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#15 Crazy Futuristic Apple Innovations in the Works Steve jobs It seems like Steve jobs is announcing something new and oemagic every other week. And those are just the products that make it to market. Pics) To end up with all those insanely profitable gadgets, Apple does a lot of tinkering. Sometimes its engineers invent the iphone. Other times, they invent things that are just plain crazy. There are too many patent applications flowing out of Cupertino to keep track of easily. Fortunately, theres Patently Apple, a blog dedicated exclusively to monitoring Apple innovation. We pulled 15 of the coolest, craziest gadget concepts Apple has been playing with over the past few months. oeibeam: Its not a laptop or a desktop; this projector-based oedesk-free computer would be a category unto itself oeibike: Everyone runs around with GPS chips in their sneakers nowadays to track their runs and share them online this is like that for cyclists oeicase: That heartbeat sensor is just one example of the wild smart phone casings Apple is working on oeicharge: A laptop with built-in solar panels! oeicomix: Records your progress playing a video game, then creates a custom comic book of your experience oeidim: An ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of your screen to fit your surroundings oeifluxcapacitor: An incremental backup system that Apple calls a time machine oeihypnotix: Displaying itunes content as a scrollable spiral. Trippy oeimac Touch: A home computer that could switch back and forth between touch mode and keyboard-and-mouse mode oeimagnet: This idea would bring the Magsafe plugs Apple uses on Macs to portable devices oeimassivemysterydock: Apples says this bad boy is a oedock Fixture for testing handheld electronic devices. Even Patently Apple doesnt know what to make of it. oeiprints: A fingerprint scanner for mobile devices. oeishow: Projectors built in to laptops! oeispecs: Display goggles for video content from a mini iphone or ipod oeitrainer: This system for the ipod would sense what stage of your workout you were in, and increase or decrease the tempo of your music to motivate you Via Business Insider Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati u

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