If Apple research pans out, the display of a future Apple Watch, iPhone, or any other product with a screen, may be able to contain a camera and camera flash
If Apple research pans out, the display of a future Apple Watch, iPhone, or any other product with a screen, may be able to contain a camera and camera flash which are externally visible only when needed.

Future Apple Watches may contain cameras that are hidden until needed
Future Apple Watches may contain cameras that are hidden until needed

The sole thing that stops the Apple Watch a wrist-worn video communicator popularized by a great deal of entertainment, is that it lacks a camera. Apple has been working on this, though, and has now been granted a newly revised patent that in part describes embedding a camera and flash within a display.

"Electronic devices with two-stage displays," is concerned with producing a screen that has layers of different display technologies. It's ostensibly for any conceivable device with a screen — and Apple lists the broadest possible range of those — but much of the patent describes the Apple Watch.


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