While rumors surrounding a Multi-Touch Mac Tablet have been circulating for a few years, these rumors became more and more plausible due to the Touch Interface that Apple introduced with the iPhone in 2007. A patent that was discovered Thursday detailed how a full size touch interface would work on a tablet.

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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.

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While we’ve covered games for the iPod Touch before, they generally require that you’ve Jailbroken your PMP first; it’s a hassle many won’t consider, especially when you factor in the potential effect on your warranty and Apple’s firmware updates being generally unfriendly to hacks.  Yet so far Apple has been slow to introduce gaming to either the iPod Touch or the iPhone, despite titles being available for other iPods in the company’s range.  A patent published this week could cast some light on that, however; it might be that, rather than being lazy, Apple in fact has been putting their time to good use by developing MultiTouch-compatible games that, rather than comprising simple button-bashing, demand a more naturalistic interface.

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