Apple patented an aluminum backlit keyboard for MacBooks, but without any characters

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a new application from Apple, which describes a new keyboard for MacBook laptops.

Here's What's New About It

The peculiarity of the keyboard is that it has the usual keys, but there are no symbols on them. So how do you know what to press? The backlight is responsible for this, the LEDs of which will display the values of the buttons. In doing so, they will be able to change the characters depending on what you need. It's like the soft keyboard on the iPhone and other smartphones and tablets: you change the layout yourself if you want a different language, numbers, punctuation marks or emoticons.

As a result, the backlighting on your notebook will display different characters on the keyboard, given the context. In doing so, each key will effectively act as a low-resolution display.

Also, thanks to the built-in LEDs, the glare around the edges, which can now be seen on any MacBook, will disappear.

In addition, the patent says that the keys themselves are not made of standard plastic, but of aluminum, as well as the entire body of the laptop.

Admittedly, the idea is pretty interesting. But so far this is just a patent, and whether Apple will bring this idea to life is unknown.

Source: AppleInsider
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