A new patent spotted suggests a bright and interchanging future for the Mac. Smartphones have interchangeable keyboard layouts and can change between different looks with a touch, and this may be something that Apple aims to achieve in its new patent for the Mac.
In 2015 the iconic backlit Apple logo was dropped on their MacBook. A new patent application published today by the US Patent & Trademark Office suggests that Apple is revisiting this feature.
Patently Apple posted a series of Apple patent regarding the use of titanium for Apple devices and they finally utilized titanium in their new Apple Watch Ultra. Apple s latest granted patent published today illustrates that this alloy could expand to other Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad and MacBook, and, more importantly, in different colors .
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a possible future mixed reality headset with three internal displays. What s new is that Apple is considering adding two lower resolution "peripheral displays" residing on both the right and left side of the central display area to provide a more natural immersive experience viewing content like a game. This is something lacking in headsets today. A second granted patent this week hints of how AR/VR hand controllers .
This week there were a few additional patents of interest that were published by the U.S. Patent Office that we didn t get around to covering. In this last patent report of the week, we cover two patents. The first patent report covers Augmented Devices which could be very cool in the future, while the second report covers Apple s work on a new speaker configuration for Apple Watch and more.