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But first, Apple has devised a pocket-sized companion that, hypothetically, does it all.

Music, videos, and books, sands the nagging smartphone or clumsy smart watch.

In a patent application published recently by the US Patent Office,

Apple sketched out such a device,

a headphone case meets pocket computer

with a touch screen display and the prerequisite guts for flicking through songs, watching movies, peeping the weather or even navigating somewhere via a mapping app.

Put another way, time is a flat circle and Apple invented the iPod all over again.

Judging by the filing, Apple sought to patent something reminiscent of a teensy iPod touch or iPod

Nanow, but with a nook for charging a pair of wireless earbuds.

This is only a patent application, which means there is currently no indication a supercharged

Airpods case like this will exist beyond some doodles.

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