Future Apple Watch may anticipate workouts when you change bands

Just swapping to another band may be enough to make a future Apple Watch reconfigure settings, start workouts, and track your strap usage.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 4

Future iMac may be able to extend desktop onto nearby walls

Apple continues to explore ways of extending or improving the iMac, this time by working on integrated technology to extend the user's screen by projecting displays onto nearby surfaces such as walls.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 14

Apple Car's dashboard may look different to driver & passenger

Car dashboard space is limited, and Apple is researching ways to allow that one screen to show different information, depending on what angle it is viewed.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 5

Apple wants to track every user movement for health, AR, and more

Apple wants to know every time you move a muscle in any part of your body, so it can more accurately build a picture of your fitness, and also possibly map your location in a room better.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 3

Apple researching how to make an iPad enclosure out of glass

A future iPad could be made with an enclosure entirely formed from glass, giving Apple's tablet a striking new appearance.

Malcolm Owen 3 years ago 9

Future Apple Watch could get cameras for photography & Face ID

Apple has big plans for cameras in future Apple Watches, if they can be fitted without making the watch awkward to wear — and if the cameras can be of high enough quality.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 4

Folding iPhone could automatically protect itself from drops

Apple is working on technology to allow iPhones or iPads with flexible screens to detect when dropped, and immediately fold up on the way to the ground to minimize damage.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 10

Apple wants you to wave at your devices to shut them all up

In the future, you may be able to salute your HomePod to turn up the volume, make a sweeping gesture to close your smart curtains with HomeKit, or just hold up your hand to pause everything.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 6

How Apple wants to integrate its AR headset with iPhone & Mac

Apple's forthcoming headset was always going to work alongside iPhone and Mac, but a newly-filed patent application describes just what the company wants to happen.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 2

Future Apple 'Body ID' could increase health awareness, offer diet advice

Apple is looking beyond Touch ID and Face ID to a future system where a user's entire body can be scanned to confirm identity and perform health analysis.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 5

Future Siri could talk to whoever is calling you, and take notes

Apple wants Siri to work the phones for you, make and receive calls, arrange appointments, or just play back different voicemail messages to your partner and your boss.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 13

A future HomePod could bend and wrap around a surface

Apple is researching ways to make speakers that include hinges, can bend around corners, cram give big sound into small enclosures that are currently difficult to manage.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 5

Future Apple Watch band could change color based on what you wear

Apple is researching how a single Apple Watch band could be made to change color by itself, both to color-coordinate with a wearer's clothes, and to alert the user to information.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 11

Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel

Despite Apple Silicon currently working solely with its own on-board GPU cores, Apple is researching how to support more options, like PCI-E GPUs, all working in tandem.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 35

Future Apple Watch could have more uses both on and off wrist

Apple is considering how to redesign the Apple Watch and band, so that the watch can quickly be snapped on and off, letting owners take it off their wrists to use as a small, handheld device.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 2

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