I’m interested in this report in AppleInsider of a new patent application from Apple which describes a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys.

My big question about the mooted Tablet is whether it will be suitable for touch typing. I’ve been wondering how they will implement the keyboard.

From that AppleInsider article I can see that maybe when you go to type on the Tablet the keys will become tactile. However all the imagined pictures of the Tablet I’ve seen show it to be like a large iPod Touch on which the screen takes up the whole device on one side, so if they are accurate, I wonder if the tactile keyboard will be built into that screen?