May 01
Smartwatches are emerging as a major player in the next phase of mobile computing, but for now, their capabilities are handicapped. A new technology called ZoomBoard explores a way you could actually type on a tiny smartwatch display.
Apr 17
Imagine what we can do with 1,000 times more Moore’s Law horsepower. There’s almost certainly that much life left in it. Catmull and I and our colleagues did the movies, but I can’t even imagine what other innovators will do. …
Apr 02
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has told Apple that it cannot enforce its famous “rubber banding” patent because the feature, as cool as it might be, is not a novel idea. The decision hands Samsung a small victory in …
Mar 29
The patent office publishes oodles of Apple patent applications each week. It also grants a ton of them, allowing Apple to protect its IP against competitors. Whether it actually uses any of that IP in its products is another matter …
Mar 28
When the chips are down and it looks like a company is on a one-way trip to shutdown town, you often see a Hail Mary product. It’s the long shot, the one thing that could save the company. Sometimes it …
Mar 21
What makes the problem worse is that we’re forcing the GUI into a mobile-interface world even as the information and tasks available to us continue to increase. Whether it’s because of available real estate or the desire for invisible design, …
Mar 21
Apple wants to give Siri a distinct personality and AI to make interacting with her more natural, and it is capitalizing on our tendency to anthropomorphize things to remake its digital assistant. If it succeeds, Apple will revolutionize how we …
Mar 14
Future iPads could ditch Apple’s Lightning dock connector in favor of an even more seamless way to power the device: inductive charging through its magnetic Smart Cover.
Mar 08
The latest BlackBerry 10 handsets could have been really cool dual-screen smartphones. Instead, they’re the same ol’ rectangle everyone else is using.
Mar 05
We may soon see a day when your iPhone and iPad physically deform at your touch and your MacBook has a disappearing keyboard, according to a patent Apple has been granted.
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