“Apple’s product development team is notorious for working in full secrecy. So how are we supposed to get a glimpse of what Apple may bring us in the future? You can try to break into Cupertino’s R&D department, or just ask Jack Purcher, publisher of Patently Apple – a popular blog site that analyzes Apple’s latest patents,” Karl Hente reports for MacDirectory.
Here are some of our favorite new technologies coming to an Apple store near you:
• iReporter Technology
• Avatar-like 3D Gesturing Technology
• Applications for Smart Transparent Displays
• Point-of-Sale Transaction Technology
Read more in the full article here.
Sigh… just give me my iPhone 5 already!!
No doubt. Just cuz it takes them so long on the white ip4 they have to keep us waiting…,
POS systems are already in place, put in place by Apple by way of iPod Touch and iPad usages by individual stores.
Excuse me, but Apple’s systems are not a POS. 🙂
Ha! People On Ships
That’s what windows is for … People who prefer POS systems 😉
Apple’s inventor Christoph Krah states that the three-dimensional (“3D”) imaging apparatuses that are described in the invention are suitable for head tracking (also see), (hand) gesturing, presence detection, auxiliary display functions, and other capabilities and functionalities that could involve combinations including an assortment of the following components: A collimated high-speed infrared (“IR”) or visible laser (e.g. such as used for fiber optic communications) A visible 3-color illumination source and driver circuit A high-speed photo detector (e.g., PIN diode based) A digital signal processor (“DSP”) Dual axis scanning device (e.g., analog mirror) and driver circuit Analog subsystem Video subsystem.
The patent was filed October 21, 2005 and lists Christoph H. Krah as its inventor.
More digital wankering from a writer who had a deadline to meet.
One potential product that I’ve surprisingly not seen any discussion of is the unreleased Apple web and graphics media suite. It’s seems an obvious enough market gap that needs filling, based on delivering HTML 5 tech that would match and outclass Photoshop and Flash and other CS products. Tumultco Hype is partly there and adobe edge a baby step in that direction, but beyond whispers from fofs I’ve not seen anything on it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see such a product in the next 12 months.