Apple Patents More Five-Finger Gestures and Chargers With Built-In Battery Packs

The latest pair of Apple patents to make the rounds actually look like two that could be realistically implemented sooner than afterwards : one forum battery charger with an desegregate battery pack , andone for more five - finger gesturesin OS X.

accord to Apple , the courser / stamp battery pack combo would be for those times you require an emergency recharge and do n’t have an AC power source . An integrated mainframe would carry off the power distribution between what goes to the computing machine and what goes to the auxiliary barrage , and could even let in a USB embrasure for charge a 2d gadget . Apple even get ambitious and mentions the possiblility of introducing solar or wireless charging into the mix .

As for the five - finger gesture , Apple has a find a new use of goods and services for them . While they ’re currently using the five - finger reverse tinge to bestow up the launching pad in OS X Lion , the patent of invention indicates that a normal five - finger’s breadth pinch would zoom the screen out , give you a large-minded feel at all your capable “ distance . ” And it seems viable that the two actions could be meshed together at opposite ends of the five - finger’s breadth exigency spectrum . [ Apple InsiderandThe RegisterviaCrunchGear ]

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