If you want to see all the new types of finger gestures that will be coming to the iPad and iPhone generation, look no farther than Apple’s latest Multitouch Patent. They have now basically patented all major keyboard and edit functions as multitouch finger gestures.  Though it gets me excited to see that soon the iPad may really be used to enter stardate logs, it pains me to see how expansive the scope of the patent is.

Some of the gestures are really basic (i.e. pan, page-up and down, scroll) and are a bit over-reaching in my opinion for a patent.  Seriously, how else would you scroll a webpage on a touch device other than touching with a few fingers and moving them down and up?