Anakha56 wrote:Pretty sure facial recognition has been around longer
According to the great brain yes, facial recognition has been around longer.
Anakha56 wrote:maybe not for unlocking phones though...
SO that means one may patent a door handle for opening a house door and a car door separately? Come on...
Hey this is the USA where everything can be patented...
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Apple Wins Patent For Curved Touch-Screens
Apple has been awarded another patent for something that is already on the market, even though it doesn't employ the technology in its own devices. The countdown to Apple suing Samsung and HTC begins now.
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* though to be fair, I have no idea how other manufacturers make their curved touch screens, and this one also seems quite specific. So what we have here might actually be a valid application for once.
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Apple Granted a Knockout Head Mounted Display System Patent
Apple invented a video headset back in 2006 and was granted a patent for it in September 2009. Since that time Apple has added a few inventions to keep their project evolving over time (one, two), with the most recent mention of a headset being noted in a patent application relating to hidden audio sensors. Over the weekend we covered a patent that Apple acquired from PrimeSense regarding an advanced headset to add to Apple's patent portfolio on head mounted displays. Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a knockout granted patent for a detailed head mounted head display that resembles the Oculus Rift which is the buzz of the gaming world at the moment. Apple's patent makes it clear that gaming is one of the main entertainment options for this device. It's also designed to be a personal display system so that you could enjoy full HD widescreen experiences on the go with your iPhone or at Home with your Apple TV. Without a doubt, it's the surprise granted patent of the year.
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Follow the link for further reading.
Oh and at the link is a patent win for a keyboard design .
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Anakha56 wrote:@GW I think Apple is trolling you now
Follow the link for further reading.
Oh and at the link is a patent win for a keyboard design .
Ok, now this, this is some major cattle waste. Nothing in the description of the application gives any sort of detail.
"The goggle system may include an outer cover, a frame and a display generation component. "
"The surfaces may be curved or flat, and may include one or more features for customizing or enhancing the appearance of the outer cover."
"The goggle system may include any suitable display generation component"
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D3PART3D wrote:I concede that Macs still suck. I used one for the weekend. The Air could be good though. (it's restrictive but the trade-offs make sense)
LOVE my MacBook Pro. My charger packed up a few weeks back and I had to use my company Windows 8 laptop for 2 weeks. Dark days...
ryanrich wrote:I had to use my company Windows 8 laptop
Well I see two problems right there.
One is that you used a Windows 8 laptop.
The second one is your CTO or whoever is in charge of making IT decisions at your company is a complete moron.
For me, it's always like a breath of fresh air when I get back to my Windows 8 machine after using my MacBook. But the Mac works well enough with the other iOS devices I have to keep me persevering. Perhaps one day I will finally understand the fascination with OS X.
ryanrich wrote:I had to use my company Windows 8 laptop
Well I see two problems right there.
One is that you used a Windows 8 laptop.
The second one is your CTO or whoever is in charge of making IT decisions at your company is a complete moron.
I installed Windows 8 on it to try it out, before I knew how crap it was. All this laptop normally does is download torrents, so I was too lazy to reload 7.
Sometimes I'm really amazed at all the Win8 hate. My old boss was raving about Metro and I strongly disagreed with him. I installed Win8 with the express purpose of proving him wrong and me right. Because of course I'm right, these kids with their stupid ideas are WRONG.
It turned out that I don't think Metro is that bad, and if I had a Win8 tablet I'd be using it quite a lot. However, what really took me by surprise was how FAST it is, both on my home E6750 and my work Xeon. The boot up times are fantastic, the file caching algorithms have improved dramatically and the entire OS feels so much snappier than Win7. And with installing Win8.1 to an SSD I prepared myself for some nice general-users-don't-know-this-look-at-me-being-all-geeky hidden tips and tricks to optimise the OS's use of the drive and... I didn't have to do anything. It implemented all the SSD tricks already.
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ryanrich wrote:8.1 with the latest update that adds a Start menu again is alright.
That added "start menu" in 8.1 is virtually pointless. All it does is take you back to the Metro UI. You could do that before by hitting the Windows button.
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Myerson, in a follow-up blog post, said he was describing futures that would be in "the next iteration of Windows." Again, that's intentionally vague, and could mean either a second Windows 8.1 update or Windows 9/Threshold.
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Myerson, in a follow-up blog post, said he was describing futures that would be in "the next iteration of Windows." Again, that's intentionally vague, and could mean either a second Windows 8.1 update or Windows 9/Threshold.
Well, that's what I thought, but Ryan seems to suggest that he already has this new-fangled Start Menu.