New Apple patent sees your touch light things up!
By Ben Robinson on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 7:19 AM PST In Apple
A recent patent filed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) shows the touchwheel/pad of the Macbook/iPod lighting up as you touch it. It covers both a light encircling your finger (as above), and also blocks of light as you move across areas (see below):
In addition, there’s a third option whereby intensity of light is decided by speed of movement of your finger. Of course, the question now is: what is the use-case for this? Is is interweb browsing in the dark, or some kind of Jean-Michel Jarre light piano?!
[Via: Mobilewhack]
Interesting post. I was reading about Apple’s patent for the personal computer http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/180 earlier and it seems apple is still going strong the during the time it was started. Apple is a tech revolution.