Apple patents multi-touch mouse

Posted on Friday, July 06 2007 @ 0:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget dugg up a new patent application from Apple for a touch-sensitive mouse.
This beast would allow for a buttonless pointing device which could sense the position of your digits for a myriad of gestural and positional control. Whether this is a patent to safeguard a brewing idea or actual product in the pipeline is anybody's guess. Surely this filing, along with those for a backside touch interface and touch sensitive bezel give us a clue as to Apple's product mindset. Multi-touch MacBook touchpads anyone?


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