Apple launch New "Swipe-Gesture Patent" Application

Apple is a company well known for rolling out firsts in the computing industry. Their phenomenal success with multi-touch gestures on their iPhone and iPod touch. Apple boffins are not resting on their laurels as the company has had visions of improved touch screens floating around in their heads. On Christmas Day, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed an Apple patent application.

Just to get a better idea of things, the application explained that swiping leftward, rightward, upward and downward could be be assigned to inserting a space, backspacing, shifting, or inserting a carriage return. Makes me wonder whether this will revolutionize the way keyboards are designed, with so many of us getting used to giving a satisfying whack on the Enter key when choosing an option on the display. We will benefit from smaller notebooks in the future due to a reduced size keyboard? Only time will tell, but I for one, wish the Enter key can be maintained. Apple has high hopes for swipe gestures to be implemented beyond the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard so that users will be able to gain quick access to common keys.

More Information : Cnet, Coolest-Gadgets.