Apple Patents 'Chameleon' Computer Case

Dave B writes "The Register has been fishing at the patent office again and found that Apple has a new patent for "a computing device [which] includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light device disposed inside the housing. The light device is configured to illuminate the illuminable portion". While this gives us the exciting prospect of an iMac that is all five fruit flavors at once surely the original iMac with its glowing power button, or indeed a-thousand-and-one other electronic gizmos represent prior art?" Update a couple of users noticed this Slashdot Story from 2002 which looks familiar.

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Re:This IS news!

[caitsith01]

Perhaps it just shows how important a mindlessly biased and unquestioning fanbase is.

If Dell did it and not Apple, I would still think it was pretty nifty. But apparently you would turn up your nose and possibly publish a mini-thesis here about how coloured lights are a tacky, show off Windoze thing and no substitute for a nice white egg-shaped thing that can run OS-X.

I imagine a debate about how PC gaming lusers are the only target market for something so stupid would then ensue.

Your comment is quite depressing. Like Apple, don't deify it.