Tired of walking into things as you read your text messages? Apple will soon have a fix for that. The company has applied for a patent that will warn of oncoming dangers to users distracted by their text messages.

The patent describes a user interface that displays transparent text messages over a live video feed from the device's forward-facing camera.



Apple's Stephen Payne wrote in the application: "The background within the text messaging session can continuously be a live and current video image of the view seen by the camera at any given moment. Consequently, the device's user is less likely to collide with or stumble over an object while participating in a text messaging session."

For some, the future can't arrive soon enough.