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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara tsuboi joined by senior writer Casey Newton in kc we're talking about a new video that was released today allegedly showing off a new hot product from google tell us about the product and why it's alleged so earlier this afternoon a video showed up on the internet that purported to show something called the Chromebook pixel which would be if the video is accurate the first Google designed Chromebook and the first touch screen Chromebook and this is something that has been rumored since roughly November and now a video has leaked and we think that that's what this is now first of all no comment yet from google saying whether or not this is true that's right they have not confirmed that it exists and so we've been trying to do a little bit of digging to see where the video came from but based on some more digging we think that there's a good chance that it's a real laptop right i mean the rumors are you know go back to the fall and you know google has kind of intimated that they might be getting into both of these spaces yeah in november there were reports coming from some asian news sources saying that google was working on a touch powered chromebook that had a 12 point eight five inch screen if you look at the video it seems like this this one would be in the ballpark okay and why do we think that this video could be the real thing and not just a hoax so the video was produced by a company called slinky based in mountain view just like Google is it was started by an ex-googler and this guy's name is victor coke posted on his Google+ page that slinkies website had been hacked and all of their videos had been released to the public before their time he actually apologized and tagged sergey brin the co-founder of google in that post also posted a notice on his website saying that had been hacked so it seems like there has been some kind of hacking going on which does lend credence to the idea that this is a real video and maybe showing a real product sure I mean the video is slick it's well produced it's got a nice voiceover but perhaps leaked what couple weeks or months before it's really ready it's hard to say you know google loves to show off stuff at Google i/o their developer conference that's going to be in May this that's only a few months away hmm well keep us posted if you hear anything more I mean obviously it's going to be an interesting hot product anything touch-enabled these days is a big deal absolutely we're starting to see touch come to more and more laptops it makes sense that Google would get into this market and lots of the early comments from that I've heard from people they just can't wait to get their hands on it interesting good backstory to thank you so much senior writer Casey Newton I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop