A few years ago I vaguely remembered reading about an Apple patent.  Nothing out of the ordinary with their patents, just another way of doing something, that they may, or may not do.

Apple is expected to announce a Tablet on January 28th or so.  What I’m more interested to see is if they’ll release a real gamebreaker — this docking station for a tablet.  I think it’s fair to accept the first Apple tablet will be like the first iPhone.  Groundbreaking, and having it’s limits as well that the second and third versions of the tablet will hopefully address.

But, I’m all about the docking station.  For the life of me I’ve never been able to understand why a $3000 Apple laptop doesn’t have a docking station.  I come from the Compaq/HP commercial notebook background where a docking station was a way of life and a great way to save wear and tear on the ports of your laptop.    With the increased mobility that people have with their laptops, having to use a third party product like BookEndz, while very capable would be nothing compared to using a real docking station with one docking port.

Onto this tablet.  Take a look at what could be the perfect tablet docking station.  Slide the tablet into the iMac Display….

This could be the Apple docking station for their tablet.

Check out the article and drill into the patent application from there!