Frankly, I’ve never been a big Starbucks fan, so I’ve never gotten the addiction to their coffees that so many others have. However, there are plenty that can’t get enough of Starbucks and anything that makes the lines shorter and the customers less tempermental is a great idea.

I’m sure any cashier would agree, the less people you have to take care of during a rush the better. No matter how complicated your coffee you can pick and choose if you want milk and all kinds of other additions you like in your coffee. You can also save your favorite style of coffee and just select it and pay for it right then on your iPhone or iPod Touch. However, this is just an artists rendering as to what it could be like. Keep in mind there is nothing all that official about this, just a great possibility to hope for.

[via newlaunches]

“[T]he Keyboard Wireless Dock connects to the dock using Wireless USB. It also has a bigger hard drive, some sort of DVD player/burner, inputs for your USB and Firewire devices. The whole keyboard part itself is used as a large multitouch track pad. Since the keys need to be depressed when hit, you can do lighter touches as you move across the whole thing” Design’s creator

Could such a device be on the cards for Macworld on the 15th?  Given Apple’s notoriously tight-lipped attitude to new products, it’ll have to be a case of waiting and seeing. 

Flickr [via SlashGear]

They even supposition the idea of up to a 64GB SSD, sure, that sounds great, but right now that would push this device into the same price range as the larger MacBook Pro’s maybe even higher. Personally I think a device with about half that storage, but a larger multi-touch screen, a faster processor and some dedicated system RAM as well as more ports and a fuller version of OS X would be great.

It wouldn’t have to be a full on tablet, just something closer to an actual Mac with a more fully featured OS would be great. Regardless of what I think, I regard Apple as the knowledgeable authority on multi-touch technology and great mobile design, so I trust that when the time comes they will make their tablet the best that it can be.

Is this the Apple Tablet? Check out the iPad Touch concept [via techdigest]

The iRing would connect to your iPhone via Bluetooth, and I assume this design counts on an adapter for iPod integration or counts on the upcoming iPod Touch to have Bluetooth built in, which really wouldn’t be much of a stretch. There is an OLED status display; the ring rotates for volume control too.

The Apple logo on the top isn’t completely functionless either, when you tap it, it acts as a play/pause button and then to the immediate left and right of the Apple logo are the skip and rewind buttons. It would come with its own charger and the battery contained within would theoretically last for up to 2 days. Its only a design though, so no price, and possibly no availability, but it looks great.

Concept – The iRing – Controls Your iPod and iPhone [via gadgettastic]

The other is of, what looks like, an iPod Touch advertisement which shows the new iPod to essentially be what was predicted, an iPhone without the phone capabilities. The poster has a frame from the movie E.T. where there is a spark between E.T. and the boy’s hand as they “touch” and then there is the usual branding below with iPodtouch written as one word with the iPod portion bolded, and of course the lettering is all white.

The second image comes from 9to5Mac which were also the initiators of the fat Nano photo that was first spread around and then taken down from several sites as per request from Apple’s legal team, leading most to believe the photos were real, so the source seems solid. I for one would welcome our new widescreen iPod Touch overlords if they were to arrive.

More iPod Nano and Touch Mockups [via macrumors]

Lest you’ve forgotten, the rumoured iPod Touch includes the embedded OS, single-button home navigation, iPod Coverflow interface and 480 x 320 touchscreen of the iPhone, in a slightly thicker, sharper-edged shell.

Seen a good mockup somewhere online?  Leave a link in the comments.

I’m now trying to think of other unusual materials you could make an iPhone replica out of.  Obviously there’s going to be a huge market for ice iPhone sculptures at geek weddings, and maybe a large polystyrene iPhone that children could use as a boogie board at the beach.

The end result is ideal for those of you who love Apple’s style but hate using cellphones.

[via MAKE]

My favorite is the iPhone Shuffle, where it randomizes your phone calls. This is a great feature to keep you in touch with folks you don’t normally would call.

Mockups do iPhone Nano e iPhone Shuffle [via Gizmodo]

This third image is an iPhone made from carbon fiber (yes is very fake).

Carbon FiPhone [via Gizmodo]