Sometimes it seems that Apple simply forget to have some products in the catalogue and that they remain there, real estate, until someone will remember them. For a comparison we take for example the ‘iMac: the first version G5, based on the design of its Cinema Display, is dated August 2004.

Since then the ‘all-in-one has been well-2 major restyling and numerous small updates. A big difference.

The ecology could, however, come to the aid of those hoping for new screens: the only reason that could push Cupertino to update the range, which apparently still sells well despite the obsolescence is’ commitment made by Steve Jobs to free Halogen of polluting technology in the near future.

According to the latest rumors, would be the Macworld San Francisco the most likely for the announcement: in January could end the long agony of the Cinema Display, a chapter a little embarrassing in the history of Cupertino…

The U.S. patent office has published a few days Apple signed three patents covering a single product: a laptop that can become a tablet. The patents have been filed by Apple in January 2007, and are thus following the launch of iPhone. The handset whose patents have the particularity of being converted into a tablet simply by sliding the screen to cover up the keyboard. In this way the user can decide depending on the needs to use the product as tablets or as a simple MacBook.

Once you’re back to talking about a laptop Multi Touch. Since years running networked computers rumor about this long-awaited by fans. The indiscretions, however, are increasingly precise and this could mean that the launch of this product is closer than we think… or maybe not!

Doug Field, Chief Technology Officer of Segway has left the producer of the special people mover two-wheeled Assigned Cupertino: ricoprirà Indeed, the position of VicePresident for Product Design at Apple.

Apple would seem to require anything but new blood in the field of industrial design: in the stables of Cupertino is in fact a horse race as Jonathan Ive, which for several years is awarded the prize as the best designers in his field. In reality Field not ruberà work to Ive, but arrives for alleggerirne the load: a Field will be the responsibility of daily work, while Ive oversee the work of the division.

The curious, which made this nomination unexpected, lies in the lack of consideration that Steve Jobs has expressed in the past for the design of the Segway. Put yourself in front of one of the first prototypes innovative means of transport, iCEO did not hide his disappointment: “I think it sucks!” Was the lapidary comment.

Clearly, Steve has changed my mind: good job to Doug Field, then, because apparently they have really need…