Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

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

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Integrated Monitor and Docking Station

Filed July 3rd, 2006

This much-reported on patent is for a MacBook Air-like notebook that you could stick into an iMac-like display, thereby converting it into a desktop–a modern version of the old PowerBook Duo. It hasn’t arrived as a real product as of yet. And hey, does that picture look like they just reproduced the inventor’s cocktail napkin sketch or what?

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