Posted May 11, 2007 at 08:46PM by Glen D. Listed in: Apple Tags: patent
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Heads up, iPod users! The future generations of Apple's uber-successful iPod mp3 players might just get the touch-screen treatment as a US patent was granted on the concept to Apple Corporation.

The patent describes an "electronic device uses separate surfaces for input and output. One of the surfaces (e.g., the bottom) includes a force-sensitive touch-surface through which a user provides input (e.g., cursor manipulation and control element selection)."

This development caps a long-standing rumor that Apple is planning to go touch-screen. If the patent makes it to design integration, the iPod should get even more popular as touch-screen controls have proved appealing to a wide audience. It is still uncertain whether video iPods will be among those units which will get the technology integrated, but it certainly does show a lot of promise to take Apple's innovative ways a step further up the rest.


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   by ld_ruiz69 - 2007-05-12
 » Damn thats sweet

Wow I hope iPods Videos have touchscreen. Mine is kinda getting gay and I think I need a new one and this would be awesome

   by jchaike (Unregistered) - 2007-05-12
 » lol

how many times have we heard about this touchscreen ipod. as cool as this would be, i dont think the next thing on apples mind is touchscreen. it would be in apples best interest to create a ipod video that runs on flash, to make the ipod video as thin as the nano 2g, and have the battery last twice as long as the video with a harddrive. That ipod may be pricey, but it would sure be worth the money.

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   by tim123 (Unregistered) - 2007-05-12
 » microsoft

i bet five days from now, microsoft will copy them and announce a zune with all these features

   by ipodfan (Unregistered) - 2007-05-12
 » camera

do you guys see a camera in the back view i do :)


   Re: tim123 (Unregistered) - 2007-05-12
 » wow

thats concept art...
it isnt real
   by tims an ass (Unregistered) - 2007-05-12
 » so what

doesnt mean it wont have it buddy



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