As I so often like to blog about Apple’s cool new feature that they have patented I thought I would do the honours with a new offering from the company. This article shows a new ‘customisable’ user touch interface, allowing for gestures using your whole hand to be allocated to different tasks.
While perusing my usual plethora of RSS feeds I came across something that I see every now and again (thanks to The Register) which is a patent application from Apple. Normally when these come out it marks a milestone in the development of their technologies.
For example I saw the patent for the iPod Touch’s screen, and the general multi-touch application which we all know and love. Today I came across one called ‘visual feedback’ whereby the iPod’s clickwheel or the scroll pad on a Macbook would respond to the users’ finger movement by lighting up certain areas. Take a look here.
The actual patent application is obviously much longer and far more boring, but it just goes to show that it is relatively simple to implement something like this.
Also… I want to work for Apple!!