The different professions of an iPad

Apple is renowned for its innovative and intuitive designing. Their latest devices, the iPads have opened up a whole new world of capabilities and possibilities. Engineers, the world over, are capitalizing on the efficient and elegant features of the iPad to come up with interesting and useful patents for inventions. Some of them have already come up with successful working prototypes. Thus, the iPad now seems to have many different 'career options' in the field of robotics. Here are three such careers that an iPad could choose to pursue.

iPad robots

1. An iPad pilot

In what could be considered as a bizarre 'career choice' for an iPad, we have engineers who have designed it to function as a remote pilot for pilotless drones! Martin Lefebure has done this for the company Parrot from France. Specialized for the rotary wing drones, the iPad can now control its flight via a specially fit camera in front of the drone. So now, just with gentle taps on the iPad, the flight of the drone can be perfectly controlled without the flight bumping into obstacles in the way.

This technology can easily be extended to other remote controlled toys too. Radio controlled land and air toys which are to be used in a controlled environment can also get connected with the iPad very soon. The parent company, Parrot, works with Google android too and so it might not be long before we get the same application there.

The same designer has made drones function along with the iPhone 4 too. The good news is that though the company has filed patents for this technology, it has moved much ahead of the patent stage. The first prototypes are already out in the market and are being tested for necessary refinements. Who knows what will be next? Maybe a drone that can launch toothpicks as missiles on unwary passers by? There is no end to the imagination.

2. An iPad doctor

Inspired maybe from iRobot or Wall-E, we have a company called VGo that has arrived with a robot that functions as follows. A controller makes the robot move and get activated. The controller system is connected to a cloud computing service which commands it. This cloud computing service is connected to a remote computing device.

What this translated to was a published patent application to utilize Apple's iPad and iOS in robots being made by the company called iRobot. The iRobot that is manufactured will serve as an amazing tool for tele-medicine. As a physician works and treats a patient, he/she could be guided via the robot by an expert who is physically very far away. The interface allows for the physical physician to be completely eliminated too and a few taps on the iPad could put one in touch with the best of physicians to attend on you remotely. And if the physician wants to make notes, all that has to be done is to remove the iPad from the robot. Even the X-Rays and other material can be easily accessed.

Huge players like the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and the Mount Sinai work intensively and extensively out of the iPad and therefore the iRobot developers chose to work along with the iPad and Apple iOS. This revolution has started with the medical field. Since these robots offer a great interactive experience, there are innumerable ways to use the same technology, be it in business applications or retailing.

3. An iPad guitarist

Brian Crouch and Ulrich Behringer are well-known independent engineers who have arrived with the working model of the touchscreen guitar. There are many applications and devices that produce sounds like a synthetic guitar. But none of them presently offer the feel and experience of a real guitar. That is about to change now.

This synthetic guitar has a body and a neck like any other normal guitar. The neck has a built-in touch sensor to indicate the position of fingers. The body has an attached computer tablet with a touch screen, an iPad in this case. This fits in neatly into a receptacle that is present on the body. The processor in the tablet receives the input from the finger positions and translates it into an output. The built-in software could ensure that the same synthetic guitar could also function as a synthesizer when necessary.

This guitar thus, provides a giant leap over the existing musical video games and other gaming peripherals. With the closure of the GuitarHero, this invention comes in time to fill the existing void.

Via: PatentlyApple