Comments on: Odd iPod Patent Shows Dual Screens, Rear Touchscreen

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:26:48 +0000

You’d be surprised how quickly these products come to life. The iPhone multi-touch patents were released just 5 months before the products was announced:

http://www.appleinsider.com/ar.....iling.html

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:09:15 +0000

Seems cool to me- but I don’t quite understand the point..

By: Spud

Spud — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:48:17 +0000

This is quite an intriguing idea and an interesting solution to the problem of trying to make small screens into touch screens. I’m not sure how well it would work in practice so would love to get my hands on one to give it a try. Is any of this relevant anyway as surely the iPhone will eventually make the iPod obsolete.

By: Tsarin

Tsarin — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:07:00 +0000

Did I see a non-QWERTY keypad???

By: Garth Shoemaker

Garth Shoemaker — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:41:30 +0000

This idea is very similar to that described in an academic paper I read called “Under the Table Interaction” by some people at the University of Toronto (none of them me unfortunately).

Check it out, I think it is interesting:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/pap.....ST2006.pdf

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By: coRank

coRank — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:19:02 +0000

Apple: Odd iPod Patent Shows Dual Screens, Rear Touchscreen…

The Interweb is all a’flutter about an odd iPod patent filed by Apple that describes a device with screens on both the front and the back of the player. An amalgam of Sprint’s UpStage and the iPhone, this patent describes an interface in which a r…

By: Chandler

Chandler — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:55:25 +0000

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By: Digitaal magazine

Digitaal magazine — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:43:10 +0000

Haha great post

By: rod

rod — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:27:31 +0000

I just wanted to take this opportunity to share my coverage of the APPLE MUTANT ALIEN DEATH HAND patent illustration:

http://techfold.com/2007/05/10.....-of-death/

…this filing appears to safe.

By: bdb

bdb — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:57:01 +0000

yawn…

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:54:47 +0000

This is our design for I Phone 5.0 when we conquer the world along with Google , and become the next Microsoft …. HUHAHAHAHAH

By: Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:23:11 +0000

That would actually be pretty cool. Seems like it would be a pretty comfortable and intuitive interface too, it would be kind of like holding a controller for a game console…

But what happened to the patent for the touch sensitive “border,” or whatever, that everyone was talking about ~6 months ago?

By: Steve S

Steve S — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:14:05 +0000

And Apple rumormongering is the glue that holds the internet together.

It is an interesting concept, and maybe not quite as far flung as it may seem. With new designs in OLEDs, paper thin electronic devices aren’t too far off.