Hinge Design

spartspart
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
I know I'm going to be shot down for this but what the hell, aren't these places for rumors? Keyword people, RuMoRs.



Anyway, I think that we will see some kind of product from Apple in the near future with a hinge design similar to fingernail clippers. :eek:
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  • Reply 1 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Please post a mock-up or drawing of how you would expect this to work. I'm siting here staring at these clippers and can't figure out how the design would be applied to Apple computers.



    <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 2 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Maybe he means that the new iMac will be like clippers in that it lifts up and turns on a 360 degree axis?
  • Reply 3 of 29
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    [quote]Originally posted by Macintosh:

    <strong>Maybe he means that the new iMac will be like clippers in that it lifts up and turns on a 360 degree axis?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Interesting....
  • Reply 4 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    .....and it clips your toe nails.
  • Reply 5 of 29
    murkmurk Posts: 935member
    iClip
  • Reply 6 of 29
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Didn't think about that part...open your (whatever)Book, and swivel the screen around. And btw, I dont mean for it to open in the traditional sense, just flip up the lever from being closed.
  • Reply 7 of 29
    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    This thread actually sounds interesting... :cool:
  • Reply 8 of 29
    tcotco Posts: 87member
    ..and after you swivel it around, you push it back against the laptop, screen side up. You then proceed to write on your new tablet
  • Reply 8 of 29
    mac glue sniffermac glue sniffer Posts: 128member
    Well, I kind of like the clipper hinge idea...



    But, I would love to see a self balancing computer from Apple that uses the Ginger self-balancing apparatus. Wouldn't that be wild? rofl
  • Reply 10 of 29
    majukimajuki Posts: 114member
    HHQ,



    What if the speed bumps are only modest? I'm hanging onto mine.
  • Reply 11 of 29
    neovirusnineneovirusnine Posts: 65member
    [quote]Originally posted by Hi Ho Quicksilver:

    <strong>Well, I kind of like the clipper hinge idea...



    But, I would love to see a self balancing computer from Apple that uses the Ginger self-balancing apparatus. Wouldn't that be wild? rofl</strong><hr></blockquote>



    My sister's iMac actually balances quite well... after all the days she's owned it it has not fallen over yet... even with the table it's sitting on being knocked into and everything... you think jobs stuck one in without us knowing?



    [ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: neovirusnine ]</p>
  • Reply 12 of 29
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    [quote]Originally posted by neovirusnine:

    <strong>



    My sister's iMac actually balances quite well... after all the days she's owned it it has not fallen over yet... even with the table it's sitting on being knocked into and everything... you think jobs stuck one in without us knowing?



    [ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: neovirusnine ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    hahaha
  • Reply 13 of 29
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    [quote]Originally posted by neovirusnine:

    <strong>



    My sister's iMac actually balances quite well... after all the days she's owned it it has not fallen over yet... even with the table it's sitting on being knocked into and everything... you think jobs stuck one in without us knowing?



    [ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: neovirusnine ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The iMac is a squat computer witha good center of balance. It takes quite a blow to knock one over. More on this idea: You press the screen down, slide it off, it becomes a web pad, just like when you take the lever off the clippers. This just keeps getting better and better.
  • Reply 14 of 29
    canadianmacguycanadianmacguy Posts: 47member
    [quote]Originally posted by Spart:

    <strong>

    Anyway, I think that we will see some kind of product from Apple in the near future with a hinge design similar to fingernail clippers. :eek: </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Interesting idea.. something like the <a href="http://www.danger.com/products.html"; target="_blank">Hiptop</a>, except with a little tilt to the screen?



    Might be an interesting idea for a flat panel iMac, but I wouldn't see how that would make it more useful.



    [ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: canadianmacguy ]</p>
  • Reply 15 of 29
    ameatameat Posts: 18member
    don't forget the keyboard swinging out and around like the nail file...
  • Reply 16 of 29
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    now this is a cool thread idea that's different from anything i have heard so far. i like the ibook using this, so that the screen faces up when flat - in essence a tablet. then lift the screen, turn it 360 to access the keyboard like a standard laptop. and if you just want the 'book closed, you just close it with the screen down.



    man, that could really work!
  • Reply 17 of 29
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    iClip...you mean iMovie 3?
  • Reply 18 of 29
    bobthetomatobobthetomato Posts: 665member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong> <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Please post a mock-up or drawing of how you would expect this to work. I'm siting here staring at these clippers and can't figure out how the design would be applied to Apple computers.



    :confused: </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Here's a sketch I whipped up quickly just for my own curiousity's sake.



    <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/dhindle/ClipperMac.jpg"; target="_blank">My quick and dirty sketch</a>



    I could imagine the Pivot tube being made of Stainless with an Apple logo on the ends, the screen can be angle adjusted or flipped for the tablet experience. Since the Apple logo is on the hinge, I thought the the back of the screen might look sharp with the Apple name printed on it instead of the logo. Since the hinge design would require substantial real estate below the screen, that seems like a good place to stash a stylus...

    Come to think of it, the whole unit could be metallic finish....



    01/02/02 Edited image to a link



    [ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: BobtheTomato ]</p>
  • Reply 19 of 29
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    bob, for god's sake, shrink that photo please. not all of us have 22" cinema displays.
  • Reply 20 of 29
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Not all of us have high speed internet either.
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