Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals

Apple’s always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can’t really imagine Apple has that pair of “products” prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it’s still fun to look. First off we have a MacBook dock that conveniently looks just like an iMac. Not much explanation is needed, you just slide the laptop into the side of the iMac and start desktoping away on the big screen.

The second patent deals with a quite familiar keyboard concept: OLED screens in every key. It’s not the first instance an Apple patent has overlapped with a Lebedev design, but who knows how it’ll go down whether Apple tries to build one of these Lebedev-ish ideas — Apple patented that keyboard concept about a year after the Maxiumus concept was first shown off.

Read - iMac MacBook dock
Read - Apple Maxiumus

 

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Original post by Paul Miller