It’s Apple’s patents and forthcoming technologies that make things interesting and a recently released patent application entitled “Camera as Input Interface” has revealed something cool. Per AppleInsider, the document describes finger swipes over the iPhone’s camera could at some point allow in-call control of functions such as fast forwarding or rewinding a voicemail. In addition […]
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A suburban Philadelphia school district has denied it spied on students by remotely activating the cameras on their school-issued MacBook notebooks. Per Macworld UK, in a statement released late on Thursday, Christopher McGinley, the superintendent of Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa., admitted that the MacBooks’ cameras could be turned on without the user’s […]
iPhone OS 3.2 is currently in development and may in fact sport some really cool new features. Per Engadget, a series of “extremely trusted sources” have stated that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling. Engadget’s sources said there are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (a […]
Late Wednesday, Apple posted its Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.7, an update designed to extend RAW image compatibility for the Aperture 2, iPhoto ’08 and iPhoto ’09 applications. The update adds support for the following cameras: – Canon EOS-1D Mark IV – Canon EOS 7D – Canon PowerShot G11 – Nikon D3S – Nikon […]
A long-rumored camera-equipped iPod touch may see the light of day next spring per a source close to the story. A contact insists the device is back on track and that it would unusually launch outside of Apple’s typical upgrade cycle, releasing in spring 2010. To make that goal, however, Apple would use the same […]