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Ask any motorsport enthusiast and they'll tell you that there's just
something about the way a carbon fiber weave ripples in the sunlight
that makes them want to cover every surface of their vehicles with the
stuff. It looks like Apple engineer Kevin M. Kenney shares a similar
passion, applying for a patent called simply "Reinforced Device
Housing" that describes a way for various weaves to be backed by
carbon "spine" to provide greater torsional rigidity -- to keep you
from twisting it and cracking an LCD. It's hard to deny the images
attached to the application look an awful lot like an iPad, but the
patent text is rather more broad:
Embodiments may house any number of electronic components. For
example, certain embodiments may be used to form the exterior surface
of a mobile telephone, a laptop or notebook computer, a tablet
computing device, a desktop computer, a television, a stereo receiver,
or practically any other electronic device.
Even sporks and shipping containers are mentioned! We've certainly
seen the stuff in some pretty interesting places in the past, and now
can't wait to see where it shows up next.
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