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Apple Patents a Vaporizer (cnn.com)
Apple's product lineup may extend beyond cars and the connected home. A patent filed last year and published January 26 reveals a concept for a vaporizer. From a report on CNN Money, shared by reader JoshTops: The details are a bit hazy -- that is, Apple's patent only describes "a substance that is to be vaporized or sublimated into a vapor," not what the substance might be. The patent, filed by Apple employee Tetsuya Ishikawa, outlines plans for a temperature-regulated plate inside a chamber that heats up a substance to form a vapor. Many people use vapes to inhale nicotine or marijuana, and they are sometimes used as a replacement for cigarettes. The FDA began regulating vaping last year, and set rules for the manufacturing and distribution of vapes and their components. Vaporizers are also used in industries like healthcare and agriculture, so it's possible Apple is thinking bigger than personal use.
iOdor is going to be released.
The hot new trend for today's sedentary billionaires is vaping cash. Why bother with the physical exertion of swimming in your money bin, when you can simply vaporize your money and inhale it instead.
is full of some kinda vapors.
Courage.
iVapor.
Apple internally working on a pot project explains a lot of the output coming from there recently. It's sure better than the alternative explanations.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Samsung Note 7
Every time a company gets a new HQ, they seem to go downhill.
I have a hunch that this thing is gonna be vaporware, one way or another...
Sorry your hand got vaporized. You'll just have to buy the new model.
and manufacturing process
But how are they going to force you to download it through iTunes?
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Some of these news outlets are just not even trying anymore.
http://www.macrumors.com/2017/...
Oh wait, yes, I can. I wouldn't want to pay double for a subpar product with all of the good features stripped away for a more consumer "friendly" product.
Fill with "magic smoke" smelling stuff and let it out about two days before Macworld.
Science reporting sucks balls these days - how about a link to the actual patent.
That is all.
It sounds like Apple is going to have to get their fans addicted to something stronger than Kool-Aid to keep the reality distortion field going.
If you look at the patent, it's to deposit a substance to a semiconductor wafer with photolithography for IC fabrication.
http://www.macrumors.com/2017/...
Loren Osborn
I'll bet its for smell-o-vision or some such device.
Vapor deposition is a widely-used method in electronics fabrication.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
The patent can be found here. As some other have mentioned this cold be used for anything such as in manufacturing.
so people will be able to inhale the kool-aid instead of drinking it.
-dirtbag
No officer, I wasn't texting while driving...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Thats what apple has been running on for the past few years.
Apple is going to vaporize its rivals?
Apple just invented the floating wick candle
The Patent claim:
A chamber body [check]
is to receive therein a substance that is to be vaporized or sublimated into a vapor. [check]
A plate whose bottom face rests on the substance inside the chamber body [check]
is temperature regulated, e.g., using a heater therein, [check]
which releases heat directly above the substance that lies below. [check]
The plate slides downward as the substance is consumed [check]
by vaporization or sublimation. [check]
Other embodiments are also described and claimed.[others better check]
They are probably planning to vapourize anyone who criticizes their products.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
How could this patent hold any value at all?
It's VERY general, there is apparently absolutely nothing unique or innovative about it, and it is so basic that there is already prior art going back centuries. Challenging it would seem trivial.
reinventing the eyetoke
And want us to die. Why else would they build this terrible contraption if not to vaporize human beings? Those merciless people at Apple are contriving to implement the final solution for us 99 percenters. Oh, the huge manatee! The huge manatee!
Now we'll all be able to smoke whatever it is Tim Cook is smoking.
CBS/Paramount own that Patent and would sue.
My e-cig already does this. It also reads airflow to determine if the vapor is at the specified temperature. This e-cig is an H2Ohm Slice. There are many other e-cigs that do this as well.
Talk about Apple exploiting prior Chinese art and methods!
Such is the USA with its first to patent, rather than first to exploit!
first up the entire description of the patent is identical to an existing product on the market for at least the last three years !
pax vaporizers anyone?
they work like a hot damn for any dry leafy material. even has a nice little variable heater plate (pax calls it an oven) temerature setting.
USPTO is corrupt ...
feel free to mod me down, eh!
Any idiot company(i.e. all) is rewarding and even putting patents on the yearly goals / performance review for their employees in the hopes to win some court cases or harass some other company based on it. I've been in several companies that do this.
They are not an hint of company future plans in any way.
You really need to stop monitoring the patents as a source of news. But I know the starved media will still do it anyway. My only hope is that a few get to know the truth and threat these "news" accordingly.
Does Apple evaluate its researcher on the number of patent registered? That may explains such stuff.
iVaporware
can't believe you guys missed it...
As amusing as it is to contemplate the douchepocalypse an Apple vapor would entail, the patent is clearly for chip manufacturing and the guy who filed it is one of Apple's chip people.
Remember, Apple is very big into custom silicon, and like everything else they want control of every step of it and that includes how the chips are made.
"Apple Patents a Crack Pipe".
I believe that this will pave way to the next big thing: iExit -- portable suicide booths and iEugenics -- previous obsolete generation remover.
Tim Cook is hell-bent on vaporizing those damned elusive unicorns.
Could Apple be betting big on VR growth? Full immersion will surely proceed in steps if it succeeds at all. A huge component will be the delivery of realistic odors. Imagine having to buy your concentrate cartridges from Apple, yuck.
You don't need to drink, just breathe it in - courageous!
"Vaporizers are also used in industries like healthcare and agriculture, so it's possible Apple is thinking bigger than personal use."
Hardly. Selling a vaporizer to 10.000 cash-strapped hospitals vs. selling an iVap to 7,5 billion individuals?
He's getting rid of at least 75% of federal regulations. If you love your country, make sure he knows to rip these away too. The FDA can fuck itself raw.
It's for Smellavision
Will there be any drivers or software updates for this or will they just be... ...*shades*... ...vaporware?
Wouldn't it be great if it were a device to sublimate intelligence onto the brains of idiots?!
(And you know about those that I refer to!)
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
You don't have to be a complete moron to hate Apple - but it sure helps.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.