Apple wants you to be able to just point at things to learn about them

Future Apple Watch or iPhone models could detect when you're pointing at a location, or want to buy something from a store window, and show you details about them.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 3

Future HomeKit could track you through your house and predict your needs

A future version of HomeKit may keep track of where the people in the house are, and learn user habits to figure out when to automatically take actions, without you having to ask Siri.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 19

Future iPads and iPhones could tell stressed users to calm down

Apple is researching how to bring its Apple Vision Pro physiognomy sensor technology to give iPads and iPhones the ability to detect stress in a user.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 8

Apple wants iPhone-like touch surfaces to be able to wrap around spheres

A flat touch surface isn't enough — thirty years after it retired the trackball in favor of touch-sensitive trackpads on PowerBooks, Apple could be planning to combine the two ideas into a new input device for the MacBook Pro.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 2

MacBook Pro Touch Bar could be revived as a strip that supports Apple Pencil

Apple keeps researching how to have the iPad-centric Apple Pencil do the work of the old Touch Bar on the surface of a future MacBook Pro.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 18

Apple researching how to make a 'Star Trek' communicator badge

Apple has been researching how to make a small, wearable loudspeaker that would use beamformed audio to make it clearly audible to the wearer, yet not disturb anyone else.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 28

Apple's next HomePod could be a desktop or TV sound bar

While most HomePod rumors have claimed that Apple will add a screen to a future model, new research shows the company is thinking about making it a horizontal sound bar.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 9

Future Apple Vision Pro could help the user get life-saving medical advice

Apple is developing technology for wearable devices like Apple Vision Pro that measure and monitor biometric data and location to provide tailored and potentially lifesaving advice.

David Schloss 2 years ago 0

Apple wants to make grooved keys to stop nasty finger oil transfer to MacBook Pro screens

Apple is researching a novel way to keep MacBook Pro displays clean — by changing the structure of keys on the keyboard.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 25

Apple is researching how to make the ultimate MagSafe wallet and iPhone carrying case

Apple has been granted a patent for a new accessory that would hold a user's credit cards, charge their iPhone, and be worn on the wrist or around the neck.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 8

Future Apple Pencil may work on iPhone and never need charging

Apple is looking at technology to entirely remove the need to charge a future Apple Pencil without removing features, and whether that will help it be used on an iPhone.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 1

Future Apple devices may precisely track your gestures using radar

You may soon be able to wave your hands or draw with a stylus in mid-air with these gestures then controlling everything from your Mac to an office whiteboard, thanks to radar.

David Schloss 2 years ago 6

Future Apple Watch bands could automatically launch apps or change face

Not content with its plan to make Apple Watch bands whose color can be changed, Apple wants those bands to change what the Watch displays — and to prove that they are "authorized."

William Gallagher 2 years ago 1

Apple, Google fail in legal challenge against patent review rule

Apple, Google, and a number of other tech companies have failed to convince a court that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rule denying some inter partes reviews of patents is illegal.

Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 1

Future Apple Vision Pro may get Bob Ross-style virtual painting tools

If you've ever wanted to unleash your inner Bob Ross, you may be soon able to make your own happy accidents in Apple Vision Pro.

David Schloss 2 years ago 8

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