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“This week we’re privy to see that Apple’s R&D team have been thinking about a new material that could end up in any number of future Apple products,” Purcher reports. “The material is basically regarded as a composite laminate that could consist of a wide range of materials including glass, synthetics, metals (such as aluminum or titanium) – or even epoxy.”
“Apple’s patent is as secretive as they are,” Purcher reports. “It provides absolutely no guidance whatsoever as to how they intend on utilizing this new kind of material – though it’s commonly used in real-world products today ranging from an iPad cover to all manner of sporting equipment like golf clubs to baseball bats to canoes and conceivably bikes, skis and ski boots. All we know for certain at this point in time is that Apple has been granted a patent for supposedly improving the cosmetic surface of this material.”
Read more in the full report, which includes patent application illustrations, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Here’s a suggestion for all the wannabe competitors:
Start using your rotten brains.
Liquid Metal + Composite Laminate = Schweet!
Unobtainium?
@Progressive Agent Provocateur
No… Tiberium.
It’s for the white in the iP4. Apple was having all sorts of problems with color consistency for the white…maybe this is it sorted out.
@JKPinPDX
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That wouldn’t be related to Kirkium, would it?
Habitformingum
More transparent aluminum? Scotty would be so proud. (As modeled miracuously in rotating 3D on a 1980’s era Macintosh in Star Trek IV.)
Amazing he not only knew how to use a computer created 400 years in his past but was able to get it to do things it couldn’t do then in a few “distastefully antiquated” keyboard strokes. Must have read all the past technical journals too!
More transparent aluminum? Scotty would be so proud. (As modeled miracuously in rotating 3D on a 1980’s era Macintosh in Star Trek IV.)
Amazing he not only knew how to use a computer created 400 years in his past but was able to get it to do things it couldn’t do then in a few “distastefully antiquated” keyboard strokes. Must have read all the past technical journals too!
@Peter Blood
Dude, it’s Star Trek, not the Discovery Channel. Allow for some creative license eh?
Insanelygratium
Macnium or Xnium or iNium
I work in the film industry so well know creative license. I’ve sat in the ENTERPRISE series bridge set Captains chair (kinda freaky but cool), I’ve worked with Jonathan Frakes when he was shooting NEMESIS as Riker. I’ve been a fan of Trek since TOS days starting in 1967 when I was 14 years old. I’ve made amateur (and thoroughly embarrassing) Star Trek movies as a teen. It’s all said with great affection. Star Trek has motivated a lot of people to invent stuff we use today influenced by that great show.
I’ll be damned. The author actually used ‘utilize’ and ‘use’ correctly. I don’t think I’ve seen this for years. Perhaps there is hope!
Nah, it was probably an accident.
Yes, i like the idea of a bulletproof iPod or iPhone. Why not, right?
Ya i read that in the story too, Joe. What a marketing angle that is. And knowing Jobs, he’ll use it to the maximum.
Barrium… as in what Apple will do to the competition!
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