Archive : Patent Applications

Apple are constantly pushing the boundaries of design and always coming up with new ideas to implement in their products, but this new patent filling will have a couple of you raising your eyebrows. According to this patent application, Apple are looking to remake the headphone jack as we know it. To put it simply, Apple doesn’t like holes or buttons on their devices, so any that can be got rid [...]

Now we’re still trying to get the iPhone 4 out of the door, heck it’s only arriving in 17 more countries tomorrow, but being the dedicated blog that we are, I already have some news and rumors on the next iPhone from Apple! Yep, so the iPhone 5, or the iPhone 3D (I’m just guessing names here) could possibly have the ability to record in 3D! We’re barely even able to get 3D onto [...]

Maybe this could be exclusive to the next generation iPhone, or maybe ( hopefully ) it won’t be coming to any iPhone or anywhere near us. But AppleInsider has done a bit of digging and discovered a patent application made by Apple which shows a wireless display that users would wear on their head in the form of glasses or goggles. These “Stylish” looking boys show us what looks to [...]

Apple are constantly surprising us and now they’ve sprung this on us. It seems they are looking into a new social network called iGroups to be used on the iPhone and iPhone 4G. As reported from PatentlyApple, a new patent from Apple has been discovered, explaining just how the new social communications app will work. It is thought that this new service will be used mainly with the next gen [...]

Could the next generation iPhone have built in support for video calls? While many phones already have support for 3G video calls, the iPhone still has yet to get this feature. The back mounted camera probably doesn’t help that alot. Well some new information that was uncovered in the 3.2 iPhone SDK from Apple shows some information relating to video calling technology. In the SDK there are Icons [...]

We really don’t know what Apple has in store for us with the next iPhone, there are things popping up around the web all the time with new information and rumors about the 4th generation iPhone from Apple. A Patent Application from Apple filed in August 2008 showed that Apple were looking into controlling an iPhone or other handheld device by swiping one’s finger across the camera lens. One [...]