A mega Apple iPhone patent application has just released by the USPTO (Jobs et al. 20080174570: 361 pages!). It contains a detailed description of most of the iPhone’s user interface. There are two interesting features which haven’t been seen before in the extant iPhone — support for Flash and Window Media and a useful iPhone [...]

Remote control systems that can distinguish stray light sources
Further support for the contention that Apple is building a Wii-like controller is found in the USPTO patent applications. Apple has applied for a patent for a refinement of a Wii-like controller which uses a number of means to stop interference with the system by reflection, [...]

An interesting patent application from Apple is for a method of informing a user that their phone/device may lose signal before it happens (i.e. if you’re driving along a road it will say “you will lose signal in 15 seconds, allowing youthe driver to pull off the road so you can finish your conversation or [...]

Apple Finder of Lost Objects
Are you like me — do you have more electronic gadgets than you can keep track of? where is that wireless mouse? where is the BlueTooth headpiece for the phone? Where is the damn phone? where is my GPS etc etc etc. Apple engineers have been staying up nights worrying [...]

Apple’s original patent applications for the iPhone showed a product that resembled an iPod Nano more than the iPhone we know today (I’ll call it the iPhone Nano but apparently the project was called the P1). Conversely, the iPhone seems to have been born out of an Apple touch screen tablet concept which, at least [...]

A patent application has recently surfaced submitted by Apple to the USPTO dealing with how best to implement a head mounted display- is the future of the iPhone/Mac OS wearable computing or is it just blue-sky thinking. The listed inventor, John Tang, is part of the Apple Industrial Design Group and worked on the eMate as well as other projects. Here are some of the details of the patent application and you decide:

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The banners are up at MacWorld — and they’re saying “2008 There’s something in the air”
Hrmpf! These banners will obviously make sense come Tuesday but until then we will have to speculate wildly about their meaning. One thing I think is that it doesn’t seem to point to a new Apple SubNoteBook — [...]

I deserve some sort of prize for having the dirtiest sensor on a digital camera… I’ve had my D70 for about 4 years and have taken lens off in dust storms (or at least that’s how the sensor looked). I was despairing and thinking I’d have to fork out some cash for a professional cleaning. [...]

An interesting story on Wired describes some of the process that Apple went through to create the iPhone. It’s hard to know exactly how reliable all the information is, but one paragraph struck a chord– the description of the pre-iPhone iPhone.

From Wired:
Jobs refused to use someone else’s software. They built a prototype of a phone, [...]

An Apple patent has recently surfaced for a dynamically changeable OLED keyboard similar to the Optimus. The keyboard would rely on OLEDs to provide the graphics on the key surfaces. The patent application also details how such a keyboard would be manufactured. The current cost for the optimus keyboard is USD$462 so Apple would have [...]