OS on a desktop monitor with accelerometer and multi-touch support. Uh, huh.

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Warwick Brown (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 6:52pm

That looks like a Dell 2405FPW....which begs the question....WHERE THE HELL CAN I GET A TOUCHSCREEN OVERLAY FOR MINE???

Iaian7 (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 12:05pm

I have two of that same monitor on my desk right now. Good solid displays, though I rarely tilt them. :D

noobie (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 6:58pm

it looks legitimate... i don't think it's fake... maybe the accelerometer thing is fake but i guess the rest is plausable!

Mike (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 7:00pm

Looks real to me. All it takes is an emulator, touch screen that can change to vertical (like HP's screens) and some coding skills.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 7:06pm

It's not all that impossible. It could be a hack on the simulator that ships with xcode.

Tom (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 1:30am

I thought the same. When I remember right, the home screen shown in the video has exactly the same icons as the simulator of XCode has. Will check this later today.

Christopher Ward (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 7:18pm

Okay, I'd say doing something like this is POSSIBLE, but I'm not buying this representation. As someone pointed out on the actual video itself, if this is running on a Mac Pro, how are they getting that Apple remote to work? The Mac Pro doesn't have an IR sensor.

So yeah, its possible, but I find this hard to believe.

Trexchard (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 7:35pm

It's not the real firmware, could be emulated. Google is not displayed in the iPhone specific format.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 7:59pm

it's for real - running on the SDK's simulator. Remote is easy done, e.g. with applescript. Many displays have pivot. OR there's an iphone/ipodtouch on the back (or any other accelerometer)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 8:27pm

Its fake, the physics in the photo app dont match. The zooming is relative vs. absolute and the swipe gestures don't match speed wise.

Slantsixx (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 9:01pm

First of all, if that's a real touch screen monitor, where can I get one? Second, where is he pointing that remote? Seems the center of the screen has an IR sensor. All of the moves seem to be well timed and even spaced apart.

mark (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 12:48pm

You don't need to point a remote directly to the IR-Sensor, try it out yourself !!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 9:21pm

BOOB!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 9:24pm

BOOB!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 14, 2009 - 9:48pm

No, it's not the right resolution ratio to be full screen. The art assets for iphone couldn't get up to that resolution and still look clear. Not to mention the lack of touchscreen panel on that monitor, the funkiness with the remote.

Kaostheory777 (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 12:08am

Whilst I believe this to be a fake, even if the monitor does support touch it is unlikely to support multi-touch in the way that the iPhone does.

The (at the time) last comment about the iphone not being able to get up to this Resolution. It would be possible as a normal LCD screen is running at a lower PPI res to the iPhone which runs at around 160ppi. Also this is is a cacky flash video so it would be hard to gauge how pixellated the logos were.

With regard to the remote comment - it doesn't matter where you point - how has he got an apple remote working on a MacPro - it doesn't have IR?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 5:46am

google: Mira and Manta

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 4:15pm

We have a multitouch overlay at work that we've tested on plasma and even projection screens. It's definitely possible, but you'd need a lot of custom drivers.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 5:45am

Fake. iPhone OS is compiled for an ARM processor, not an Intel. He couldn't recompile it from source because it isn't available. More than likely, he has the iphone simulator running at full screen. All the multi-touch trickery is just remapped keyboard shortcuts with an Apple remote, using something like Mira.

Glenn (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 6:40am

this gives a nice feel of using a large screen in this manner and i must say... looks like a very good way to use a big screen this way, i see alot of possibilities if they would ever bring out something like this !

funson (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 10:56am

Isn't the that screen 16.9? the iPhone has a different resolution than that, right?

Iaian7 (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 12:16pm

Correct, the monitor is 16x10 (1920x1200 pixels) and the iPhone is 3x2 (480x320 pixels). The iPhone is essentially still wider-screen than standard def TV (4x3 ratio, 720x480 non-square pixels), but not quite what we'd consider widescreen. Then again, the Dell monitor isn't "really" widescreen either (true HD would be a 16x9 ratio; 1280x720 or 1920x1080 pixels).

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 12:50pm

So, does anyone know which monitor that is? Are there any 24" (or even smaller) widescreen multi-touch monitors with Mac drivers?

Thanks.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 9:42pm

i like the boob part