SLIDESHOW: Apple's Groundbreaking Patent, Ballmer's Retirement And More From The Fourth Week Of August

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) has taken an interest in developing a system to control virtual objects. After Apple filed a patent for what could be the company's answer to Kinect (the Microsoft-developed (NASDAQ: MSFT ) motion-based control system for Xbox), investors began to wonder what Apple might do next. As