Although this isn’t a story about the iPod Touch, it is about Apple and multi-touch. Apple has just revised a former patent showing a curved desktop screen that will utilize many existing and future gestures.

The patent shows a screen that can recognize gestures done by the finger as well as your palm and whole hand. Pc joint has published the gesture uses on their site and are stated below…

- Need to move a cursor across the screen? Just slide your finger and it goes.- Want to enter text? Just start typing and the text is there. You even get the touch feedback as if really pressing the keys.- Need to erase some text? Use the backspace or just slide the finger backwards- Have to write or draw something? Just pretend you hold a stylus or pen in your hand and start writing/drawing.- If that is still not good enough, pick up the real stylus and start writing with it.- All these cool touch gestures that Apple has implemented in iPhone and is exploring further? You know, scrolling, zooming, rotating & moving objects, etc; They are here too- 3D object manipulation? Select a few 3D objects on the screen and use all 5 fingers on both hands to play with them.- Want to take a break to relax and afraid to put your hands on the touch surface? Don’t worry Multi-touch 2.0 thingy knows that and does not pay attention to your resting palms or fingers

Although this may be a farfetched idea, in an interview from about a year back Steve Jobs in an interview with rival Bill Gates said something about an interactive curved screen. Check this video out on YouTube. Could this be what he was referring to?