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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Computer Controlled Display Device

Filed December 19th, 2003

Here’s what seems to be an iMac That Never Was: one with a fully-articulated gooseneck armature rather than the hinged one on the second-gen iMac. It looks even more anthropomorphic and Luxo Jr.-like than the iMac it might have replaced. History, of course, showed that Apple chose to release a less out-there one-piece iMac instead.

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