“Apple filed their ‘Apple’ trademark in China this week which we noted as carrying an interesting twist,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“We noticed that Apple had, for the first time, emphasized fashion accessories and precious metals for jewelry, a watch and more in association with their brand name in a very succinct way,” Purcher reports. “That just happens to fall in nicely with a new Apple patent application that was published this morning by USPTO that specifically points to using a next generation iPod nano as a fashion accessory”
Purcher reports, “The unique aspect of this accessory is that it will implement a wild new dynamic screen saver system that could sense the environment it is in and in a chameleon-like fashion automatically change the screen saver accordingly. The patent even indirectly hints at a camera returning to the iPod nano which would support several on-going rumors.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
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Speaking of fashion accessories, I’d like an Apple baseball cap. An Apple coffee cup, also. And another thing… an Apple pen.
Visit the company store at 1 Infinite Loop when you make your pilgrimage to Cupertino.
Sh*t that would be so cool on a watch that doubles as an accessory. Think of cool live screen savers in the form of moving art or equalizer type of movement when you play music on your pod. That’s really a great aesthetic idea I could only expect from Apple. Craft the watch in liquidmetal and it’s a done deal!
Yeah – what’s the deal with Liquidmetal anyway? Apple still has no products based on it. The leaked pics of the new iPhone also show no Liquidmetal. I’m starting to wonder if Apple wasted money on it..
I have a feeling that these “fashion accessories” are meant to pre-empt Chinese mfrs from ripping off Apple, more than they are meant for actual production.
Apple-branded sex toys is the next breakthrough.
Talk about forbidden fruit.
The magical iVibrator will have you screaming with pleasure!
“OOHHHHH STEEEEVVEEEE!!!!!!!” lol
Given that ‘fashion’ is something so intolerable that it has to be changed every 6 months – smart move Apple!