A closer look at the video clippings of the Apple media event that saw the unveiling of the iPad, clearly hints at a thus-far-not-disclosed feature of the tablet device – a Webcam, which Apple might just reveal as a “one more thing” when it nears the device’s launch!

With the Apple CEO Steve Jobs having supposedly demonstrated a prototype of the iPad at the official unveiling, screen-shots of the event reveal a small dot above the device’s screen, opposite the home button.

Moreover, the conjecturing about the Webcam possibility in the iPad is further corroborated by the picture of the device leaked just a few hours before the event – it shows an iPad locked down in a security casing, with the camera in the bezel.

Though there has been no official mention of the iPad’s Webcam feature, it is rather baffling and somewhat starnge that Mission Repair, a Mac and iPod repair firm, has already received replacement parts for fixing iPads. Going by the pictures posted by Mission Repair’s Ryan Arter, on the company’s blog, there surely appears to be a spot for a camera in the main iPad frame.

While it can be safely deduced that the iPad is equipped with the camera hardware, the probable reason why Steve Jobs refrained from announcing it at the device’s unveiling event could be that first-generation iPad will still ship without a camera!