Apple patent filing details touchscreen tablet
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 29th 2008 4:04PM
posted August 29th 2008 4:04PM
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posted August 29th 2008 4:04PM
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sweet mother of god what is wrong with that hand?
too much iphone does that to you
clearly the tablet is being used for porn. *lots* of porn.
"sweet mother of god what is wrong with that hand?"
It was holding a Nano.
I can't even decide if that is a hand or a leg? Is that a scratchscreen technology?
You'd think Apple would have at least one artist in its employ that could draw a decent hand.
Creepyyyyy !
That's a hand?? I thought it was the tripod alien from War of the Worlds.
[Insert witty yet hilarious remark about the hands drawn in this patent]!
Simple, the first version is only available on ET's home world of the Green Planet
It's a known statistical fact that if you draw anatomically correct body parts along with your perfect-perspective product patent lawsuits filed against you will be lost. No one knows why and the result is horrible, deformed hands and faces in the patent system. Go fig.
The hand can:
Blend
Play Doom
Play Crysis
Pick your friends nose
Point to it's home
Kill you with it bare..oh never mind
You have a lot to learn about patent filing. You are meant to be as vague as possible in your patents....that includes the illustrations so you can earn/get money from anything remotely resembling it. So in this case it seems this patent would even hold for aliens.
Timmy !
"Lib-a-la Timmeh !"
:P
he wasnt master of his domain
it's all thumbs!!!
"With his last ounce of strength he reached out to his multi-touch iTablet and indicated the name of his killer by way of a series of patented gestures"
its like the evil monkey hand from that Simpsons Halloween episode. It grants you 3 wishes but they all back fire...
wish # 1 multitouch...
Hand don't like iTunes!
@john.. i lold
From the look of the hand, this tablet can also be used to trigger the nuclear device to melt the Mars ice core and provide a breathable atmosphere.
my preeeecious!
The owner of that hand switched from Windows Vista because, due to the severe cramping caused by all the extra clicks and keystrokes required to do simple things in Vista, his hand simply couldn't take it anymore.
But his hand looks better than the Linux hand.
The hand model used is the husband of GTAIV lady.
Unfortunately, this patent does nothing to address the problem of mutant hands.
Yeah really, that's hilarious. It's guaranteed to be the first thing /anyone/ notices when they look at that patent.
I seem to recall previous Apple patents with similar art problems..
Apple copying Dell & IBM again...
Apple is a bit of a follower. Lets face it, an opportunist, a "me-too"company.
They have been filing so many patents of this subject. They better get something good out then.
Uhhh.... monster freak hands.
Humans have to evolve somehow.. but there's a great Hollywood blockbuster in there about a man who has commercially evolved.. hands.. and decides to break the intellectual property terms.
MUTANT HANDS USERS ONLY PLEASE.
Maybe the "claw-like demon-hand" is meant to instill fear in those who try to steal their patent.
Imagine what that hand would do... TO YOUR FACE!
clearly this was done by the same aliens who made the O2-atmosphere machine for mars
these patents are for a tablet PC that's strictly marketed for the arthritic mole people demographic.
I think someone's been thinking a little too much about Left 4 Dead's box art!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead
'Trying to divine'? What were you trying to say here?
divine has more than one meaning.
The more you know...
Unfortunately none of which fit into the context of this sentence, or article...The more you know...
divine 2 |dəˈvaɪn| |dɪˈvʌɪn|
verb [ trans. ]
discover (something) by guesswork or intuition : his brother usually divined his ulterior motives | [with clause ] they had divined that he was a fake. See note at predict .
• have supernatural or magical insight into (future events) : frauds who claimed to divine the future in chicken's entrails.
• discover (water) by dowsing.
1 : to discover by intuition or insight : infer
Seems to fit.
I believe this is the reason there is no copy/paste on the iPhone; I'm guessing Apple wants to leave the more computer-like functionality to a separate device such as this.
that makes no sense at all
Who knows?
Maybe one of the lead programmers at Apple wrote half the Cut Paste code for OSX in an evening, use it to cut paste his code - but hadn't got paste working. The permanently cut but unpastable project is rumoured to exist in the bowels of Cupertino to this very day.
I was not expecting to have a moment of pure horror when I clicked on to Engadget today. I guess there's a first time for everything.
Well, it wasn't the first time for me!
(Think urinal-cleaning blue elephant robots.)
those hands are from steve jobs back from the dead
Yeah, I'm sure engadget will tell us exactly what the effect of that accidentally released story was on Apple stock, if they haven't done so already..
In related news, Apple quietly announced the "reverse kill-switch". One early tester noted, "Applications come back...a bit different."
I just want a new macbook pro with a bluray drive and a decently priced ssd drive...