Friday, February 22, 2013

#7: Apple Filed Patent for Flexible Wrist Display

Apple just filed a new patent last Thursday with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a “flexible watchlike device” that sounds really awesome. Apparently it will work “with a touch screen user input, a user can accomplish a number of different tasks including adjusting the order of a current playlist, and reviewing a list of recent phone calls.” Apple still has some kinks to work out, especially regarding the devices battery life. They have discussed curbing this issue by implementing “solar panel array spreads” to increase its battery life as people will not want to constantly take of the iWatch to charge it. All the while, Google is currently working on creating augmented reality glasses. 

Check it out!
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/apple-files-patent-for-flexible-watch/

1 comment:

  1. it's interesting in that companies could use their patent filing as marketing strategies.

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