Apple Awarded Patent For Wireless Antennas To Be Built Into Keyboards

Apple have been awarded a patent that will allow them integrate wireless antennas into keyboards.

Future Macbooks may come with 3G and GPS built into keyboards and provide a fully mobile solution to users. The patent was filled in early 2008, approximately a year after Apple created a prototype Macbook Pro with a built in antenna to receive a 3G signal.

The prototype Macbook Pro was listed on eBay but had its listing removed for unknown reasons after it passed the $30,000 auction mark.

The awarding of this patent, along with Appleā€™s previous 3G prototype, suggests possible 3G & GPS support for future releases of Macbooks.

Cormac Moylan

Based in Cork, Ireland, his first foray into the Apple world was way back in 2006 when he purchased an iMac followed by a Macbook around 4 weeks later. He currently owns a Macbook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, iPhone 4, iPod Touch, and Apple TV. But he prefers to buy watches. Go figure!