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 — [...]

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 [...]

Apple has designed an implementation for a docking station for a MacBook- this invention would seem best suited to use with an Apple Sub NoteBook as is rumored to be announced at MacWorld on January 15. Is this just another Apple patent application or evidence of the Apple SubNoteBook?

Basically, the docking station is like the [...]

There has been much discussion about whether the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware images and video from Gearlive.com is fake. It seems to be coming to a consensus that the images aren’t fake. I remember finding some Apple patents a while ago which seemed strikingly similar to what was being shown… and sure enough after some [...]

Quick Look is great feature of OS X Leopard — it provides the previews for Quick Look (just select a file and press the space bar) and also the thumbnails for icon generation and CoverFlow. Apple provided support for a number of file types and now developers are starting to create plugins for different file [...]

Three new touch surface patent applications have surfaced from Apple. These patents seem less focussed on the iPhone and iPod touch but hint at larger devices. The applications focus on recognising the touch of a hand and identifying the various parts and they using this data to filter the incoming data. For example, the patent [...]