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Have you ever imagined how iPhones would look better without the "stripes"? For Apple is thinking about it!

Patents these days mean absolutely nothing. Due to the technological war that we are going through, many companies including the most innovative ones we know, such as Apple, Google, etc. they simply go out patenting everything that appears more to protect themselves than anything else. But, from time to time, one appears that in fact indicates a possible path that the company may take. And precisely the case of the American patent 201,501,671.93, from Apple, as informed by the Business Insider.

It is described as a “transparent radio frequency material in the capacitive with an anodized metal appearance” and could easily be used on iPhones to rid us once and for all of the traditional and, in my opinion, ugly stripes that serve as the device's antennas. Nowadays, if these plastic stripes did not exist, radio waves would not be able to pass through the metal (device housing) to send / receive signals.

IPhone mockup without antenna streaks

Because if the technology of this patent is even implemented by Apple, future iPhones could have a much more visual clean, similar to what we see on iPod touch. Also according to the patent description, Apple could apply this technology in several other products (such as coating the touchpad of Macs so that it becomes more elegant / unified, use on touch screens, etc.).

I hope so much for that to happen!

(via iClarified)