Apple Patents 'Transparent Texting'; May Reduce Distracted Walking Injuries

If you live in a big city, or even a small one for that matter, you’ve undoubtedly seen it happen. A person texting on their cell phone trips and falls into a fountain or runs head on into a pole. You may laugh, indulging your sense of schadenfreude, but the people at Apple saw this as an opportunity. Instead of asking customers to change their habits, Apple patented a technology for "transparent texting," which puts a text box over a live video screen, enabling iPhone users to see where they’re going and text at the same time.