Apple Files For Smart Device Covers Patent

Apple has filed a rather interesting patent, which considers the possibility of putting additional covers on your device to give it additional features, which seems like a similar vein with the NTT DoCoMo F-04B cell phone. Various covers were considered in the patent, such as force sensors (no, not Star Wars), a solar grid, protection, lighting effects, illumination and many more. Of course, there are already a great many products that connect to the iPhone that give it additional functionality, but it’ll be interesting to see if Apple can actually make good use of the traditionally-boring phone cover. Do you have any fresh ideas on how Apple might use this patent?