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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.
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."
I have a hunch that this thing is gonna be vaporware, one way or another...
Some of these news outlets are just not even trying anymore.
http://www.macrumors.com/2017/...
Science reporting sucks balls these days - how about a link to the actual patent.
Where is their new corporate headquarters? Is it no longer 1 Infinity Loop - the one you can see off the 280?
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
Like everything else Apple has done for the past 5 years, it's long overdue, it should be ready any month now, and it's way, way more expensive than the previous version while somehow failing to impress as much as the hype.
solid ink sublimation printing
or some sort of 3D printering process upgrade
desktop on-demand custom IC fabrication?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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.
No officer, I wasn't texting while driving...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
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.
Holy fucking shit... I had one of those.. It actually broke my desk with it's carrier sliding back and forth... And it would go over the same line 3 times to 'try' and mix the colors. 20 mins for a color print (that looked like SHIT!)
I remember when MOD was an audio format, and DOS wasn't a network attack....
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
Now we'll all be able to smoke whatever it is Tim Cook is smoking.
Does Apple evaluate its researcher on the number of patent registered? That may explains such stuff.
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.
And immediately after release a .1 version will come to fix critical bugs. Remember how Microsoft used to be criticized for using their users as beta testers? Well Apple is now doing the same
**Life is too short to be serious**
"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?
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.
Every time a company gets a new HQ, they seem to go downhill.
So what about a company that gets two new HQs? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=new+googl...
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
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.