At its surface , a recently expose Apple patent software describes a Motion Based Input Selection . But a secretive look bring out that Apple wants the iPhone to become your life ’s omnitool .
Using near field communication — or RFID , which is n’t in the current craw of iPhones — coupled with a cute , onscreen UI ( like a compounding lock ) , Apple ’s patent discover a future in which iPhone users open up their front doors and even pay for their next iPhone with a 3 - dactyl pin tumbler . Many have already dub it the “ iKey . ”
I ’m not sure that I could digest waiting at Walgreen ’s while the guy in front of me attempted to exert the iPhone ’s accelerometers with enough sleight to purchase some antacid and the latest edition of Sport Fishing . But given that a adept chunk of the world is already benefiting from phone - based RFID shopping , there ’s little interrogation that the canonical premiss is a good one . [ Patent ( PDF)andTelegraphandElectricPigviaSlashdot ]
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