Interesting Patent From Apple

Story posted on: April 16, 2009. Filed in: apple.

Have you ever tried to use your mobile phone when you were jogging? If you’ve tried it before, you should understand that pressing the buttons on your phone (especially if it’s a touchscreen device) is no easy feat, since you’re bouncing up and down. Apple has filed a rather interesting patent application, which describes a way where the size of the targets (i.e. virtual buttons) can be dynamically increased when it detects jerky motion, which sounds really cool. Of course, they’ll need to make sure it’s calibrated well, you wouldn’t want your icons to suddenly balloon in size just because you sneezed, right? Well we see such a feature in future iPhones?

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