Weird new AirPods features + more details on the Vision Air (CultCast #654)

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This week, next-gen AirPods Pro with IR cameras that’ll do… what, exactly? We also have more details on the cheaper Vision Pro, a hidden feature in your iPad Magic Keyboard and an all-new Under Review!

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This week’s stories:

Future AirPods could use IR cameras for in-air gesture control

Apple could equip a future AirPods variant with camera modules. The earbuds may incorporate an IR camera, like the one Apple uses for iPhone’s Face ID.

Vision Pro:

Apple will get a board observer seat at OpenAI later this year

Apple Inc. will get an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a landmark agreement announced last month, further tightening ties between the once-unlikely partners.

How to find the iPad Magic Keyboard’s hidden backlight

Some people complain that the Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad doesn’t have a backlight for the keyboard. Turns out it actually does have one, but the controls aren’t where you might expect.

Apple Watch can detect leading cause of heart attacks, doctor says

The Apple Watch can detect a leading cause of heart attacks — an unadvertised capability that could have big implications for health monitoring — according to a Dutch doctor.

The 8 weirdest unreleased Apple products

Apple only shows off its finished products, which makes the company’s secret prototypes and early concepts all the more fascinating. Even if you’re well-versed in Apple history, these alternate-history unreleased Apple products will intrigue and confuse.

Under Review:

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0:00.0	Hey, want to see some dinosaurs? Yeah, dinosaurs. Let's go to man here.
0:08.0	Boating, see, Rom, and the windows.
0:10.0	Where's the dinosaurs, Dad?
0:12.0	Not sure.
0:13.0	Do you see them now?
0:16.0	Not yet.
0:17.0	Fig dot says.
0:18.0	Configure jumpers and dip switches.
0:20.0	Dad, what's a dip?
0:22.0	I don't know. Where are you going to do the crandals?
0:24.8	Was it the crandles? They have a mat.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the whole cast the best 30 plus spin app conversation. You're going to hear. All week long I'm your host, Airfrontalads, joining me today.
0:41.1	He honed his writer management skills in the corridors of
0:44.9	Chino State Penitentiary where he served some hard time but got to produce the
0:50.4	prison newsletter and motivated the writing team with single cigarettes and
0:53.2	threats of violence. He's imagining editor Paul to Mac.
0:56.3	Louis Wallace is here.
0:58.2	Okay yeah.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	Also with us, I gotta move on, Lewis, we took too long.
1:08.0	Also with us, tomorrow, hopefully celebrating the 4th of July.
1:12.0	The way he does every year by dusting off and wearing the stars and stripes thong underwear that it keeps hidden in his room.
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