AppleInsider is reporting that Apple filed a patent application back in June 2008 for a universal charging dock. The site even has a picture of the unit, which it says uses a malleable substance that would somehow fit around whatever device was inserted into it. Kind of like some sort of superhero foam, or jello! Or maybe not. As the illustration shows, the dock has a magic reset button on the front to change the shape of the material back to how it was before so that it could accommodate the next device.

Anyway, just imagine only having to bother about one charger for all your different generations of Apple devices: no more pesky dock adaptors and suchlike. And that magic spongy foam stuff can probably be used to fight crime too, it sounds like it has a life of its own. According to AppleInsider, the dock was called the “Aesthetically pleasing universal dock” in the patent application. So very Apple.

{Source:AppleInsider.com}