Robert Scoble recently made waves when he announced he had confirmed Apple’s next iPhone would be a “clear piece of glass” with a “compute strip at the bottom.” The futuristic-sounding phone met with a general skepticism in the tech world, but the idea is a plausible one and can’t be ruled out with any certainty. Scoble claims to have multiple sources confirming this story, as he detailed in a recent Medium post. Adding additional credibility to the scoop, one of Scoble’s fans recently uncovered an Apple patent from 2014 that describes similar technology: A handheld computing device that includes an…

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