Apple : Is it game on for Apple as it patents gaming-centric iPad with rear sensors? |
| Is it game on for Apple as it patents gaming-centric iPad with rear sensors? Posted:  Apple appears to be exploring ways to boost the functionality and versatility of its best-selling iPad tablet range, judging by a patent recently awarded to the firm. PatentlyApple reports the company has successfully patented a tablet with sensors around the rear perimeter that, according to the 2012 filing, could be used as an input method for video games. The beneath-the-surface sensors could be ultrasonic, capacitive or pressure-based and could be accessed via a natural grip in portrait or landscape mode, the filing appears to show. Essentially, this means the sensors could open up the iPad to a gaming experience more closer associated with console play, tailored to those who abhor constant tapping and swiping on a touchscreen. PS Vita like?The sensors could also be used in the same way as the rear touch pad on the PS Vita handheld console. Within games like FIFA soccer, players gamers can shoot more accurately by tapping areas of the pad. Interestingly, the patent application combines another innovation, which shows a virtual keyboard on the display of an iMac or MacBook, including a visual representation of the position of the users hands This could be aimed as allowing users to see what they're typing without looking down at the keyboard. Both parents where applied for separately but have been awarded together. However, it seems a stretch to imagine these innovation will be featured within of the rumoured forthcoming iPad and Mac updates |
| Apple TV gets an iOS 7 and OS X Yosemite-style makeover in new beta Posted:  Apple isn't just modifying the look and feel of its mobile and desktop operating systems this autumn; the Apple TV software is getting a face lift too. Alongside the launch of the new beta versions for iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite today comes a new version of the Apple TV software, available to developers and members of Apple's beta program. This version (picture taken by Twitter user Danny Perez) brings a more refined homescreen design with flatter application icons, akin to the ones launched in iOS 7 last year and coming to OS X later this year. There's also thinner text with the Helvetica Neue font, akin to the streamlined design approach deployed by Apple in the last 12 months. Bug fixesThere seems to be little else on show within this latest Apple TV beta, which is the fourth in the current cycle, while previous releases saw the arrival of Family Sharing and iCloud Photo support. The new version of the software should go public this autumn alongside iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite. The fifth betas for Yosemite and iOS 8 also landed today, bringing bug fixes for a multitude of issues. |
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