- Apple has patented a radical overhaul Apple Watch
- It reveals a new unique foldable design with two interior screens and an outdoor screen
- It also has a camera, and even turning and sliding elements
A new patent has revealed that Apple envisages a radical overhaul of the Apple Watch which would offer a foldable double screen screen and a camera.
The patent, harmlessly doubled “portable electronic device”, was filed by Apple in September 2023 and published today, March 20.
First spotted by Parelyapple, the deposit reveals a portable device “including a fixed part and a mobile part” with a display set, and an optical sensor, probably to register when the display is open and closed.
The Brevet text notes that even the best intelligent watches available today “are limited in terms of size and screen functionality compared to their smartphone counterparts”, and are as such favorites for many devices.
Apple highlights a “constant need for improving the functionality of portable electronic devices”, hence its overhaul proposed by the base.
Is this the Apple Watch of the Future?
The usual dense patent language is completed by images that clearly reveal Apple’s vision for a smartwatch of the future.
It refers to a device that contains both an outdoor screen and an interior screen, the latter being two hidden displays inside a folding mechanism similar to any foldable smartphone that you could be familiar.
Such iteration of the patent includes a “continuous” display, a unit joined by a folding mechanism, rather than two separate displays which comply with each other.
There is also a reference to a mobile rotary part which can move around an axis, as indicated in the image above.
Another part of the patent refers to the outside And Installed cameras pairing that could be used to take photos and respond to facetime calls.
As you can imagine, this bizarre overhaul of the Apple Watch is far from being released, so don’t expect to see an ultra 3 folding Apple Watch with two cameras.
However, Apple at least explored the idea of revising the design of the Apple Watch. By nature, its form factor is small and limited, therefore a folding display mechanism could be a new solution to solve this problem.
Another recently revealed patent show envisages monitoring of blood pressure powered by a sensor filled with liquid in the Apple Watch strap.
Of course, this is simply an idea engaged in paper at this stage, and can never see the light of day, but it is certainly an attractive look behind the scenes of the way Apple considers the conceptions for future technology, in particular its portable devices.
