Apple Inc. has just been granted US 7,800,592 for “Hand held electronic device with multiple touch sensing devices” that use sensors to determine the users’ identity based upon they way they hold it. Claim 1 is below:
A handheld device, comprising: a sensor arrangement comprising a grid of capacitive sensing points configured to generate a pixilated image of a hand of a user in contact with the handheld device; and a controller configured to determine an identity of the user based on the pixilated image of the user's hand generated by the sensor arrangement, and configure the handheld device in response to the identity determination according to user settings stored in a user profile associated with the determined identity.
Apparently the idea is to personalize the user-input locations (i.e. buttons, etc.) and settings based upon the way you grip the device. This sounds pretty cool, but all you miscreants may still prefer Android phones- remember Steve Jobs recently dropped this gem:
“We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy [an] Android phone.”
The folks in Mountain View are watching . . .
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