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Apple Watch may not be able to detect users’ wrists through certain tattoos

Your snazzy new Apple Watch may not be able to detect your wrist if there’s a tattoo in the way. A Reddit user posted on Monday that his Apple Watch didn’t receive notifications and would lock when placed on his tattooed wrist. Before trying to contact Apple, though, he tested the Watch against his unmarked […]

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Hardware iPhone News Patents

Apple looking to replace IR sensors with sonar technology in next-gen devices

Look at it this way: sonar’s been around for a while. And it’s always been nifty. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an Apple patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday describes a system that may one day replace the infrared proximity sensors deployed in current iPhones with […]

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Hardware iPad News

Additional third-generation iPad thermal testing continues with some reports indicating temperatures as high as 97 degrees Fahrenheit

There’s a plus side to the iPad 3: you’ll always be able to reheat your favorite foods with it. Per AppleInsider, a new analysis has found the A5X chip in the new device runs as much as 16 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the A5 chip in the iPad 2. According to a series of tests […]

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Software

Elgato releases EyeTV 3.4 update

Late Monday, Elgato Systems released version 3.4 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file. The new version, a 104.9 megabyte update which can be found here via VersionTracker (and can also be found through […]

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iPod

Japanese Developing Headphones Which Could Allow iPod to be Controlled by Facial Movements

iPod users may soon be able to adjust the volume of a song or flip between tracks via a motion of their head according to Macworld UK. Per the article, Japanese researchers have developed a pair of headphones that use infrared sensors to interpret facial movements as a way of controlling a digital audio player. […]