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these are the top five future Apple products possibly we're gonna take a look into the future by way of patent violence Apple does a lot of work trying to come up with new tab so and protect itself by getting patents fun thing is patent filings are publicly available they even have diagrams so I dug through the last year or so to see what could be next from Apple let's get to it and number five is a power watch band officially it's called dynamic fit adjustment for wearable electronic devices the patent covers are wearable that you can interact with think like an Apple watch that includes a tensioner that were loosen or tighten the strap it's kind of like the power laces from Back to the Future 2 oh yeah Apple was granted this patent in October of this year at number four are the Apple glasses the images depict a pair of clunky glasses that allow you to slide in what looks like an iPhone in some ways if this is something Apple really wants to do it would explain why on earth Apple is obsessed with making the iPhone thinner and thinner and thinner because the end goal is to wear it on your face and if you're wondering why the designs are relatively ugly figures and patents are you too simplified to illustrate how it works it's not for marketing number three is a foldable iPhone this patent shows off a device that can be tented like a yoga laptop here the display is actually bent around the hinge this would allow two people to view the device at the same time this patent also covers a variety of devices including a tablet a laptop a watch headphones phones and more another patent held by Apple shows a really bendy iPhone looks like a squished mattress and number two is a windowed iPhone this one's kind of strange Apple has a few patents filed on electronic devices having displays with openings this figure figure 18 shows a device that would have a transparent window that may be formed from openings in the display the thing is that opening still has pixels from the display the filing says the display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display this patent covers a wide array of devices including tablets computer monitors and phones and at number one is some kind of scroll this patent is entitled electronic devices with retractable displays it covers a device with two housings that can be pulled apart to support a flexible display speakers mics cameras and other components would live in the housings magnets would keep the two housings together when not in use that just sounds incredibly cool now remember a patent is not a guarantee we will see these technologies in one or more products but it's always fun to try to figure out what's next who knows maybe Apple will have one device that combines all the patents we covered that be some kind of scroll with a flexible display that you can wear on your face and see through that automatically adjust to the size of your head that's just crazy for more top fives check out top-5 cnet.com mi as actor now see you online