Apple’s Hybrid Notebook Tablet
The patent filing includes details of an ultra cool display with a retractable magnetic mechanism that hides itself once detached from the MacBook’s main body. This is similar to the existing Windows 8 hybrid devices, but Apple’s design points towards rotatable display which may pivot from an open position to a closed position. Patently Apple, which caught hold of the patent fresh from USPTO talks about the hybrid’s touch display:
The coolest thing in the patent application is with regards to the transfer of power wirelessly from the MacBook base to the detached display. This is something really new and unique. It’s not exactly clear how the wireless transmission of power is achieved. Not all patents translate into actual products, but this one, if made into a tablet-notebook convertible, will be really interesting. Apple is always known to perfect an existing idea, and I’m very keen to know how the software part of it will be handled, considering Mac OS X and iOS are two different platforms right now.
