Apple hides the physical buttons under the flexible screen
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Today, Apple has received a patent for the technology is quite fantastic. The paper describes mechanisms for interaction with a flexible screen, the device converting the various elements in the relief surface. It can be used not only to provide tactile feedback from the keyboard, but also the creation of the function buttons. Reported AppleInsider.
For several years now, all the people are talking about flexible displays. However, the real need for their use in mobile devices is still no one has found. The exception to the rule has become Apple's, which decided to go a slightly different way than the other companies.
New Apple patent describes the different ways to use flexible displays. This will not only add volume elements of the interface, but even the creation of functional buttons as needed. For example, the key "Home" could be hidden most of the time, but when you unlock the device it would appear. Thus, the device would be ideal to keep the surface flat, that you will agree, it looks interesting.
The ability to create keys on a flat surface, of course, a cool and useful trick. In the long term, this may mean a complete rejection of classical physical keyboards. A patent may be used not only in the iPhone and iPad, and even Mac.