Apple patent hints at touchscreen iMacs and MacBooks

This new patent application might provide some intriguing clues as to what Apple is planning for its next big innovation. Read the blog post, "Apple's next big innovation: The iMac Touch?" and check out these excerpts of drawings and explanations to see what might be on the horizon.

FIG. 1 shows the computer system 100 oriented for a keyboard/mouse input mode. That is, in this particular example embodiment, when display 103 is oriented relatively upright, high, and further away from the user, a keyboard/ mouse input mode is selected.

Image and summary taken from U.S. Patent Application number: 12/171,147 - Digitized by Google