“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 39 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
Purcher reports, “Apple’s patent filing describes a futuristic non-physical MacBook keyboard that only appears when the the user waves their hand over the keyboard area: ‘This ability may allow the housing input mechanism 600 to be implemented as a hidden keyboard, where the illumination devices are illuminated when the user waves his hand over the housing to cause the keys to appear.'”
Much more, including Apple’s patent application illustrations and diagrams, in the full article here.