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What’s Apple gonna do with all that junk? All that junk in the next gen iPod’s trunk! I’ll tell you exactly what Apple is going to do. They’re going to drive us all crazy with the suspense until it’s released. A newly released patent suggests that the next iPod release will have a touch surface on its backside, with the front display being basically a wide screen non-touch display.
Is this a good idea? Perhaps, and here’s why. Without the main display being a touch screen, it would eliminate much of the matience and cleaning needed if you were to be touching the main screen all day. Can you imagine the fingerprints that would get on that thing? The back touch surface will navigate through ghost controls that will activate when the surface is touched and will rely heavily on force activation, or the amount of pressure applied to its interface. Let’s just hope Apple has a really good way not to have this surface activated by simply placing it on a table or something. — Andrew Dobrow
