Apple’s newest patent seems like a recreation changer for DJs By Joseph Foley revealed 29 July 23 (And digital artists.)

It has been an attention-grabbing week for Apple patent developments. Simply after submitting an idea for brain-reading AirPods, it is gained a patent for a sort of modular laptop computer that sounds prefer it may very well be unbelievable if it ever makes it into growth.

The patent describes a modular laptop computer that may be connected to varied screens, keyboards and extra, both bodily or wirelessly. Most intriguing of all, the patent documentation reveals a diagram together with a turntable (see our decide of the very best laptops for music manufacturing for present choices).

Only in the near past former Apple design chief Jony Ive designed a £50,000 turntable for the British luxurious hi-fi model Linn. With its glossy minimal design, we thought the product resembled what an Apple turntable would possibly seem like if the model ever made one. Now the Cupertino tech large has gained a patent for a modular laptop computer that would, it appears, be connected to a turntable.

We reported on Apple’s software to patent Modularized Computing and Enter Gadgets final yr. The patent has now been granted. The documentation submitted to the US Patent & Trademark Workplace describes an “enter machine” that would mix shows, a dock, keyboards and different peripherals, together with what appears to be like just like the traditional DJ’s favorite, the Technics SL-1200 turntable.

The documentation reads: “The computing machine could be utilized by a music producer, a disc jockey, an audio engineer, or the wish to generate music in a single configuration whereas additionally being modular to allow the person to take away the enter machine and removably connect a keyboard or second show to the bottom to supply conventional laptop computer performance. Thus the computing machine [can] be reconfigurable or modular to effectively accommodate customers in numerous operational purposes (e.g., music productions, doc preparation, on-line purchasing, video conferencing and so forth).