As you already know, Apple uses the term “wearables” to define Apple Watch and AirPods. But now the Cupertino company may want to expand the terminology to other articles, such as key rings, bracelets and necklaces. After all, the company has been rumored to be working on smart rings for a long time. But now a patent has uncovered a number of interesting details about other wearables.
Apple: new wearables are coming
“Electronic devices can be worn on a user’s body or they can be attached to an object. For example, an electronic device may have a ring, strap or rope-like shape that can be wrapped, tied, hung or otherwise attached to a person, animal or object. ” So we read in Apple’s patent, which makes us speculate that the company is working on new smart wearable devices, thus expanding its commercial proposal.
“Electronic devices can be worn on a user’s wrist or neck …[e] they can be used to collect information on the person or object to which the electronic device is connected “. And more specifically, “location information, activity information, identification information, medical or biometric information”. And the same device “can be used to provide a user with output (tactile output, audio output and / or visual output“.
In addition, Apple would be thinking of wearables with the ability to “store identifying information about the person or object” or “store messages for a user”. And that it can be used “as an anchor or a visual indicator in an augmented reality or virtual reality system“. Basically, a small device. Accurately described by Apple in a 15,000 word patent. A wearable that will not only have a limited function, but that will be inserted within a much larger AR system.