Sunday, June 8, 2008

It would be so cool if I'm right

Does anyone remember, quite awhile ago, we were told Apple had patented cool new LCD displays with image sensors in between the pixels? This would essentially give you a user-facing webcam. Why has no one speculated on how stupid this is for a computer, and how ingenious it is for oh, say, a mobile phone? Imagine Steve Jobs introducing the new iPhone, with no front-facing camera spot anywhere on the face... disappointment will OOZE from the crowd, until he demos the new iChat Mobile with an "InvisiCam"! That would definitely be a jaw-dropping, Jobs keynote moment. I'm probably wrong, but I'd sure like to be right!

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