Apple patents a Maxiumus-alike keyboard, iMac MacBook dock

engadget.com — Apple's always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can't really imagine Apple has this pair of "products" prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it's still fun to look. Jan 3, 2008 View in Crawl 4