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Mar 11, 2025
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and Dive Right In oh of course and it's
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me classic move back to me but this time
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about some apple Hardware that you may
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be interested in so the story future
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airpods could use IR cameras for inair
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gesture control IR cameras in your ears
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what will the Geniuses at Apple think of
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next that's directly from a commercial
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did anyone get that reference maybe not
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let's see here Apple could equip a
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future airpods variant with camera
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modules the earbuds May incorporate an
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IR camera like the one apple uses for
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iPhone's face ID wait a second they
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haven't even put this in the MacBook Pro
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we're going to get this in the airpods I
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don't I don't know I mean but this is
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Ming quo uh this could help the airpods
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pro to better integrate with the Vision
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Pro and improve spatial Computing or the
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spatial Computing
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experience uh in a medium post TF
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International analy M quo says Apple
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will mass-produce airpods with ir camera
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modules in 2026 dude I kind of feel like
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M quo has been getting kind of zany in
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some of his predictions and some of them
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haven't panned out recently and now I
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just feel like he's trying to troll us
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like this almost feels like an April 1
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medium
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post I wonder if he got his months wrong
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and posted this on July 1 instead quo
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says when a user is watching a video
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with the Vision Pro and wearing the new
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airpods if users turn their hair to look
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turn their head to look in a specific
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Direction The Sound Source in that
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direction can be emphasized to enhance
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the spatial audio Computing
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experience uh interestingly division Pro
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already does this so what exactly po
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means when he says this is
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unclear okay cool the airpods could use
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IR the IR camera for inair gesture
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control by detecting changes in the
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environment this would have benefits for
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all products like the iPhone uh that
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don't have any means of track hand
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gestures over the years we had heard R
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rumors that Apple's working on airpods
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with health sensors I think I believe
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that more they could pack a temperature
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sensor to monitor your body temperature
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while quo did not mention it Apple might
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use the IR camera to track temperature
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changes what do you think
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leis is this happening are we getting
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cameras in the ear holes ear cams I mean
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this is the first time we've heard of
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this right I mean it is not the first
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time we've heard of it
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um gesture controls I mean I guess maybe
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that's okay maybe like if you can go
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like this and turn the volume up or down
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maybe that's great I
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mean seems hard to believe they fit a
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little camera in those tiny little uh
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earbuds I mean I wouldn't you rather
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take like an extra hour or two of
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battery
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life yeah I could think of so many
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things I'd rather take than a camera in
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my ear and it's also going to make for
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some awkward FaceTime call experiences
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when you accidentally activate the
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camera inside your ear
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and everyone has to see that uh you
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haven't been using Q-tips as often as
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you should unlike me who uses them at
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least two or three times a week
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leis well I'm glad to hear that uh
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thanks for the sparkling ear update I
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think it's important that people pay
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attention to the ear hygiene you know
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like when you you stand next to someone
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and you all of a sudden you catch a
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glimpse of the inside of their ear and
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you just see all that wax in there and
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you're like H who do you hang out with
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swine
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clean your ears anyway I can't believe
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you use Q-tips and not a cult cloth just
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W it up and swirl it in you know I
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haven't ever thought to try that but
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they're so thick and luxurious I feel
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like that would be hard to actually get
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into your ear hole because might be
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harder to get out what if it just
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latched on it you couldn't get it out
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that was it it just got stuck in there
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which you know we do not recommend so if
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you try that try that at your own risk
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although you would have the cleanest uh
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ear canals
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in your ZIP code I know that much for
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sure yeah I don't know man I think that
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this is a wacky one putting a camera
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they haven't even added a FaceTime
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camera to the MacBook Pro and I remember
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that German was saying one of the
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reasons they haven't done that is
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because they can't fit it into the lid
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of the MacBook Pro and yet they're going
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to fit it into the
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airpods well it's because the MacBook
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Pro lid is so thin it's like a a
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fraction of the the the thickness of you
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know the iPad Pro or the iPhone or any
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of the other devices with face ID like
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the you know the MacBook Pro that is
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like you know what 2 mm thick and the uh
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the face idy thing if you like look at
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iFix it's tear down it's almost the
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entire thickness of the iPhone that that
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it is oh really it takes up the entire
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oh I didn't realize that so yeah how are
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they going to fit something that thick
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into an airpod which is already so small
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and packed full of technology I just
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think that this prediction is
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totally I mean kind of to be honest I
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think the the one that fits in the
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airpod wouldn't have to be as precise as
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the the face ID sensor like the face ID
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sensor has to get like a detailed 3D map
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of your face whereas it sounds like this
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wouldn't need to be as advanced of a
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sensor so it could probably get away
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with making it smaller but it still
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raises the question like what if you
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have long hair you know and it covers up
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your ears then it wouldn't work you know
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like the gesture control on the Vision
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Pro works pretty well but still
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sometimes I I catch myself like holding
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my hand out like behind my head and I'm
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like why won't it tap and it's like oh
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right it has to look at my hand for it
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to work uh you know and that would just
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introduce a lot of variables like
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sticking it in earbuds like you know
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there are the some some people who just
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like put the earbuds in their ears
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upside down you know yeah yeah you ever
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see videos of people doing that like I
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think Rudy Giuliani was
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like airpods are like pointing straight
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up like Shrek you know some people just
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can't be helped I
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guess I love that picture yeah go far
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and this thing's talking about it using
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it to help with the spatial audio which
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you know they already do through with
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you know what head motion sensors right
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I
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mean is that Pro already has that so I I
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don't know what quo means when he when
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he says that in the article well so do
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airpods right I mean airpods Pro have
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those motion sensors so I don't who
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knows who knows very odd very odd rumor
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very seems like a very limited kind of a
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use case for things that you might need
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but yeah there's many other features I
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could think of that I think app would
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probably pursue before this but who
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knows we'll wait and see what happens I
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mean he has a pretty accurate record but
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this is definitely one of the wackier
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ones that I've seen from him and I don't
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really know I mean look I I hate to
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sound like such a pessimist I just don't
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really know why people would want this
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so and to and to have such a specific
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use case that you could do gestures and
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but maybe there's something that apple
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is planning you know 5 years from now
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and this is a feature that they need to
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get to that point so that could it
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