Apple Patent - Illuminated Touch Pad for Visual Feedback
January 25, 2008
A Patent for Apple was filed August last year and approved yesterday. The patent is for an Illuminated Touch Pad which appears that the light panel will be capable of emitting light in localized areas of the input surface. What this means is basically visual feed back which when you touch the scroll wheel on an iPod, the touch wheel will light up under your finger to visually show what just happened with the light actually following your finger around the dial. As well as the touch wheel being illuminated, the button in the middle will also light up too to show the actions on what it is doing.
Via: Patent Applications
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Interesting post. I was reading about Apple’s patent for the personal computer http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/180 earlier and it seems apple is still going strong the during the time it was started. Apple is a tech revolution.