Based on newly surfaced information, transparent smartphones like those teased in Iron Man 2 and those hand-tracking monitors made famous in Minority Report may eventually end up being “designed by Apple in California.”
Among a treasure trove of more than 60 patents awarded to Apple by the US Patent and Trademark Office, recently uncovered by Patently Apple, is a patent (US 9,830,844) for a transparent electronic device.
As illustrated in the drawings (below) accompanying the patent, processors, cameras, sensors, input/output ports, and other components of such a device would reside in the… more
Source: Apple AR: Patents Reveal See-Through iPhones & Macbooks May Be Part of Apple’s AR Future
