You could probably fill the book with Apple obvious applications which never amounted to anything, but here’s a single that’s during slightest been postulated — the “handheld device” which uses capacitive sensors to recognize your temperament just by the approach you hold it, and subsequently personalize a device’s buttons as well as settings to your hand formed upon your user form. That’s all that’s actually been patented here, but a general idea is a little more grand — you could theoretically hold the handheld with either hand, and it would automatically generate “button zones” under any finger regulating sensors (or disappearing buttons, maybe baked right into a chassis, making cries of “you’re holding it wrong” hopefully blur into shade. Still, it’s not a first time we’ve seen Cupertino reaching for number recognition and we’re sure it won’t be the last, so we’ll only file divided our unrestrained until or unless Jobs announces it upon stage.

Via Engadget