Staying ahead of its competitions with the latest design and technologies, the tech giant Apple is working on a wearable smart ring, which can be worn around your finger and have the potential to control your iPhone.
Apple Could Soon Launch a ‘Smart Ring’
According to a report, the company has patented multiple iterations on the concept of smart ring wearable technology. Titled “Devices, methods, and user interfaces for a wearable electronic ring computing device”, the patent was granted to Apple on October 15. Rather than just act as an input peripheral for another device, like a wearable wireless mouse, Apple’s proposal offers what could be best described as a miniaturized Apple Watch in ring form.
As the patent clarifies the company will introduce a wearable smart ring like the smartwatch so as to control your iPhone. The patent talks about a ring with a touchscreen including a processor, a rechargeable source of power and a wireless transceiver. Apart from this, one will be able to use just a finger, a finger tap, voice command or hand gesture to control any device like an iPhone or an iPad.
Apple ‘Smart Ring’ Specification Features
Additionally, Apple’s new device will use a biometric sensor. This wireless system will help in “waking up” a device. There would also be other sensors included within the ring to enable hand gestures to be detected and interpreted, along with a dial control perpendicular to the ring’s circumference that could function like the Apple Watch’s Digital Crown.
The ring could also include multiple haptic actuators for providing force feedback and “conveying directional information” to the user, motion sensitivity for “sensing a writing motion, biometric sensors for fitness tracking and security, and NFC communications. The wireless connectivity could also extend to transmitting identification information about the user to a secondary device, allowing it to unlock a Mac-like an Apple Watch can be configured to do.
Among the gestures, Apple defines include pointing at a separate device using the ring-wearing finger to prompt a wireless link, a swiping or flicking gesture to change selections in a menu, rotating the finger or device, and the jolt of a user touching or tapping a surface.
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Reportedly, the company had been working on the patent for the last three years. The patent was originally filed in 2015 and it is unclear if this will become a commercial Apple product. Patently Apple revealed, “Like Amazon’s Echo Loop, Apple’s smart ring will be able to use Siri; be used for biometric authentication; can be used to control a computer, TV, TV box and used as a wearable mouse with a touchpad. It could be used to control home lighting or control some aspects of a vehicle.”
