Patent hints at wireless iPod video conferencing

This is another one of the thousands of patents that are filed each year. This won't be the exact product.

Neal Saferstein

"I find it quite odd that in many of the illustrations for patents the pictured iPod is always a couple of gens behind the current one. For example, that looks like the first gen iPod to me - does this mean the patent was filed around the time of the first gen iPod?"

Holy stolen-my-engadget-mobile-comment batman!

So who filed the patent if it wasn't Apple?

Its gonna be a throw-back I-gab in fact add this: â„¢

Great!, perhaps in the future ill be able to teleconference direct from the crapper.

Well duh, they aren't going to show a schematic of what the new ipod acutally looks like eh? Of course they show and -old- model. all the ipod patents I've seen have used the same old 1st gen. It's just to get the "this is an ipod" point across. capiche?

A video conference would be interesting with a 1st gen iPod. They'd be pixellated and monochromatic. Or maybe ASCII art.

That's a very old ipod schematic they appear to be using.

I find it quite odd that in many of the illustrations for patents the pictured iPod is always a couple of gens behind the current one. For example, that looks like the first gen iPod to me - does this mean the patent was filed around the time of the first gen iPod?

What's stopping you guys from doing this website full-time. You are behind on all the stories lately, engadget beat you to it. That's embarrassing.