06/16/2011, Social networking is really huge these days, and we hardly know anyone who has yet to jumped aboard the Facebook or Twitter bandwagon. After all, you do care what the world thinks about the number of friends you have, right? [...]
04/19/2011, Apple has been awarded another two patents that might just see the light of day in current as well as future iPhone handsets in ways that are different, be they big or small. One of the patents will formalize a [...]
12/16/2010, Recently, one of Apple’s patents, an Improved Laminate Composite has just been approved – delivering what would be a lighter and stronger material for the iPad and future devices. This might just lead to carbon fiber products from the fruity [...]
12/09/2010, Sony Ericsson has recently gone about filing a new patent for its projection phone – albeit this one comes with a twist. Why do we say so? Well, for starters, it will not only be able to project your preferred [...]
09/09/2010, One of Apple’s latest patents to be revealed concerns an LCD TV which will feature separate modes for both video and still photos. While sharing photos on an iDevice like the iPad is already simple enough as it is, Apple [...]
08/03/2010, Among Samsung’s more recent patent applications, here’s one that offers a “Mobile terminal having dual touch screen and method of controlling content therein”. This could very well change the ways tablet devices and their respective user interfaces work in the [...]
06/21/2010, Research In Motion recently filed a trademark application for “Blackberry Drive“, where it describes it as “Key fobs; non-electric cables and wires of common metal; small items of metal hardware; goods of common metal not included in other classes”. This [...]
05/28/2010, Sony has filed a patent application for a dual-screened “Electronic Book With Enhanced Features”, and the more eagle-eyed among you might figure this to be what the Microsoft Courier could have been. Sony’s patent application is a no-brainer – when [...]
05/13/2010, Is stereoscopic 3D the future? It might seem so with the blockbuster hit Avatar in movie theatres, not to mention the insane amount of Blu-ray discs of the movie sold thereafter, letting James Cameron laugh all the way to the [...]
12/11/2009, Could this be it? Finally, has Apple realized what a lucrative market the iPhone/iPod dock is? The company from Cupertino, California, has filed for a patent application for a new kind of universal Dock which ought to bring some forward [...]
11/12/2009, Another day, another new patent application from Apple – this time round one that points toward a superior handwriting and input recognition via pen. This new system will comprehend complex “ink information” that is created from a pen-like stylus. Dubbed [...]
07/10/2009, Apple has unveiled a slew of new patent applications that include facial recognition, where this technology will be used for controlling access and various handset functions. It is definitely less intuitive than other current options available, and it looks like [...]