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Jeff Bezos’ new patent envisions tablets without processors, batteries

48 点作者 sk2code大约 12 年前

22 条评论

luu大约 12 年前
Isn't it odd that this is patentable? One day, long before this patent expires, all of the technology needed for this will be commonplace, and the idea will be obvious to any four year old.<p>I've heard that the point of patents is to incent innovation, but it's hard to see how that's happening here. It's not the case, as with pharmaceutical research, that R&#38;D resources had to be spent to generate the idea, demonstrate its efficacy, and prove its safety. That will be needed for the technology required to implement this, but, this patent actually reduces the incentive to spend R&#38;D resources on the technology necessary to implement it!
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bdfh42大约 12 年前
To quote the post<p>"Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible"<p>So you can get a patent on something you actually have not invented? Just something you would like to invent - or perhaps prefer that someone else invents so you can then milk them for royalties.<p>The world has truly gone crazy.
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chrischen大约 12 年前
"Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible..."<p>So when someone does the actual work of figuring out the hard part of this idea... they won't be able to use it because of this patent?
SoftwareMaven大约 12 年前
<i>Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible...</i><p>No, our patent system isn't broken <i>at all</i>. Whereas the patent system was made to ensure knowledge was transferred, now the people <i>getting</i> the patents don't even have to know how to build something.
grabeh大约 12 年前
Interesting that claim 1 appears to have been cancelled for some reason, perhaps due to being insufficiently clear. That's generally the broadest claim so clearly the USPTO saw fit to narrow the patent down to an extent, just not as greatly as would seem appropriate, at least from the other comments on this thread.<p>It's also a continuation and claims priority from two existing applications, although unfortunately, documents are not available for those applications, at least from the system I use which is generally fairly comprehensive[1]<p>[1]<a href="http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&#38;NR=2013069865A1&#38;KC=A1&#38;FT=D&#38;ND=6&#38;date=20130321&#38;DB=EPODOC&#38;locale=en_EP" rel="nofollow">http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDo...</a>
ianstallings大约 12 年前
Good news everyone. I just patented a way to float to work on a cloud of rainbows.
res0nat0r大约 12 年前
"The network is the computer." - John Gage of Sun Microsystems.<p>This looks like a newer version of a thin client. See the Sun Ray from '99:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray</a>
nsns大约 12 年前
Wireless terminals?<p>Logical conclusion: If you can patent a vision, without actually inventing it, then anyone can manufacture it afterwards, provided he/she doesn't <i>envision</i> it in the process.
jpxxx大约 12 年前
So by "without processors or batteries" we mean "with a processor and a battery". Check.
goldfeld大约 12 年前
So is he getting a patent on paper? How novel.
bsbechtel大约 12 年前
I just skimmed the article, but regardless the validity of the patent, this is where the tech world is going. When everything is connected to the cloud and all communication is ultra-fast, all you need is a device that can accept user input and output, and transfer it to a base station that processes the data. All computational functions and display data will be stored and transferred wirelessly.
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atirip大约 12 年前
I should be patenting living to 130 years old. All the 129 years old in the future would pay to my grandson through their wrinkled noses.
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efnx大约 12 年前
This seems like a repetition of the many terminals to one mainframe pattern. That said, companies like eink and pervasivedisplays already have 'epaper kiosks' that mimic this pattern with a transmitter acting as a middle man between your computer (or whatever generates the image) and the screen.<p>[edited for clarity]
gfunk911大约 12 年前
Obviously the patent is stupid.<p>But the idea is great, I've had this repeatedly. I carry around at minimum 2 devices that are mostly redundant. It's wasteful.<p>I'd like one "base device" (today it would probably be a higher-powered version of your phone) and several satellite devices.<p>A big screen that my phone snaps into or talks with is #1 on my list
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toddmorey大约 12 年前
Does anyone else remember the Smart Displays that Microsoft tried to popularize around the time of the TabletPCs? They didn't have wireless power, but that certainly wasn't because no one has ever entertained the idea. They did rely on the processing power of a PC, though.
SeanDav大约 12 年前
Congratulations to Amazon for inventing the dumb terminal. Clearly this is an original idea. /sarcasm
ebbv大约 12 年前
Not only is this not possible right now it's also a dumb idea.<p>So now instead of having one device that's easily portable to anywhere you want to go, you have the device plus a base station that you have to carry around. Oh boy! What an improvement!
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meepmorp大约 12 年前
Badly phrased headline - there is no patent, yet.<p>This is just an application. One which, with enough public input and complaining, will hopefully never be granted.
chenster大约 12 年前
Seriously? How could he file patent for technologies don't even exist? That's like trying to patent things appeared in a sci-fi movie.
negativity大约 12 年前
So, kind of like TV, minus the plugs or batteries.<p>(...and maybe VCRs that prevent you from dubbing VHS to VHS)
Payrovk大约 12 年前
This sounds like Doctor Who's psychic paper.
tokipin大约 12 年前
pretty sure this has prior art in Avatar