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Something in the air? — MacBookAir Inductive charging, RFID tagging?

Posted by hrmpf on January 12th, 2008

MacBookAir
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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 — [...]

Digital Camera Sensor Cleaning with Magic Tape

Posted by hrmpf on January 11th, 2008

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. [...]

Apple’s First iPhone the P1

Posted by hrmpf on January 10th, 2008

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, [...]

New Apple Dynamic OLED Keyboard

Posted by hrmpf on January 3rd, 2008

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 [...]

Docking Station for Apple SubNoteBook

Posted by hrmpf on January 3rd, 2008

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 [...]

Apple Patent shows details of iPhone 1.1.3 firmware

Posted by hrmpf on January 2nd, 2008

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 [...]


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