Apple Gets a Limited Pinch-to-Zoom Patent [Patents]
Patents are a company’s greatest weapon in the mobile industry melee, and Apple just picked up a dangerous one: the coveted pinch-to-zoom patent. It could potentially cover a good deal, though probably not all, of your smartphone screen squeezing. More »
Is This the New Palm Pre II? [Rumor]
French site MobiFrance claims that this is the new Palm Pre II . It looks almost the same as the previous model but, according to them, the renewed WebOS 2.0 smartphone will come with a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. More »
Innovation: The smartphone’s shape-shifting future
The smartphone of the future might lose its sleek, solid shell to become soft and squeezable, able to alter its appearance to signal an alert.
Shwetak Patel, a computer science and engineering researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues have developed a squeezable cellphone – SqueezeBlock – using tiny motors built into the casing to mimic the behaviour of a spring.
… Shwetak’s team isn’t alone in exploring how a handset’s physical attributes could communicate something about its state. Back in 2008, Fabian Hemmert, a researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin, Germany, breathed virtual life into a cellphone. His phone “inhales” and “exhales” at a steady rate, which can increase suddenly to indicate an incoming call, or ebb away as the battery dies.
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Other squeezable cell phone concepts: -The soft phone concept by Qian
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Apple files trademar for catchphrase "there’s an app for that"
Apple filed a trademark application back in December 2009 for the company’s now ubiquitous catchphrase. [via stuff ]
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Apple files trademar for catchphrase "there’s an app for that"
A Look at the Desks of Some Extraordinarily Creative People [Video]
With a laptop, smartphone, and ubiquitous WiFi, do desks matter anymore?
