MacBook Pro could run faster, hotter in future with new ventilated chassis
Apple is investigating how to build a MacBook Pro which could lift itself automatically to provide greater ventilation in intensive work when components are running hot.
Apple is investigating how to build a MacBook Pro which could lift itself automatically to provide greater ventilation in intensive work when components are running hot.
Instead of the familiar square Apple Watch design with separate band, Apple has also researched making a single piece from a curved, or wrap-around, display.
Apple is researching having adjustable lenses in "Apple Glass," which detect a user's eyesight and reconfigure themselves to present the clearest vision.
The rumored "iPhone Fold" could use a system of gears to manage how the mobile device flexes, providing increased control and support to a potentially vulnerable component.
Future Apple AR devices, such as "Apple Glass," may include holograms to make moving through virtual environments feel more natural.
Alongside multiple research projects to do with different elements of creating an immersive Apple AR experience, Apple is investigating how to protect "Apple Glass" wearers from colliding into real-world objects, walls, or cars.
Apple is researching how AirPods or AirPods Max can distinguish between different ear cushions, or AirPod tips, and then computationally alter audio properties to suit.
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that its Apple Silicon iPhone and Mac chips infringe on patents owned by non-practicing entity Future Link Systems, LLC.
Apple is looking at expanding the functionality of HomeKit with new modular wall units to replace light switches that can provide granular control of devices and location sensing for items or electronics in a home.
Apple wants to make iPhone and iPad screens better able to recognize touch and gestures even in damp or humid conditions.
Apple AR may not be confined to what you can see through "Apple Glass." It may also give users force feedback through Apple-designed socks.
Apple is researching how to use new sensing methods to detect the early signs of a swelling battery, and how to not just tell the user that it's happening, but how to prevent it.
Alongside all of Apple's work in Apple AR, and "Apple Glass," regarding live experiences, the company wants users to be able to record, edit, and later view AR — together with automatically-generated extras.
Apple is investigating how an "Apple Ring" could interpret the wearer's gestures, or provide extra functionality to other devices such as the Apple Pencil.
The rumored iPhone Fold or iPad that uses a flexible display could use new technology to prevent the display from getting too brittle from cold weather by warming the screen before bending it, by using a combination of heating elements and even the pixels of the display itself.
Future iPhone cameras may contain a flash that automatically adjusts and diffuses its light to better capture objects at different distances from the lens.
Rather than reintroducing the previous Force Touch where a surface detects pressure, Apple is investigating how wearables such as gloves can turn regular surfaces into touch-sensitive ones, perhaps for Apple AR.
Apple is continuing to refine its work on light sensors that could work through a display, likely for use in a future version of Face ID or Touch ID on an iPhone.
Apple is researching how to make the fabric covering of a HomePod, or HomePod mini, also include a way to provide information to the user.
Apple's MagSafe connector that it popularized on the MacBook Pro could make a return in the future, with Apple researching the use of a revised version as a replacement to Lightning as it potentially moves to a "portless" iPhone design.
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