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Apple Patents Wearable, Fabric Strap that Acts As Display

  • GeekSnack, Monday, December 7, 2015 12:08 PM

In a patent Apple filed and the Patent and Trademark Office published this week, we get a glimpse of yet another new product that could be launched under Tim Cook’s command. While the first such device was the Apple Watch, doing pretty well on the market, this second product that’s going to be entirely branded with Tim Cook innovation is unsurprisingly useless. The patent describes a new Apple device that is a wearable strap made of a woven fine fabric capable of acting as a display. This strap, because that’s all it is, is meant to either act as a tether to a phone or tablet or to the Apple Watch. Although the patent holds evidence that the smart strap could be a stand-alone device, having its own chipset, it lacks a power source and does not hold ground as an untethered tech at this point.

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