Apple Patents Reveal Future IPhones Will Work For The Blind, Tone Deaf

Future iPhones might have a Karaoke application, fingerprint ID and RFID, reveal Apple patent applications MacRumors dug up. Apple also filed a patent for something called "haptic tactile feedback, " which will help users operate their phones without looking at the screen. The patent claims that with the help of a "grid of piezoelectronic actuators, a user will 'feel' different surfaces as their finger moves across it. "

businessinsider.com • 7.3.09 @12:00PM • Patent

Hayden Frost maybe it's just me, but in light of some of the other tech out there, how can these not be obvious. there's fingerprinting tech regularly on laptops. if it's not obvious to someone to put the same fingerprint tech on a tinier device, that person is an idiot. as for their "haptic feedback", all of those elements exist in other patents and tech on the market. they've tried air cells, physical pins, and many other pieces of gear. this is classic KSR combination of the prior art. 7.3.09 @3:09PM