This is from an application called Caoo, a new application by Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy:
It helps musicians to learn to play music by Ear and I must say its one of the nicest looking single window interfaces I have seen for a while.
Very short but interesting little article about the work Apple is doing with its user interfaces and the what the recent patent could mean to users in the near future.
Of course a lot of people are interested in the multi-touch tablet and much twitter has been going on about it, but there are some other gems in their if you haven’t stayed up to date with what Apple has been filing.
The Mac at 25: Interface design | Macworld
Other links that could be interesting are:
http://www.maclife.com/patents, though it does feature some not so great artists visualisations.