It goes without saying that no Apple product is ever official until an Apple executive trots out on stage and actually unveils it for the eyes of the world to see. After all, if we believed everything the rumor mill tossed our way, an Apple HDTV would have shipped years ago and Apple would now own Twitter.
That said, there is a growing amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to Apple's increased efforts to release an iWatch type device. Not only has Apple filed a number of patents detailing technologies that might underlie such a product, but Tim Cook himself has said rather explicitly that wearable technology is "profoundly interesting" while specifically noting that "the wrist is interesting." Further, Apple a