“Apple is looking into technology that offers users an easier, safer, way to text and walk by making an iPhone’s screen ‘transparent’ during messaging operations through the clever use of live video,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“To enable a ‘transparent texting’ system, Apple proposes that an app’s background be modified to display video images continuously captured by an iPhone’s rear-facing camera, according to a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday,” Campbell reports. “Due to their inherently mobile nature, smartphones are often used while moving. This is fine for voice calls, but could be problematic for operations that demand visual attention like reading or writing text messages. Aside from appearing antisocial, texting could potentially cause bodily harm if a user operates their device while walking.”
“The implementation as described by Apple is quite simple. A device uses its rear-facing camera to continuously capture video and present the images as a background within a text messaging app currently being displayed,” Campbell reports. “The onscreen result would be offer the illusion of a transparent display with floating text.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’re unsure of the merits of protecting idiots from themselves.
Look around. Why accelerate The Idiocracy?
Apple would better serve humanity by simply letting natural selection run its course. 😉
Anyone who’s spent any time on the campuses of CalTech or MIT knows that this technology would be as useful to the extremely intelligent among us as it could be for the dolts. Distraction is not the exclusive territory of the idiot.