Apple has filed another patent for a screen capable of dynamically representing virtual buttons as physical buttons. With resent reports of Steve Jobs not only being happy with the much rumored Apple Tablet, but that we’d be surprised to find out how we interact with it, this doesn’t seem so far fetched. The problem with multitouch screens, like those of the iPhone, is that the user can only perceive the buttons displayed on the screen as images.

Word—according to Sierra Sun—has it that Apple shot footage for an advertisement on Tuesday afternoon at Jax on the Tracks in Truckee, CA. This is a rare act on Apple’s part, considering most of their ads are shot in studio. “Apple found us, they’re trying to show us as a hip and cool spot for the 20-something crowd,” said Bud Haley, owner of Jax on the Tracks.

We dreamed of seeing a touch-screen Apple netbook at this year’s WWDC, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Now, seven weeks after the event, rumors have surfaced once again of a plausible touch-screen device from Apple HQ, this time with a little more information. If The China Times is to be believed, Apple have plans for a 9.7-inch touch-screen netbook device that will cost around $800.

With the 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference less than a week away, there’s plenty of speculation of what new products Apple will announce (especially after the dud that was MacWorld Expo). Here’s a roundup of the latest speculation (Snow Leopard, iPhone, Mac Netbook, Mac Tablet, Stevenote) along with the liklihood of it happening.

It seems as if almost every time there is an Apple announcement coming up, more rumors of a Mac tablet show up. This time around, TechCrunch is reporting that they have heard from OEMs and people who have held prototypes that a 10 inch Mac Tablet and/or large iPhone is on the way. According to them, the price point for this product will be anywhere from $500 to $1,000 and “the project is very real.”

I recently wrote an article on Apple’s seeming lack of real innovation in the Mac market. After some consideration, I realized that all of their product lines have been rather stagnant lately: iPhone 3G was a small departure from iPhone design-wise, Macs took on a gray and black finish, and Snow Leopard is supposedly not introducing many new features. This leads me to believe Apple is preparing a new generation of computing.

Here’s a lesson for you. Want to know how to make your press release/Expo booth stand out from everyone else’s? Get Steve Wozniak to appear. Trust us, it works. Of course, it’s not an easy thing to do if he’s not on your board of advisors, as with Axiotron.

So Steve will be appearing with Axiotron at Macworld Expo, albeit briefly…

Now that the much anticipated Apple Let’s Rock event is only two days off, let’s talk Let’s Rock rumors. There are lots of possible goodies for the event, so let’s hope that Apple is up for the challenge and fulfills everyone’s hopes.

Read on for the full list of possibilities.

According to Jason D. O’Grady of ZDNet, Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch Mac tablet this fall – most likely in September or October. It will run the full Mac OS X that current Macs use and have a slot-loading SuperDrive that the MacBooks and MacBook Pros have. Apparently, it will use an “iPhone-type” more »

Fueled by the recent snowballing of Mac sales and interest in the iPhone’s mobile WiFi platform, this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) has sold out for the first time in history. The exact number of spaces that were available was not put out by Apple, but soon after making the “sold out” announcement, more »