Apple's patent could bring glowing trackpads

Apple's patent could bring glowing trackpads
Apple filed for a patent that could bring glowing trackpads to its notebook computers. What's the benefit of a glowing track-pad, you ask?

Electronics makers break out 'green' initiatives (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - The Dell Latitude D630 laptop contains mercury, a heavy metal that can damage the human nervous system. Not one of its many parts is made of recycled, post-consumer plastics or plant-based plastics. It's packaged in a box made of largely unrecycled materials. Yet it may be the most environmentally friendly mainstream laptop on the planet.

Vaja i-volution
Vaja makes fashionable hand-made high quality leather cases for electronic gadgets ranging from cellphones, iPods to notebook computers.

Intel, `$100 laptop' project make peace (AP)
AP - As Nicholas Negroponte stormed the developing world trying to drum up buyers for the innovative $175 computers designed by his One Laptop Per Child education nonprofit, he encountered a persistent obstacle: competition from Intel Corp.