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Apple Patents OLED Keyboard
Apple's creative design teams are always going to surprise us with their innovativations not found in any other products on the planet and their recent patent filing in 2007 for an OLED QWERTY keyboard is starting to get some attention as of late.
With the increasing use of organic light emitting diodes - OLED - in devices today, Apple has proceeded to patent a dynamically controlled keyboard utilizing organic technology. It will be able to be mass produced since some of the standard components from traditional keyboards can be used in the OLED models. This means costs can be lower and made available simply enough for mass production if they proceed in that direction. This type of keyboard design would lend itself very well to media work, since applications like Adobe Photo Shop, FinalCut, Logic and more would be simplified due to the keys would each display more data on the keys...... or should we say touchpads?
OLED technology used for keyboard design, will ultimately lead to future styles that could easily incorporate a few added features such as; finger print recognition, video capability with AMOLED ( Active Matrix OLED )screens embedded into the keyboard plus stylized units using shaped FOLED ( flexible OLED) to vary the keyboard designs.
What are Oled's?
Oled's are solid-state devices which are composed of thin film layers of (carbon-based) phosphorescent organic chemical compounds imprinted onto a silicon; glass, or a polymer susbtrate..... which then emits light when an electric current is applied to the device. Since OLED's are emissive (they create their own light) it results in lower power consumption than traditional lighting methods today. The displays then become very crisp, bright, high contrast ratio, along with being super thin displays, as thin as 3mm in smaller displays up to 9mm. LCD's in contrast are utilizing a backlit technology, however the latest LCD's are now down to a staggering 9mm thickness for the newest HDLCD TV's, so LCD is far from being ousted from the number 1 position for displays worldwide for a few years yet to come.
Apple's First iOLED Gadget in the Works
The Apple OLED keyboard or most likely a keypad style will be super slimline with the keys having the ability to " morph " so the keys characters and functions are run via instructions from software. This would then mean that if you are using for example Microsoft Word, then the characters on your keyboard would change to your desired settings, than say if you are using Excel software. Another additional super feature is that the OLED keyboard's characters will also change according to the users language of choice that they care to write in. IPhones have a similar editing feature depending upon what mode you are in....like when entering email mode the pad changes to suit your need. Not too mention since the keyboard is backlit the user will be able to view it in low light conditions.
Patents can take a number of years to come to fruition if at all but as they make very clear....Apple embraces technology and they are superior in getting products to market....and fast! So it looks like 2009 -2010 and beyond will present some very interesting OLED inventions.
Patents can take a number of years to come to fruition if at all but as they make very clear....Apple embraces technology and they are superior in getting products to market....and fast! So it looks like 2009 -2010 and beyond will present some very interesting OLED inventions.
OLED keyboards will be available soon for all you gadget lovers but the price will definately be in that "new tech pricey range" as is normal for any new products debut period. I can't wait to try one out. What about you??
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