Apple wants to turn your iPhone, iPad into a MacBook!

Apple has now filled for an unusual patent. The technology giant filed the patent last September and reveals designs for a new gadget that could turn an iPhone into a MacBook hybrid.

The electronic accessory device is considered a "thin" device that extends the functionality of another device but is inoperable by itself as a stand-alone device. It is said to contain traditional laptop hardware like a large display, physical keyboard, GPU, ports and more, but is incapable of functioning without a host. In this case, an iPhone or iPad would slot into the laptop-esque piece of kit to fill the role of CPU, explains Apple Insider.

The patent offers two different illustrations for how this would work. For phones, there would be a slot on the accessory device instead of a trackpad. On the other hand, the tablets would dock right into the space where a laptop's screen would normally be.

The patent filing stated “The embodiments described herein relate generally to portable computing devices. More particularly, the present embodiments relate to an accessory device that can extend functionality of a portable computing device.” The device will be most likely made out of Aluminum. At the moment, no company has managed to merge a smartphone and laptop.

Just like other patents by the company, this might just be an idea and may never make it to a commercial product.