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New head-mounted laser display patent surfaces
Just as you see white ear buds on many iPod owners, you may soon see Mac users with frickin' lasers mounted on their heads. This would bring a whole new meaning to the word "Machead."
You can read the patent application on the US Patent & Trademark Offices' website.
[via Engadget]


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Sietepestes said 5:12PM on 4-17-2008
Sweet. I always wanted one of these. Nothing better than wearing them on a monday morning so you can zap kill everyone that looks bad at you.
"Hey I like that Macbook Air..." -zzzzaAAAP!, "Hey! Your wife looks fine" -zzzzaaaaAAAP! "Hey Steve can I drive your Mercedes?" -zzzzaaaaaAAAAAAP!. Then you can download from itunes different laser patterns or you could suck people into your ipod touch... kind of like Tron but better. Then we could trade people on itunes... I tell ya, this could be sweet.
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Sabi said 5:19PM on 4-17-2008
yeah not so sure about that....
marcos said 5:20PM on 4-17-2008
Does anybody else see this going nowhere? I mean, seriously.
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Tom said 5:39PM on 4-17-2008
If this thing is even remotely close to seeing reality, the Apple design team are going to have a tough time making that one look good :)
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David said 5:41PM on 4-17-2008
Maybe an Apple-Oakley partnership? :-)
Pugho said 6:10PM on 4-17-2008
Hope they come up with interesting stories to view on this thing.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0114558/trivia
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steve said 7:54PM on 4-17-2008
Seeing as this story is about patents, I have to point out this "prior art" wrt. Strange Days.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
Rob Rix said 7:08PM on 4-17-2008
Neal Stephenson fans will immediately recognize the immense potential for would-be gargoyles everywhere. Sign me up: if I haven't ruined my vision after 14 years of coding, (and fully an hour with a Virtual Boy) it's gonna take this!
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Castle said 7:15PM on 4-17-2008
Every time I see a new "goggles" type device rumoured or previewed I get my hopes up, ready to go all Hiro. Sadly it's only ever a pale imitation of what it should be. If anyone can pull off the software side, it'll surely be Apple, though. The iPhone/iPod touch has shown that they're still years ahead of everyone else when it comes to interface design and ultra-mobile computing. All we need is someone to work out how to make the hardware!
Rob Rix said 7:26PM on 4-17-2008
I have my redneck katana ready just waiting for the day... (:
Shunnabunich said 8:14PM on 4-17-2008
Haha, I just finish watching Austin Powers on my PowerBook and I open up TUAW to see a post about frickin' laser beams on people's heads. :D
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katie said 5:08PM on 4-18-2008
cool
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