Apple goes far to make its devices seamless and attractive, but it wants to go further and create controls that are invisible until you need them. Apple already goes to thoroughly unreasonable, ...

Apple is continuing to develop technology that could allow virtually invisible input areas that can display information to a user while replacing physical buttons or controls on its products.

Steve Jobs has been on a quest to rid the world of buttons since the original Macintosh debuted sans numeric keypad. In later years, we've seen the G4 Cube (with its ...