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Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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Changeable Keyboard

Dynamically Controlled Keyboard

Filed March 17th, 2007

This keyboard hasn’t shown up on any shipping Apple products, but if and when it does, it’ll make headlines–because the keycaps are tiny LED displays that allow any key to change the character it displays on the fly. Nobody’s put anything like it in a commercial PC, although United Keys makes an LCD keyboard based on a similar idea.

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