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An AppleInsider report discusses a recently published patent application from Apple describing a method offering a simplified transfer of data between devices. In the application, Apple says that current sync methods are needlessly complex, and explains that, "Though a user may have access to two similarly capable el... |
6 November 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Apple has already implemented means of detecting if its devices have experienced liquid submersion – liquid sensors. However, through a recently published patent application, the Mac maker is now proposing a new way to let vendors know what exactly that returned device has endured. "The system may include an i... |
6 August 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Apple has filed for a new patent application called “active packaging” for what is most likely the company’s line of iPod media players. The concept could supply power and firmware updates not only to iPods, but also to iPhones and other electronic devices while still inside their retail packaging. ... |
3 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Newborns are not easy to communicate with – for the obvious reasons, of course. As he was watching a documentary on babies and how mothers often fail to see when their temperature is rising, or do so with delay, Chris Ebejer came up with the idea of creating a suit that would do precisely that. Now, six years l... |
18 June 2009
14:21 GMT |
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In the field of oceanic exploration, submersibles, or submarines, as they're best known, are still the leaders of the pack. Alternatives to this method of exploring the depths are very rare, and most of them cannot even begin to compare to the large number of applications a submarine can be used for. For this ve... |
14 May 2009
08:35 GMT |
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A recently published patent application by Apple for biometric security on iPhones includes imagery (left) of what seems to be a jailbroken iPhone showing the icons for Installer.app and the SMBPrefs jailbroken app. In accordance with Apple's interpretation of the DMCA as it relates to Jailbreaking, using these ... |
30 March 2009
05:43 GMT |
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A report points out to a new Apple patent published by the US Patent & Trademark Office for “Dynamic Presentation of Location-Specific Information.” Basically, it's an improved overview of the “Now playing” service Apple earlier implemented for iPhone owners buying their coffee at Starbuc... |
5 March 2009
10:46 GMT |
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A Japanese engineer has crafted an MP3 player (bearing an Apple logo) shaped like a cube. The player isn't strange because it's a cube, but because it has no mechanical controls whatsoever.The device could very well sit on a shelf next to Apple's iPods thanks to a sleek design and ingenious functionali... |
29 January 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Yet another Apple patent filing has been spotted on the Internet, this time involving an audio sensor to auto-adjust iPhone ringtones. While not exactly mind-blowing, Apple insists the invention be called theirs. So, here's the plan.Now, more than ever, devices such as TV sets, computers and mobile phones are be... |
22 January 2009
09:40 GMT |
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When it comes to caring for their pets, some owners simply never seem to get enough. And for those of you who own parrots or other indoor living winged creatures, and like to let them fly around all day, a start-up company decided to invent bird diapers. The problem of feces is widely spread in all major cities in th... |
13 January 2009
05:10 GMT |
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For those of you who love snowboarding, as well as for those who are looking to lose a few pounds in quite the most original way there ever was, there is now a thing called the sideways bike, created by Michael Killian. The bicycle has seen several prototypes, has already garnered plenty of media attention, and is no... |
13 January 2009
04:06 GMT |
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In 2007, Apple filed a patent application involving actual clothing for its customers. Particularly, the company behind the revolutionary iPhone applied for an invention called “High tactility glove system.” Published only recently, the system is most likely aimed at the iPhone and iPod touch, even though... |
5 January 2009
06:43 GMT |
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With Apple’s evolving multi-touch notebook trackpads, one of the company's latest published patents comes as no surprise. In the filing, the iPhone maker discloses means for optional functions that could provide useful shortcuts to iPhone and iPod touch users. Apple's invention generally relates to in... |
30 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Patent number 7453470 is for a method and apparatus for anti-aliasing scan conversion. Invented by Ralph Brunner, and filed December 24, 2002, the invention relates to means of achieving anti-aliasing scan conversion using a specific device. The patent was published only recently, along with other Apple inventions. ... |
20 November 2008
10:55 GMT |
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A patent filing made by Apple in July this year, for a more reliable Apple Remote control system, has been recently made available to the public. Apple talks of a remote, similar to the Nintendo Wii's controller (the Wii Remote). However, Apple's device would be able to better distinguish predetermined ligh... |
11 November 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Another Apple patent application has surfaced recently. Apple's invention talks of housing methods for a computing device, generally relating to computer systems. More particularly, the patent focuses on improved features for housings. The patent was filed on March 19, 2002, having been published only now.Abstra... |
31 October 2008
06:41 GMT |
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A new patent filing from Apple reveals that the company wants to provide ever-present access to the Internet through a series of tiny RF modules that can be toted or placed almost anywhere. The invention is aimed at notebooks, of course, since the iPhone already offers on-the-go Internet access. The new Apple pa... |
24 October 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Apple has patented an invention related to object-oriented computing environments. More particularly, the technology implies using a method for providing an object-oriented interface for a procedural operating system.“An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manne... |
13 October 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Apple has filed a patent for synchronized transmission of audio and video from a computer to a client via "an interface." The US Patent & Trademark Office reveals that Apple's invention refers to the behavior of devices that use communication over a network.Specifically, it relates to data flow management betwee... |
10 October 2008
14:41 GMT |
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While portable Mac user accounts have been hinted at for quite some time, MacsimumNews is reporting that a new patent (number 20080201456), revealed by the US Patent & Trademark Office, talks about a device that would seemingly render user accounts portable.According to the patent, which relates to multi-user compute... |
22 August 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Acting as a reminder of how careful Apple is about its intellectual property and other things, a patent application filed by the Mac maker a while ago has emerged. The iPod / iPhone packaging filing describes a base with a ledge formed on its interior, a holder disposed within the base for holding an item, and a lid ... |
18 July 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Attention, all lazy people, the self-making bed has just been invented! Mornings will never be the same again. Selfy the EasyBed, as its Italian inventor named it, can make itself at a push of a button. Fasteners located on each side, and moving on metals bars, spread the sheet over the bed with Swiss clock precision... |
8 April 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Unbelievable! After hundreds of years of scientific experiments clearly proving that perpetuum mobile machines have no place in this particular reality, or parallel universe, call it what ever you want, some people still doubt fundamental physics theories. Like Canadian inventor Thane Heins, for example, who spent th... |
6 February 2008
09:05 GMT |
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I bet that the title of this article has puzzled you to the point of starting to wonder if I've ever seen a joystick in my entire life. Don't worry, as I've seen plenty of controllers till now, but none of them as original as the one I'm about to describe. "Massage me" is not your average SIXAXIS... |
10 October 2007
10:18 GMT |
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What does "greatest" mean?Probably the best definition would be the "most defining of who we are today", something that dramatically changed the life of all humanity, and I will be referring only to inventions and not to discoveries such as the fire or the wheel.10 - The Telescope - It proved for the first time that... |
31 March 2007
03:35 GMT |
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I'm sure you heard about all kinds of anti-rape devices. You know, belts that once installed, couldn't allow rapists to hold victims down and open the protection belt at the same time. Well, now there are other anti-rape solutions. Rapex is a condom-like anti-rape device which has fish-like teeth. Once intr... |
20 March 2007
11:52 GMT |
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