On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 60 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. In this particular report we briefly cover two patents. The first relates to Apple s future autonomous vehicle and the second relates to an ultrasonic water-agnostic touch detection sensor.
No, it s not an April Fool s Joke: Apple has actually Invented a Blow Event mode that triggers a particular control mode on an iDevice
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a new mode of operating an iDevice which Apple calls a blow event. I keep expecting Apple to call me at any moment now to say April Fools! Until that happens, I have to take this invention as seriously as I possibly can.
Apple presents one scenario wherein a user happens to have shopping bags in both hands when a call comes in. Instead of putting the bags down, Apple s invention will allow a user to simply blow on an Apple Watch interface enabling you to take the call. That s what Apple is illustrating in patent FIG. 8B below.