Apple should take advantage of the structure of its MacBooks to serve as a charger for the batteries of other mobile devices. The novelty appeared in a patent that is not alone, as the document also indicates the presence of some type of sensor in the keyboard to detect the presence of the user's fingers.
Regarding the second feature, the patent describes the use of the keyboard as an area sensitive to the user's touch. With this, Apple can transform practically the entire base of the MacBook into a touch surface to interact with all the items displayed on the user's screen.
This feature has already been explored on other devices, especially on the latest smartphones created by BlackBerry. On these cell phones, the physical keyboard below the screen is also used as a touchpad, thus allowing you to control the cursor in a text editor, for example.
MacBook keyboard can be in touchpad format
In the case of Apple, the user's wrist rest area can be activated through the touch input location. It would be like having a touchpad the size of the entire bottom area of ??the notebook.
The location for charging the iPhone, according to the patent, is at one end of the wrist rest area. The document indicates others that are very similar and that reinforce this idea, but does not describe with what technology the energy will be transferred by induction ? it could involve the QI standard, or some extra and exclusive feature, such as Apple's own recent MagSafe.
The patent indicates other uses for the location on MacBooks. The list of extra proposals involves the insertion of sensors capable of reading heartbeat, blood oxygenation level and even body temperature.
