Images: Apple's Origami-like keypad?

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  • Apple touch-screen patent

    Apple touch-screen patent

    This drawing, contained in a patent application filed by Apple Computer, appears to show a touch-screen keyboard that could be used to enter data on a UMPC-like device.

    Microsoft has its own UMPC, or minitablet, project, called "Origami."

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Origami keyboart

    Origami keyboart

    Microsoft's Origami project plans to use a similar-looking QWERTY keyboard, but its design splits that keyboard into separate halves on either side of the screen.

    Read for more on the patent.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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Compare these: A touch-screen keyboard described in an Apple patent and Microsoft's Origami keypad.

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Apple touch-screen patent

This drawing, contained in a patent application filed by Apple Computer, appears to show a touch-screen keyboard that could be used to enter data on a UMPC-like device.

Microsoft has its own UMPC, or minitablet, project, called "Origami."

Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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