Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You’ll Type Before You Do
• Share   • Read Later  Another day, another patent, this one
from Apple for a very curious sort of keyboard that might be
easier to type on because it’ll know in advance which keys your
fingertips want to hit.  No, not a device built by Emmett “Doc”
Brown (as far as we know, anyway), or pulled back through time
in a TARDIS—just a very special type of board with tiny inbuilt
tactile sensors capable of detecting what your spider-formation
fingers are about to tap before they actually do.  How’s that
make typing easier? Apple’s patent calls for a system that would
“flow air from the input device” to provide tactile feedback to
your fingers before they physically connect with each key’s
surface.  The second method involves a pneumatic (that would be
“air-related”) system wherein the keys would move in the
direction they’re pressed in concert with your key taps4, thus
lessening the force necessary to depress them.  Okay, sounds a
little pampered