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what's good Bryant song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple iPad rumors are a dime a dozen right now plus we'll announce our winners for our gelaskins giveaway now you probably already know that Apple sent out their official invites for their March seventh ipad event in San Francisco I was kind of let down because I was really hoping for an entire event just focusing on the classic ipod and mac mini but oh well now apple's invitation says we have something you really have to see and touch you know i've been using that line on girls for years now so why don't you get original apple it doesn't work you want some pie you're just told me no my darling your tea Wow let's taste good Oh Brian I wanted this now the invite also started the endless flood of speculation could Apple really be removing the physical home button to an all touch interface or is that just an iPad turned sideways well let me burst your bubble people after repair Labs has reportedly acquired the front glass piece and digitizer for the next gen ipad in both black and white they point out it has a different ribbon cable connection from the previous generation and look closely that's a home button then everyone went all Ultimate Warrior saying things like look at how sharp that icon is clearly it must be the retina display you know they're probably right but can you really really tell that from the image look I see two sentences call me crazy but maybe it's two devices they're announcing and one of them is an iPad and the other is a product from Apple we haven't seen yet people do your lives really revolve around every single thing Apple is doing is this so bad that you would sell your soul to devil and do a show every week about Apple just to pay your bills what's happening what's happening what's happening brian Tong here apparently it is now with the announcement in less than a week the hype is at an all-time high and the rumor mills are firing on all cylinders and I guarantee you there will be 20 more by the time you watch this didja times has an always been the most reputable apple source but it didn't stop there claims that will see a 16 and 32 gig ipad 3 as well as an eight gig ipad 2 that will cover the lower end of the market for Apple then because they need another iPad story for what's coming next digit times reports mass production of a smaller 7.85 inch iPad will start in the third quarter of this year now 9to5 mac has their own report saying there will be at least three different iPad variants for a Wi-Fi 3g and 4g flavors that will be available for pre-order on the 7th or a few days later and with apple TV inventory exhausted retail chains everywhere the other device could possibly be the new Apple TV guys and gals it's getting so bad that sky Bet was taking actual bets on the ipad 3 specs and then had to pull them because it was getting a little out of hand see how cray cray this thing is getting this is bigger than Liz sanity Nixon beat the wizard seven straight times get up and throw it down baby you ride that wave surfing tool internet okay it's things back down to earth a little bit with other exciting news happening around the Apple world and it's all about the revolutionary Lytro camera that launched this week and it's changing how we take pictures and how we interact with them it's Mac only right now so check out this look at the camera and some of its new features hey guys Brian song here with cnet.com and we wanted to give you a first look at some of the new hot features for the Lytro camera is text most buzz-worthy camera and it's shipping right now from Lytro com now to catch you up to speed the lytro camera is unlike any other with a unique design that uses light field technology to capture all the light information color intensity and direction the light is moving in a single picture now you won't need a focus you just take a picture and with all this information you can choose the subject or your object you want to focus on after the fact with what they call their living pictures now they've added a few new improvements to their interface where you can swipe from the bottom of the screen and you'll get a menu bar for battery life and the amount of picture space available but you also get a new mode called creative mode by default the camera is set to light rose everyday mode with their default settings that's set to a 3x optical zoom but it has limitations with how you can compose shots creative mode unlocks the 8x optical zoom range and allows you to control and composure shots like let's take an extreme macro shot we've seen shots like this in popular food photography and also to showcase textures or you've seen portrait shots where subject is in focus but the background is completely blurred out it will also allow you to zoom in and out of a subject after you've set the focal point for a more dramatic effect and better shot composition control now this is all part of the creative mode but all in focus mode that point of shoot camera users are familiar with will be a software update in the first half of this year now you can also interact with your pictures directly on the camera screen but sharing is a big piece of the puzzle now the software lives locally on the camera and you can install it when you plug it in it's only currently Mac compatible but lytro says there will be of Windows version of the software coming by the end of 2012 now each picture is stored locally on your computer that takes up about 16 megs through their Lytro app you'll upload your living pictures that are stored on their own servers they said it's unlimited storage right now and they'll process them down to about a 500k 21 Meg file depending on how many multiple perspectives you have now you can then share that living picture through social networks like Facebook Twitter and Google Plus or embed them in light shows flash or html5 player you'll also be able to right click on a picture and convert it into a 1080 x 1080 jpeg file that's compressed down to size for you now the lightshow camera is only available through their website at light road starting at 399 for an aching model and they say it will be available in unnamed retail channels later this year so there you have it I'm Bryant on with your quick first look at some of the new features with the launch of the truly revolutionary light show Cameron I'm a huge fan already and just think this is the first version of the device and it's a technology that's only going to get better all right in laptop news it at times claims apples expected to launch a thinner 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro sometime in April now there's no word about a revised 17 inch model in the report and even after some reported delays with Intel's Ivy Bridge chipset it sounds a little too early for me but we'll wait and see now I've also always believed the next platform Apple should go into after the TV that's if they really do it is cars and maybe there's some real evidence to support that idea now car news China reports that newly discovered automotive job listings on linkedin claims Apple is seeking a supplier quality engineer and new product integration supervisor pointing to the possibility that the Cupertino kids are finally looking to extend the business into car related products it wouldn't be the first time after rumblings in 2007 that Apple is working with Volkswagen on its own integrated car concept and if they take too long to do it mercedes-benz has announced plans for integration between Apple's iPhone 4s and they're really affordable a class line including support for this serie virtual assistant it will communicate through Mercedes custom digital drive style app and the a-class line will make its world premiere at the geneva auto show this year so maybe they could at least throw in an iphone with the purchase of the car guys maybe okay all right let's get to the winners of our gelaskins forty dollar gift card giveaway we asked you the Apple biters for the names of the different kinds of mountain lions and you delivered correct responses included the Puma Panther hat to mount and mountain cat probably look exactly like thanks to wikipedia so congrats go out to Nicole Washington Wyatt Tomlinson sonya smith omar torres and charles and that's really his name alright thanks for all your entries everyone will find out what Apple has been cooking next week and please send us any and all you're burning questions for our upcoming email episode to the Apple by at cnet com that's going to do it for this week's show i'm brian Tong we'll catch you next time for another bite of the Apple