Is the Blackberry Playbook real?

When RIM released the Blackberry Playbook afew days ago, they showed off a teaser video of the device, but not the actual device, rather just an animated demo. During the conference where the RIM CEO talked about the release, he had what seemed to be a Blackberry Playbook, but surprisingly, he never touched the screen once. The screen seemed to be lit the whole time, but that could have easily been a stick or a light of some sort. I have a hunch the Playbook hasn't even been created yet and nothing is set and done. This is definitely not good, because when people get their hands on and it ends up much slower than what the video had showed, the Playbook will get a bad reputation. I wouldn't say anything about the Playbook is certain until we see a working model of the Blackberry Playbook.