Clever Idea: Apple Patents Solar Panel Touchscreens

Apple's patents tend to make news usages offer hints about what gadgets the actual tech company is cooking in place and preparing to unleash on the particular fans. But today, news is thinning out about another patent that's better because of its environmental potential: touchscreens in solar panels built right in.

Obviously AppleInsider, the patent is for a very "integrated touch sensor and sun assembly, " which details a way for embedding solar panels underneath touchscreens – even the flexible kind. Those solar panels take the energy sucked far from light that hits it & pumps it into a device's power packs. Essentially, we could have an iPhone also an iPad that doesn't need in reality as much time connected to a sent charger – the sun itself will conduct most of the hard work.

Interestingly, the obvious also offers alternatives for how the pv panels will absorb light. Apparently the actual patent describes a way to embed the actual panels so that they're facing reducing, into the device, instead of out toward user and any potential beam sources.

So how does this work? Those patent calls for light channel computers, which would employ "a parabolic reflector" or "fiber optics. " About either case, light is being returned around within the device and piped within panels, where they can work certain magic and give the user more shock options.

Will solar panel touchscreens at any time actually be deployed? It's hard to presume: a technology like this is really good in a lot of ways, but at once, it also seems like the kind of thing that actually works well on paper, but maybe not so well on practice. There's little doubt whom trying to mass-produce smartphones with tough solar panel touchscreens would drive up the actual expense of productions, and Apple's appliances are already sold at something of a excellent. And rumors have been swirling whom increased production costs have short amount of the number of iPhone 6 frames devices whom Apple is planning on making this because of. Could you imagine how much more difficult the availability line would be if manufacturing plants needed to deal with this new patent as well?

As well as interesting as all this is, it's going to be a while before we start to look at this deployed – if it at any time is at all.

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