Apple Next-Gen "None-Touch" iPod Interface?

[motz]

It appears that apple have cleverly planned to redesign the next-gen IPOD, currently the best selling music player in the us. A new patent passed says the following:

A method for initiating floating controls on an electronic device, the method comprising: detecting the presence of an object above and spaced away from a surface of the electronic device; and displaying a particular graphical user interface element on a display of the electronic device when the object is detected above the surface of the electronic device.

An mock-up of the new interface is attached in the comments.

[N1ghtshade]

Thats freaking cool


I might actually buy an ipod if it did that. Then again companys patent things to use as toliet paper so...

[NiGame]

Hmm intresting Would be cool if it happened