Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple Please Steal This Tech”.
I just came back from the world’s largest tech show. You may know it as the Consumer Electronics Show CES. I have seen The Cutting Edge Tech of the future tech for rich people, tech for normal people and, in all seriousness, Tech that can actually change our lives. That is coming this year and the one tech company that dominates Our Lives was not at CES Apple, never has a booth at CES. So before I wrap up my reporting on the show, there is one more thing I need to do.
Um. I have some notes here to share with apple Mr cook: it’s okay! If you couldn’t make it to CES. I can tell you all about the new things that you need to add to your products right away, and it shouldn’t be a problem, because apples are really really good at taking other people’s ideas and putting their own twist on them. So Apple here are some ideas. You can totally steal and we all would appreciate it like how about never having to recharge your Apple watch ever again. Now.
What was that company called? I have it somewhere here hold on, don’t count on Battery tech to get any big leaps in Innovation anytime soon your Apple watch battery life is not going to change all that much from one version to the next, but one company at CES is showing us how To think differently about charging the watch with the energy around you, this is a smart watch band called B heart, it’s from a French company called barracoda, and it never needs a power supply. It charges itself with solar, energy and body heat and it powers itself. With your motion, you can see the light sensors on The Wristband as little squares and all that data it collects goes to an app to show insights on your health, your Sleep Quality. It also shows how much energy you’re producing. Now I have heard of some smaller companies working with perpetual motion, smart watches in the watch world.
You would call this a self-winding or automatic watch or the energy is generated by a rotor that moves As you move and it harvests small bursts of energy. But this B heart band is a little different because it collects more than just that. It’S also harvesting light and heat, and it’s all just in the band you can attach any normal clock watch to it. The tech is just the wristband and that one, a CES Innovation award in sustainability, there’s so much untapped energy all around us. So could something like this band be used to keep your Apple watch alive, even in like say, a bare minimum mode, when you don’t have a way to charge it? Turning The Wristband into something that gathers energy could fix the most annoying thing about owning an Apple Watch having to charge it every night or having to worry about it being dead.
If you travel and leave your charger at home, because that happened to me on a family road trip vacation the other week and no little convenience store – seems to carry extra Apple watch Chargers. I had to look at my phone to check the time like a barbarian. The price point on the B heart is perfect. This band starts at one hundred dollars and is coming in April.
Only one hundred dollars for the tech and apple is out here. Selling one hundred dollar fabric for its Apple watch bands, listen Apple. This fits in with your company goals.
You have this whole system, designed with iPhones and apple watches, to communicate with the world in an emergency or, if you’re stranded, but it’s not going to do any good if we’re out of battery right now. What else we got here, let’s see, let’s see, electric speed boats, oh robot helpers, not that kind of robot helper. Ah, yes, party fridges, consumer electronics are personal and we like them to reflect our personal style. We are seeing that concept shifted into high gear with every aspect of Technology, even refrigerators. The LG mood up has panels that you can make glow in any color.
That fits your mood for the moment, and it’s not just LG doing this. When I visited the Samsung booth, I saw custom colors, you can order for its bespoke series fridges, you can even put unique art pieces on the French doors. Now Apple knows a thing or two about color, like that 24 years ago, in the late 90s we had Apple IMAX, rocking translucent, bright colors, and today’s 24 inch screen iMac offers a rainbow of choices. But why is it just the iMac Apple? Let’S bring this custom color idea to the products we actually carry around with us that we want to show off the MacBooks the laptops, if you don’t make a whole laptop a color, then how about bring back a light up Apple logo? Maybe do your own spin on the color changing Tech we see in the LG fridge, give the Apple a pop of color to accessorize with an outfit a pop of color for conversation in the coffee shop.
If a refrigerator can get some Pizzazz, and so should my laptop come on Apple, Don’t Be Afraid we can do this, we can bring color to the MacBook. Sorry, gold doesn’t count as a color. There is a heightened focus on personalization in All Tech. We even saw it in automobiles, BMW, put a digital face on its front grille with e ink. It’S this kind of thing that can increase loyalty with a brand just saying there was so much Buzz over wireless television, and by that I mean a TV that doesn’t have a jumble of cords in the back, not needing furniture. That holds your TV and also holds your many set top and streaming boxes. Lg’S Wireless OLED has one transmitter box sitting 15 feet away to beam all the content to your TV Apple pay attention here is where you could really level up Apple TV boxes just make one giant transmitter box that can beam to multiple televisions in the home, treat It like the idea of AirPlay, but by having a signal, go to different screens and it would solve so many pain points. There’S the obvious fix of not needing a big cabinet to hold everything you could put the furniture wherever you want and you don’t have to have multiple HDMI connectors in the back.
But what if I just needed my Apple TV connected to one cable box and that could beam to any room in the house, saving me from having to pay from multiple cable boxes. If I want live TV – or maybe you beam the same – show to multiple TVs in the house, almost like a party mode, there is something here where you can get people excited about investing in Apple TV, because today’s TVs they can already pull up Netflix or streaming Apps, I see no need to buy an Apple TV right now in my life, but something like this could make things easier in our homes as a hub, because our lives are getting more corded and cluttered. Now this is going to be a big year for Apple to launch into VR and AR with some sort of headset, and we are all hungry for something different and there was a lot of different at CES. So much very different.
It’S really cool to see. Headsets get smaller, HTC Vive XR Elite was showing off it’s less than half the weight of the metaquest pro and it has dials to adjust to some basic prescriptions, so you don’t need to wear glasses underneath the whole thing also fits into a carrying tube. Now I can’t say what I want Apple to steal here, because well I don’t know what apple is doing with its rumored headset, but maybe Apple will have a way for us to have fun in new ways. Make things lighter make us have legs in the metaverse shift? All is a company that puts straps on your legs and torso, so you can do anything in the metaverse.
The controllers strap on and flip back in your hand, so you can grab a drink in the real world without dropping your controls and um there’s also this mouth muting mic. Can you hear me, can you hear me uh yeah? I think we’re good on this one. Don’T need to steal that, no matter what Apple’s gon na need to show us how it has a new Twist on, what’s already out there, to make it easy to dive into VR and to give people interested, because not everyone is as interested as this guy CES Is always special because it’s this? What if dream about the future presented with a little bit of magic and a little bit of tape? That’S holding the prototypes together. Imagination really comes into play here. This year’s show felt, like the tech I saw, was focused on the real world on things being useful and helpful for the Earth for accessibility for health care, and I hope we get to see that reflected in all aspects of new products this year, but just not Folding screens, okay, please Samsung had folding screens, I just want to say apple, don’t go stealing any of that stuff. I mean it looks cool, I guess, but please I need some stability in my life this year and the more things that move the more they break. Yeah, but maybe you do want that drop your thoughts in the comments. How would you work in future Tech into today’s Apple products? In the meantime, I’m gon na go book a spa day or something to recover from CES.
Maybe get me one of those face: massage machines, just roll it around the eyes feel rejuvenated 2023 yeah .