I wonder what this might be :)

It looks like a serious fingerpainting app, not only painting with the fingers on the screen but also hovering just above it. Imagine shaking your hand just above the screen to splash some paint on the canvas like in the image.

Does that technology even exist? ;)

Could be an announcement about the imminent apple branded spray paint gun.

MacBook Pro will be available in. It's rather difficult to read much meaning from splotches of colors and translate it into an Apple product. Still, if you look much closer and concentrate you can actually see Steve's beaming face holding a tablet computer high above his head. Jeez, such nonsense.

Given a number of Apple patents that have emerged over the years including Apple's contextual keyboard (A keyboard with an image matrix(?) on each button-top so that the symbols changed contextually) and their recent stylus for capacitive touch-screens, maybe Apple's announcement truly is a slate, like a drawing slate that can take the role of a contextual keyboard. Or put another way, a touchscreen that can be tasked for different purposes. One minute, it's a Wacom Cintiq type device, the next minute, it's a Final Cut Pro keyboard and a minute later, it's a control surface for Protools or Logic. I'm liking this idea, even if I'm completely wrong! This might explain Apple's emphasis on "creation"?

hooray, its the return of macpaint!

Go eat dirt, adobe...

Ah, so it's "Come see our latest creation"? I was hoping they'd do a little more with the tagline on their invitation this time. My suggestion would have been "It's not what you think.", leading to even more speculation in the days before the event. Plus, I hope that when this tablet thing finally is released, it really won't be what we were expecting but hopefully more.

Then again: neither does Steve ever ask for my advice on marketing things, nor is there a chance that the iSlate/iGuide/iWhatever will ever live up to the hype preceding it.

they are bringing back the multi-color Apple logo!
:)

Homage to graffiti input? It used to be an option for newton? Inkwell? Hmmm....