Apple Patent Application Reveals Moldable Charging Dock for Media Devices

[Digitalclips]

Totally fake. You know Apple submits these bogus ideas and patent applications just to trip up their "competition". There's no way in hell they'd ever make something like this. I call bluff.

You just read my mind! I was reading through the thread and thinking what if Apple take out a few patents that are totally retro just to send the M$ department of 'copy all that Apple do' off on the wrong track. LOL

Regarding comments claiming Tesla's work was a dead end - This is worth a read: http://www.witricity.com/

My farther, an 'old school' physicist, still tells me this is a con but it seems they have found a way to solve many of Tesla's problems. However, I do wonder why every iPhone and MacBook isn't using this technology if it is as good as they claim!

 

[AKmike]

Someone else already brought this up, but Belkin has a product just like this at bestbuy right now.

 

[Vulpinemac]

There's nothing wrong with them, and no reason to advance them yet. At all.

"Those blasted Iron Horse thingies are just too fast! They'll steal your breath and suffocate you!"

"Why would we ever want one of those blasted 'Horseless Carriage' type things? There's nothing wrong with horses and no reason to stop using them!"

"If Man were meant to fly, God would have given us wings!"

"Nobody can go faster than the speed of sound!"

Need I continue?

 

[Snowy_River]

I'm really surprised that no one has realized what this is. This isn't memory foam or a counter weighted pin bed. No, this is something that we should all dread. It's the discovery of liquid metal! In time, there will be one of these in everyone's home, then, when Judgement Day comes, these will all morph into T-1000 terminators to KILL US ALL!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


Sorry, I couldn't resist...

 

[aucl]

I'm really surprised that no one has realized what this is. This isn't memory foam or a counter weighted pin bed. No, this is something that we should all dread. It's the discovery of liquid metal! In time, there will be one of these in everyone's home, then, when Judgement Day comes, these will all morph into T-1000 terminators to KILL US ALL!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Maybe magnetic liquid + magnetic fields? it's cool stuff(!!!)

 

[Digitalclips]

"Those blasted Iron Horse thingies are just too fast! They'll steal your breath and suffocate you!"

"Why would we ever want one of those blasted 'Horseless Carriage' type things? There's nothing wrong with horses and no reason to stop using them!"

"If Man were meant to fly, God would have given us wings!"

"Nobody can go faster than the speed of sound!"

Need I continue?

You forgot "No rocket will ever escape Earth's gravitational pull".

 

[opinioncircle]

I was at the Apple Store in downtown SF a couple of days back, and was looking to purchase a dock for my 5G iPod. And then I left myself wondering, how come Apple hasn't really updated its dock.

When you look at the offering, it's a plasticky version of the dock that doesn't fit with the current line (except for the unibody Macbook), and then I got back home and checked it out. I feel Apple is going to come out with a whole new aluminium dock, however this may not be it. But I strongly think Apple will come out with a new dock for iPods and iPhones.

 

[scottness]

This just doesn't interest me. My current dock works well enough. I'll save my money for something useful.

 

[Vulpinemac]

This just doesn't interest me. My current dock works well enough. I'll save my money for something useful.

Proof that my earlier comment is valid. A 'Universal' iPod dock that can cradle any device that uses the iPod connector would not only eliminate the need for multiple dedicated docks, but also make docking and displaying a larger device easier and cheaper. In the long run, Apple would be creating a 'greener' technology by reducing the demand for the plastics and copper that are, in their ways, polluting the land, sea and air. Of course, that doesn't stop other companies from taking the easy way out.

 

[SkippyThorson]

"Those blasted Iron Horse thingies are just too fast! They'll steal your breath and suffocate you!"

"Why would we ever want one of those blasted 'Horseless Carriage' type things? There's nothing wrong with horses and no reason to stop using them!"

"If Man were meant to fly, God would have given us wings!"

"Nobody can go faster than the speed of sound!"

Need I continue?

Ah yes, the motorcycle, automobile, airplane, and bullet train - a perfectly direct comparison to the Universal iPod Dock! I never knew that it had an internal combustion engine though! How are those doing in the new fully electric cars by the way?

That was the most blown out of proportion post I've ever read. (You could if you wanted though.)

This is a freaking dock. Don't add a rubber top just to make it more expensive than it already is. If people think that's advancing, then let them buy it. I see this as 'just another thing to make just because'...

 

[Vulpinemac]

Ah yes, the motorcycle, automobile, airplane, and bullet train - a perfectly direct comparison to the Universal iPod Dock! I never knew that it had an internal combustion engine though! How are those doing in the new fully electric cars by the way?

That was the most blown out of proportion post I've ever read. (You could if you wanted though.)

This is a freaking dock. Don't add a rubber top just to make it more expensive than it already is. If people think that's advancing, then let them buy it. I see this as 'just another thing to make just because'...

But you see, that's exactly the problem--if what you have now is merely "Good Enough," then technology will never move forward, whether it's got an engine or is a semiconductor device. (By the way, the old Iron Horse was an External Combustion Engine.) If you really want me to relate this electronically, then let's try this series:

"Who needs AC? It's dangerous and will kill people!" Thomas Alva Edison

"Who needs transistors, vacuum tubes are fine." paraphrased

"We can't fit that big calculating machine in this Mercury capsule. Build it smaller and lighter!" NASA, trying to reduce the weight of the first manned space capsule (paraphrased)

"Who needs more memory? 640K is enough for anybody!" Bill Gates

"If I were in charge of Apple, I would shut down the company and pay off all the investors!" Michael Dell

Need I go on? Just because you can't see a use for something, doesn't mean a use doesn't exist. The article clearly pointed out that this was going to be more than just a 'rubber coated' dock--it was reported that this would be a self-adjusting universal dock for any device using the iPod 30-pin dock connector, allowing it to work with almost any existing iPod or newer--perhaps larger--devices.

Personally, one of my biggest complaints was that I needed to constantly change the adaptor to use my iPhone, iPod Classic or iPod Nano in the dock I have attached to my computer. If the rumored tablet device becomes a reality, the current dock I use becomes instantly unusable for the device, forcing me to either attach two different docks (four if I decided to provide a dedicated dock for each device) or get a self-morphing dock that will accept and properly support whatever is mounted.