Microsoft patent reveals idea for a modular phone

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While our smartphones can be used for just about anything these days – checking our email, surfing the web, playing games, watching movies, what if one day we had a smartphone that came with interchangeable parts to accomplish those specific tasks? Well Microsoft has recently filed for a patent for what appears to be the Swiss Army knife of smartphones.

Based on the patent drawing above, it depicts a slider smartphone with the area where a keyboard can usually be found being empty. That space which can be used to attach a QWERTY keyboard can also attach a variety of other modules, such as a gaming controller pad, an extra battery pack and even a secondary display. With Microsoft entering the mobile phone market with Windows Phone 7, we don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine that one day we will eventually start seeing devices like these, but for now we can only imagine.

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'Shiver' trilogy author reveals her sketches of Sam and Grace

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'Shiver' trilogy author reveals her sketches of Sam and GraceJuly 13, 2011 |  1:12pm

The conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater's bestselling young-adult werewolf romance came out Tuesday and is already huffing and puffing its way up the bestseller list. Now readers who feel as if they've been waiting, well, forever for the finale to her hugely popular "Shiver" trilogy get a bonus: Stiefvater's own drawings of the main characters.

On the eve of the release of "Forever," Stiefvater teased readers with her pencil drawing of Grace, who, in the last book of the series, finds she's been prowling the forest on all fours. Today, she let fans see the face of Grace's true werewolf love, Sam -- the boy with a heart -- and eyes -- of gold.

As part of her press tour, Stiefvater is traveling the country and also blogging. Yesterday, along with her Grace sketch, Stiefvater offered up a play list of songs supposedly compiled by Grace.

The songs include "Sort Of" by Ingrid Michaelson, "Sister Winter" by Sufjan Stevens and "A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos, among others.

 Stiefvater fans won't have to wait long for more fantastical romance. "The Scorpio Races" is due out October 18.

-- Susan Carpenter

Photo: Maggie Stiefvater's sketches of characters Sam and Grace from her "Shiver" trilogy. Credit: Scholastic. 

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