Apple Applies For Color-Change Patent

Secret300 writes "Apple is applying for a patent to release "devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance." If this is a success, it would considerably boost Apple's presence in the technology world." So, perhaps we can not only theme our desktop on the machine - but our *literal* desktop.

Uh oh

[X-BOX LIVE DEV TEAM]

Apple is applying for a patent to release "devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance.

So Christians will start hanging Apple computers around their douglas firs come December?

I can see the office pranks...

[johnthorensen]

Just what I need when I come in to the office...

finding that some joker has put my computer into "adaptive camoflage mode" and stashed it somewhere in plain sight. :-/

-JT

RICE BABY YEAH!!!!

[AssFace]

This would allow me to fufill my quest to fully rice out my desktop computer. I have swollen fenders on it, a pumping neon glow that throbs to the beat of ABBA, and of course the ubiquitous spoiler that keeps my computer from flipping over when I'm crusing.

If my computer could change colors as you walk around it like some of those wonderful paint jobs that I've seen on many a Honda Civic... well, then I would probably shit my pants with joy.
Come to think of it, and judging my that smell, I guess it doesn't have to be with joy.

I hope that having color changing exteriors won't cause them to give up hope of the slowest JVM, fire causing power supplys, and expensive underclocked RAM.

Whats your favorite color HAL?

[Ogrez]

Blue... no! GREEN!!... aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Re:Great

[moc.tfosorcimgllib]

> BTW, why the fuck can't we post in the last story?

I'm guessing because it's a story about the decline of quality education in america that uses the word "plase".

Mood Mac

[Anonymous Coward]

"I was like... Bummed... And my Mac turned, like, black and stuff..."

What would Ellen do?

prior art

[slothdog]

two words: mood rings.

I changed... color, that it.

[jeepliberty]

Move over, GEICO gecko, here comes the Apple Chameleon.

Apple Trying to out-do Microsoft

[MrCam]

Microsoft has niffty blue screen to tell you something is wrong with the computer. Now Apple is out-doing them by making the computer change color when things go wrong.

User: Hello.
Apple: This is Apple support, how may I help you?
User: My computer is flashing, and it is all black.
Apple: What is the pattern?
User: Three short flashes followed by three long flashes.
Apple: If I were you I would drop the phone and run away!

Re:Visuals

[overunderunderdone]

It would make every case-modder out there green with envy.

Only if they already have some form of this technology.

Patents are evil!!

[kakos]

Patents are evil. How can Apple do this? How can the patent system let them do this? ...

OH, wait. We're talking about Apple, not Microsoft.

This is great. This will be great for Apple. Hooray for Apple!

Michael Jackson?

[tommck]

Does this mean Michael Jackson's going to have to cut a check to Apple?

;-)

Re:This is rather nifty:

[jafiwam]

Yeah, Quake. That I won't be able to hide porn from my wife anymore simply because my computer screen faces the wall...

"Honey, what is all that blonde and pink stuff on your computer case?"

Santa provides prior work evidence.

[Quixadhal]

In recent news, Santa Claus has brought a string of chaser Christmas lights in to disprove Apple's patent on color-changing hardware devices. When properly installed on a Christmas tree, these lights cause the tree to change colors, and have done so since 1980.

"That Steve Jobs is going to be on my Naughty list this year", says a miffed Santa. "It's one thing to compete in the same toy market as I do, but it's another to try and muscle ME out!"