Your Apple Pencil could one day provide vibrational feedback as you draw. A recently published Apple patent shows how a next-gen Apple Pencil could use haptic feedback, with the use of magnetic fields physically affecting the stylus while it is actively being used to draw on an iPad or iPad Pro, using the force to […]
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This could potentially turn into something extremely cool and useful. An Apple patent application on Thursday suggests a method of portable device weatherproofing that buries sensitive electrical device contacts beneath a layer of self-healing elastomer, allowing connectors to penetrate without leaving lasting aesthetic or structural damage. The patent, entitled “Electronic device with hidden connector” details […]
The extremely cool cats at iFixit tore into Apple’s new Smart Keyboard recently and found some interesting stuff inside. The teardown, which was published today, reports that Apple used a conductive fabric as well as a key design borrowed from the 12-inch Retina MacBook. The device uses multiple layers of fabric and plastic to keep […]
There’s got to be a nugget of truth in there somewhere. Per the sometimes-reliable cats at DigiTimes, the next-gen iPhone may adopt “in-cell touch panels,” integrating the display and touch layers of the device’s screen into one component, according to DigiTimes’s Taiwan-based supply chain sources late Thursday night. The sources claim that display companies Sharp […]