“On Dec. 8, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed Apple’s patent titled ‘Display housing for computing device.’ In total, Apple has filed three such patents on the same day pertaining to the same title with varying details and emphasis. This three part report covers each of them,” Neo reports for Macsimum News. “This first report covers patent 20050270244 where Apple places emphasis on antennas being configured to transmit or receive RF signals. The second feature that stood out is their revelation of a track pad with two additional buttons.”
Full article with illustration here.
“This second patent report covers patent 20050270733 whereby Apple places emphasis on a new translucent housing for digital devices including a display apparatus, a foam stiffener and EMI shielding. The specific illustration associated with this aspect of the patent is that of FIG.2, as described further below… Much of what is described generally in this patent is further detailed in Apple’s famous Chameleon patent of 2004,” Neo explains.
Full article here.
Advertisements: The New iMac G5. Built-in camera and remote control. From $1299. Free shipping.
Apple USB Modem. Easily connect to the Internet using your dial-up service. $49.00.
The New iPod with Video. The ultimate music & video experience on the go. From $299. Free shipping.
Connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable. Just $19.00.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple patents for devices that dynamically change color may be disputed – August 25, 2003
Apple to release new computers and devices that dynamically change color? – December 28, 2002
A two button laptop from Apple was inevitable.
It’d be cool if the iPods had a satellite radio feature built into them. Can you say: Apple-XM joint venture?
The antennae are so Steve can more easily communicate with Base Leader back on Relnack. In this way his plan for total world domination will be easier to complete.
Having the antennae on every individual unit just means that all the users (us) can be programmed with the Relnackian manifesto that much easier.
The two additional buttons on the track pad are for the extra Relnackian fingers (they have seven). Once they arrive they won’t want any third-party add-ons in order to use the units.
Enjoy your freedom now.
Since Apple’s designs are show pieces in and of themselves, what’s the chances they’d offer limited editions like clear laptops, chameleon skins…?
XM? XM is dead. Sirius = Howard.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10312484/site/newsweek/
It’s all over for XM by early spring.
And the tech for live satellite radio in an iPod isn’t ready for primetime, yet.
Oh, and you should have peanut butter. Lots of peanut butter.
Relnackians use it for fuel. And in their heated efforts to fend off the swarming hordes of Microsoft users (and Scientologists) once they arrive they will need plenty of energy for the task.
Imagine- a world free of Microsoft and Scientologists.
All thanks to the Relnackians and their supreme local leader Steve J.
(P.S. Buy peanut butter-related stocks now.)
> transmit or receive RF signals.
> Apple’s famous Chameleon patent of 2004
iPod Phone anyone?
I will be transmitting the plans for the Apple branded teleportation device directly to Steve’s brain from our labs on Relnack. From there he will be able to relay the plans to the hardware engineering group so they can begin producing it, and to Jon Ive so he can design a great housing for it.
Our Relnackian atmosphere permits unlimited teleportation but the Earth atmosphere will limit its range to just a few hundred miles. When Mac users hear this they will of course complain endlessly that they will wait for iPort 2.0 and that the price tag of 300$ US is too high.
Forget the 2-button track pad. The keyboard only has 24 KEYS!!
APPLE, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS???? How in the hell are we supposed to write an email without @? Smilies are doomed.
I guess it makes sense as a way of differentiating the laptop lines. (To get the full complement of keys you have to shell out for a PowerBook.) But I can only afford an iBook, and I still need Z, Q, and all the numbers. Maybe they’re combing Q and U into one key, which I guess is okay as long as you don’t live in Qatar. Steve has probably negotiated a deal to change the name to Quatar.
That’s it. I’m switching to Intel. No, I’m NOT switching to Intel. Damn it!
Hamnar, you are speaking out of turn. You need to be bleemed.
Please report to the isotope laboratory on the main campus (accessed through the Apple public bookstore by pressing CTRL-ALT-7-K-TAB-% on the third iBook from the cash register) where you will be teleported to Ive’s primary testing bay for reconstitution.
All other Relnackians please return to normal duties.
“Long live Relnack and Local Leader Steve J.”
Kelnar and Hamnar you are both being fined 10,000 peanut butter cookies (that’s a month wages on Relnack) for disclosing home world secrets to numbskulls. Report to your home world supervisor, now.
Aren’t they just talking about… a screen?
You’re all plants!
And I’m a Vegan!
And I’M HUNGRY!!!!
Kelnar & Hamnar:
You terrans make me laugh at your silly attmepts to impersonate non-terrans.
Also teleportation devices are so limited as to be completely impractical. There is a completely different method of getting to where you want and it has nothing to do with moving in the four dimensional world you terrans experience (or the 10 dimensions of Gell-Mann or even the 155 dimensional world postulated by the group in India [the highest self consistent dimensionality I’ve read of on Earth]). Just remember, “Upward but not Nortward.” Also have you seen this sign around lately, “Klein Bottle for rent; enquire within”?
dennis:
Why are 24 keys too limiting? Back in the 80s there was a somewhat popular device (add-on) to the Mac which used chording (the BAT with only 7 keys giving over 5,000 possible key combinations). You could type everything with just one hand. Using it allowed you to “type” with one hand and have your other on a mouse or digitizer puck. There were claims at the time of people reaching greater than 50 words per minute with one.
In reality I would expect the 24 keys is not an accurate physical representation of any device Apple might ship.
Sorry, iDon’tnar.
Beechar made me do it. He’s hiding here somewhere.
all of you folks from relnack need to step away from the computer, go outside, and get some sunshine…..
as if we wern’t dweebs enough by posting on MDN…..
all of you folks from relnack need to step away from the computer, go outside, and get some sunshine…..
as if we wern’t dweebs enough by posting on MDN…..
all of you folks from relnack need to step away from the computer, go outside, and get some sunshine…..
as if we wern’t dweebs enough by posting on MDN…..
all of you folks from relnack need to step away from the computer, go outside, and get some sunshine…..
as if we wern’t dweebs enough by posting on MDN…..
We are from France.
ok, enough already — Please use the proper capitalization or you will also be bleemed. Always capitalize Relnack.
And I can get none of your “sunshine”, as I am currently stationed in what is known as the “northeast corridor” of your United States. At present your skies are emitting a notable mixture of solids and liquids which I believe you Terrans call “snow”.
Also, as is the case with most Relnackians I am allergic to sun. Local Leader Steve J. is as well. Why do you think he’s always wearing that dark turtleneck? In reality, a very expensive chroniton flux solar shield — custom made for him by Pleelor on Relnack.
Death to Scientology
Let’s get this straight:
Teleportation will never fly. The you going somewhere dies – full stop. The you arriving thinks it’s you and says phew, and starts living as if nothing happened. But you ain’t him; you’re gone – forever. MW: If the machine goes haywire it could create several thousand you’s, but you’d still dead, unless teleportation creates a copy without deconstructing you.
Less is More:
Wouldn’t that be justification for personal DRM? Only one copy is allowed to be made when one is deconstructed?
Maybe that’s the ultimate goal of Fairplay?
Too bad teleportation is such a limited technology.
[Geek Alert]
^^ Less is More: I thought that “multiple copies” thing was the problem with the transporter?
You know, from Star Trek?
[/Geek Alert]
Girls scare me.