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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Smells Like a Mac

[flyneye]

Next,they'll patent the air inside for the smell of a Mac.How about the electricity that runs it.Hell how about the earth that provides the gravity to keep it in place?
Makes you wonder what life would be like if commodore or atari had won the old home computer war.smells like macintosh indeed.