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iPhone 4G will Arrive with NFC Inside – Swipe That Thing

by Jay Garrett on February 20, 2010

Near Field Communication seems to be on the cards for Apple’s next gen iPhone looking at the new Apple patents.

Imagine being able to use your iPhone to open doors, as a travel card or to unlock your Macbook.

Late last year there was hinatge in another Apple patent that RFID and their Grab and Go app might be linked to similar effect, but it seems that Apple has decided to go with NFC tech instead – well, they might just be making sure both ideas are covered by patents.

It makes sense to assume that the NFC cleverness would then be ported over to the iPod Touch, Macbooks and Macbook Pro and the Apple iPad.

This could also be a good thing for O2 now that other providers are offering the Apple handhelds as O2 has already worked with Nokia on their NFC packing phones that double-up as an Oyster Card and a Mobile Wallet.

London Olympics organisers are also pushing that the NFC-based ‘wave and pay’ will be a huge part of the games allowing you to wave your NFC packing Barclaycards at burger vans, beer tents and merch stands to save you carrying around cash which, let’s face it, is so 90’s.

Everyone will be expecting something smashing from the iPhone 4G now that Microsoft seems to be flavour of the month with their good-looking Windows Mobile 7 and Project Pink Phones on the horizon.

What else would you expect to appear on the new iPhone?

Let me know your hopes and dreams for iPhone 4G

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YouTube to Add Gaming Portal

by Jay Garrett on December 30, 2009

YouTube could be increasing its web monopoly by also becoming an interactive gaming portal as well as somewhere to play 80’s music videos and clips of kittens.

The recent Google  patent application for a “Web-based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos,” was filed earlier this year but has only been published this month.

The Google patent points to a system where the creation of video annotations can be used for gaming-like mechanics and video behavior change.  I’m taking this as putting a game together that jumps from video to video based on your answers or responses or even will stop a vid at a point until the correct response has been made.

In their own words:

“Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video.”

What do you think to YouTube based gaming?

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iPhone Nano Patent – Proof of Coming Product?

July 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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It’s been a while since I’ve said anything about the iPhone Nano and I’m talking about that £60 number either!
But it’s time to bring the rumours back as a new Apple patent has revealed that Apple are at least toying with the idea.
According to this patent the device interestingly has two control surfaces.
MacNN says that [...]

Apple iPad Tablet Coming in October

July 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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Well, things went quiet on the iPad Apple Tablet for a bit but now it’s back and it seems to be backed up by fairly reliable peoples and it all seems scarily plausable.
China Times has added the heat with a claim of a 9.7-inch touchscreen netbook to debut as soon as October for around $800.
CT also claims [...]

Samsung to Give Their Phones Wings! Oh, and a QWERTY board

July 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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Wow!
A flying mobile phone!!
Well, not quite.
Looking at the article over on PhoneArena it seems that Samsung has patented a rather fantastic idea for giving your phone a QWERTY board.
Yup – it unfurls from the blowers body just like a pair of wings.
I’m not sure, given the keyboard’s position, how it would feel in the hand [...]

Peacekeeper 400 – The Patent Finished Knuckle-Dusting Purse

July 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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You’re a lady about town, you already have an Umbuster but need that little bit more to ensure that no ne’re do wells try to chat you up.
Well, this natty little purse I spied on LikeCool might be the ideal accessory.
Although it looks like a handy bit of kit the built-in knuckle duster featured on the Peacekeeper [...]

Apple iTunes Kiosk Patent Filed

May 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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iPodnn have posted up a recent Apple patent application that points to the creation of iTunes kiosks for local and remote media downloading in public areas – we could be seeing these media points in airports, malls, hotels and even on trams, buses and I’m guessing taxi’s eventually.
The idea seems to be that you’ll be able to browse [...]

Latest iPhone Patent Shows Video Camera and Motion Sensing

April 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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MacRumors have spotted Apple’s latest patent application for a new iPhone.
Loads of people, like me, can’t wait to see the much anticipated new iPhone and the new patent points to something pretty groovy!
On that patent diagram, the iPhone has gained a front-facing camera.
So?
Well, this means that you’ll be able to get down to some video [...]

CD Turntable – Good Looking or Pointless?

April 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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I hope that these are real and soon available – I’m just loving how these CD turntables look.
Pete Verrando is the man behind the CD turntables and, as you can by the text on the pic, these things of beauty are patent pending.
Now, are these actually going to work as they look – or are they just cool looking cases [...]

Apple Hides Biometric Scanning in iPhone and MacBook Patent

March 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple has sent in a patent that AppleInsider have pounced on like a hungry wildcat.
The diagram shows how the fruity one plans to hide fingerprint scanners in future iPhones and MacBooks without the need to ruin those minimalist lines that fanboys and girls love.
Their idea is to slip the finger scanners under the MacBook trackpad [...]

iPhone To Be Always On – Display Ever Ready

November 21, 2008 Click to read more →

Hmmmmm………Uh-oh!…something else to taunt the battery of the lovely iPhone!
Apple has apparently patented a new display technology that will allow their iBlowers to have always-on displays with almost no battery cost whatsoever.
OOoooo, tell me more
Only part of the display would be activated using a secondary backlight located under the main one.
According to Apple, [...]

PSP Phone Patent? True?

July 7, 2008 Click to read more →

How we love rumors and ‘patents’.
Is the PSP Phone going to be a Sony or a Sony Ericsson thing?
Could these be the real, pukka, official Sony Ericsson PSP phone specs? Click the pic to enlarge ;0,
Apparently this Sony Ericsson phone will sport a 4.3″ 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD display at 480 x 272 pixels and 16.77 million colors, 2 [...]

It’s a Flipping iPhone! – I call it the iPhlip

March 17, 2008 Click to read more →

It’s kinda groovy-funky but you’ll have to take this with a pinch of ‘Pat. App.’.
Unwired has spotted one of Apple’s recent filings; it seems to indicate that it may be considering the possibility of an ‘iPhlip Phone‘.
The application itself is for what is described as a “dual sided trackpad” which would be translucent and boast [...]