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iPod/iPhone Nano With Touch Panel?
Staska writes "A new Apple patent filing shows new directions for Apple's touch interface design. For smaller devices like iPod Nano, touchscreen interface may not be feasible — the screen is just too small for touch operation. According to the patent, Apple can still make full screen iPods and put a touch panel on the backside of the device with transparent controls on the front screen. In addition to iPod, patent filing also describes controls for the phone. ZDNet even thinks that this patent can hint about future touch interfaces for all Apple products."
...is that calls from the doctor can restart your pacemaker.
Hax-fu?
... now I'll own an iPod that I can scratch it to sh!t on two sides.
No telepathic UI. Less screen space than a Nano. Lame.
Like maybe a decent resolution and tilt/pressure sensitivity equal to a stand-alone tablet!??!
Yes I know it's a completely different tech and apple doesn't actually care about artists, but it'd be a whole lot more useful than a phone with no tactile feedback that will be even harder to use while driving a car, drinking your coffee, and smoking a cigarette at the same time.
Oh my god, I just had the greatest idea ever - the iNipple.
The idea comes from your post, and remembering putting my iPod in my breast pocket and manipulating it by twirling my finger in front of the pocket - a action that looks disturbingly like I'm feeling myself up.
People are always saying, "The only intuitive interface is the nipple." well, now you can have an intuitive interface for the computer!!! Apple must have some inkling of this, otherwise why would all their iPods have a nipple (a center button surrounded by a round, flat area)?
I envison a device that is like the analog stick on a gamecube, mounted on a soft, gel-filled mound that has touch and pressure sensors that could register button presses. They would come in pairs, and you would tweak the iNipple sensor at the top while squeezing and rubbing the mounds to type.
Now, people will be able to drive their car, smoke, and drink coffee while copping a feel on their iPods!! The commute will never be the same!!!
... as the iTouchMyself
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
Yeah? Well, I don't want my iPod yelling at me that I'm using it wrong!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo.-Enoch Root
Firewire is a failure?