{"id":1027,"date":"2008-01-03T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2008-01-03T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T23:46:37","slug":"open_the_pod_ba_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Open the pod bay door, iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/wheres_my_cloud.php\">Cloudbook<\/a> dock?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iMacDock_300.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/images\/iMacDock_300.jpg?resize=300%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\/blogs\/?p=480\">MacNN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2008\/01\/03\/apple-creating-imac-like-docking-station\/\">Mac Rumors<\/a>, this drawing appears in an <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;co1=AND&#038;d=PG01&#038;s1=20080002350&#038;OS=20080002350&#038;RS=20080002350\">Apple patent application<\/a>, published today by the patent office, for an &#8220;integrated monitor and docking station.&#8221; (It looks like Jobs may have done the drawing himself.) Essentially, it&#8217;s an iMac-like shell with a monitor into which you slide a small portable computer. As the patent describes it, &#8220;The docking station includes a display and a housing configured to hold the display in a manner that exposes a viewing surface of the display to view. The housing defines a docking area configured to receive a portable computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What better place to keep your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google_apple_an.php\">Apple-Google cloud computer<\/a> when you&#8217;re at home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the Cloudbook dock? As reported by MacNN and Mac Rumors, this drawing appears in an Apple patent application, published today by the patent office, for an &#8220;integrated monitor and docking station.&#8221; (It looks like Jobs may have done the drawing himself.) Essentially, it&#8217;s an iMac-like shell with a monitor into which you slide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}