Tag Archive for 'patent'
There is some indication in some Apple MacBook Air patents that they are looking to up the number of ports on the notebook from 4 to 7-8. One of the ports includes and integrated Ethernet adapter.
Due to the horrible state of affairs of the copyright laws, no one can use your IP (intellectual property) for 70 years after your death. That means if you’ve copyrighted or patented part of a good idea that you were working on, no one else can work on it for 70 years.
iVoice have been crowing happily [pdf link] about their latest patent, which describes a new way of pestering those on medication to pop their pills. Titled “Methodology for Talking Consumer Products with Voice Instructions via Wireless Technology”, it covers individual medication bottles that have a wireless chip, microprocessor and speaker built into them, and which are given [...]
There are not a lot of things that creep me out, but the short list of things that do are usually strange and improbable. The implantable bionic eye however, makes the list. I know it would be helpful but the thought just gives me the willies for some strange reason.
In yet another bizarre twist to the unravelling OLPC saga, former-CTO Mary Lou Jepsen has established a rival company - Pixel Qi - and announced plans to develop and market a $75 laptop using low-power displays she patented while working on the One Laptop Per Child project.
An Apple patent for an iMac-like docking station lends further credibility to the ongoing rumor that the company is set to announce an ultraportable notebook in the near future, possibly even at the upcoming MacWorld expo. The patent (illustrated with this mockup image from Gizmodo) describes an base station with the same ports and connectivity [...]
I don’t know much of anything about the science behind batteries, but I do know that a battery life boost of 10x is something I am very interested in. Apparently the gist of what’s needed to get that sizeable of a boost is to change the platform or anode from the carbon that is currently [...]
According to a new patent filed by Apple, the company is considering applying some software to your iPod that will gradually turn down the volume at which you listen to your iPod for you. Sure it’s for your safety, but when you pay for a product, you don’t want the company’s software coming in and [...]
So this report from Research GMP Securities adds a lot of weight to this rumor, but its been around for so long that I am keeping it on rumor status until I see the damn thing. Nonetheless the people at GMP are reporting that they were shown exhibits from a couple different patent applications, the [...]
My god, Nokia Patents and Asus Eee PC news are about on par with each other this past couple of weeks. The difference between this patent and all the others is that this one depicts a phone I might actually buy.
