The PalmPilots That Never Were 56
harrymcc writes "Among the things that HP is getting in its $1.2 billion takeover of Palm are hundreds of patents for mobile technologies. Many are reflected in Palm's iconic products. But they also include odd keyboard designs, peculiar ideas like a stylus tip that converts into a joystick, and pre-Treo hybrids of phone and PDA that just didn't work. I rounded up some fascinating examples." It's worth clicking through the obnoxious slide-show format to see them.
Makes sense for Palm to patent lots of things... (Score:3, Interesting)
Okay, clicking through tfa (Score:3, Interesting)
http://technologizer.com/2010/04/29/palm-patents/3/ [technologizer.com] looks like a Handspring Visor module.
http://technologizer.com/2010/04/29/palm-patents/9/ [technologizer.com] looks like a ouija board.
the former is more interesting... I wonder how much of the tech unique to the Visor (i.e. the expansion system) was actually developed at Palm. Surely it was imagined there, but that's not the same thing