Ever since the rise of Apple’s touchscreen devices, it’s seemed only a matter of time until a touchscreen MacBook arrives. But those who wince at finger-smeared screens may not need to worry — a newly uncovered patent suggests Apple is more interested in revamping the bezel.
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If you look at all the far fetched rumors, going as far back as two years, most will predict that Apple is either launching a full fledged HDTV set or launching a smartwatch in the very near future. Both products haven’t materialized as yet, and aren’t expected to anytime soon. These days though it seems that Apple has its sights on the medical arena. The company is reportedly working on a device that could predict heart attacks, and it has also patented earbuds that have sensors in them for tracking vital fitness related data. This setup could work, given the fact that most people already have earbuds in place whenever they’re working out or on a run.
Apple Patents Earbuds With Fitness Sensors original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Lately, all the talk has been about the fitness-tracking, health-monitoring smartwatch
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today published an Apple patent application that describes a method which uses automated “disposable” email addresses to curb spam. According to the patent titled “Disposable email address generation and mapping to a regular email account,” this system would work at server level to weed out any incoming spam to the user’s primary email address.
Apple Patents Method To Curb Spam With ‘Disposable’ Email Addresses original content from Ubergizmo. 
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You might not expect the United States Patent and Trademark Office to be as excited about the Winter Olympics as it is. But this month, office is releasing historic patents that reveal how winter sports emerged. So, who invented the snowboard?
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This week a seemingly run of the mill bit of patent litigation has lit up the Apple analyst boards as the company’s A7 chip has been placed at the center … Continue reading
Late last year, Twitter was on the receiving end of a letter from IBM claiming the microblogging website was infringing on three of its vast trove of patents. IBM proposed … Continue reading
Last year, Bloomberg reported
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Apple has filed for a new patent related to iPad smart bezels. The idea is to transform the bezels on its tablet into areas that are capable of recognizing touch input, thus extending the range of functions and gestures available to users. This would certainly make the bezels much useful, though in the filing indicates that the tablets will have larger bezels. The iPads have had larger bezels in the part, but in recent models Apple has made them thinner. Either it would find a way to make this functionality work with significantly thinner bezels, or this is going to be one of those patented technologies that never see the light of day.
iPad Smart Bezels Patent Filed original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Immediately following the announcement of their sale of Motorola’s non-patent bits to Lenovo, Google explained a bit about what they’d be doing to move forward from this point through 2014. … Continue reading
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