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what's happened in brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple on this thanksgiving break plus the winners of our speck case giveaway and let's get to the show and it's now official Apple has acquired primeSense the company behind Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor for reportedly around 345 million dollars now Apple reps confirm the deal to cnet and this is exciting because we all know how this could play out with the Apple TV but it goes beyond that primesense's newest 3d sensor is called the Capri not those capris and it's a system-on-a-chip that's small enough to be incorporated into mobile devices like phones tablets laptops and more and I don't anticipate us to be playing something like dance central on an iPad anytime soon even if I want to now their technology can also be used in 3d scanners like this one called sense by 3d systems to create accurate 360 degrees scans of real-world objects that can then be printed apple acquired authentic and their fingerprint sensor back in July of 2012 and touch ID on the iPhone 5s was the first implementation of it primesense's tech will also take time to incorporate but I'm pretty excited to see how Apple will bring some new innovation from this to their new product lines and we've also talked about how touch ID could potentially open the floodgates for mobile payments in the past we're still far behind in the US but a job posting shows Apple is looking for a payment software engineer that will help build a next-generation payment platform that will push the boundaries in new markets for Apple Retail big words I know but NFC payments are still clunky here and there have been recent reports about Apple installing ibeacons into their stores so that you will get information delivered to your phone based on your location in the store since it will know what's on the shelf you're looking at because that's not creepy at all ibeacons could be part of this next-generation payment system Apple is hiring for I want my phone to be a true easy to use digital wallet but we'll see how it all comes together now let's check out some apple pads and a new revelation from website unwired view shows apples plans to give the touch ID button trackpad capabilities for example you could pan over a map that's displayed on a screen by swiping in any direction over the touch ID sensor it can even detect revolving your fingertip around the touch ID bun versus twisting it and yes I'm still talking about touch ID but just think of it as taking the home button to the next level to be used for navigation or different functions based on gestures with its 500 DPI resolution for detection and that's some real cool stuff now a recent patent was also awarded to the big a for a refocus abul camera with light field technology that can be used in a device like an iPhone now if light field technology sounds familiar the lightshow camera might ring a bell that allows you to refocus an image taken after it's been shot Apple mentions the Lytro is prior art in the patent but also states its own micro lens array can produce higher quality images because of a higher spatial resolution the patent also allows Apple to pursue this either with a standalone product or within a mobile device and I know I could use this on my phone because it seems like every stranger that takes a picture for me takes horrible pictures all right let's hit some quick bites and follow up we talked about the large screen 12 point nine inch iPad that's rumored to already be in production last week didja x is now reporting that quanta computer has landed its own contract with apple to mass-produce the tablet for the second half of 2014 and quanta is also competing for iwatch production orders that's being targeted for a second quarter 2014 launch according to the report also the recent introduction of new 27 inch and 32 inch 4k displays from AU Optronics have sparked speculation that these could be the displays used for apple's next Thunderbolt Display with the new Mac Pro coming in December now on lookers have been waiting for any technology that would even allow the big a to offer a 4k display alongside the mac pro but again we'll keep following this and finally a great story benefiting product red we've talked about how Apple's own Johnny ive and designer marc newson work together to create several one-of-a-kind products to benefit product red they're all red Mac Pro sold for 977 thousand dollars with the desktop originally estimated to sell at 60,000 in it looks really cool if you slap a coca-cola logo on it then the all-gold Apple earpods so for 461 thousand dollars and I just missed the winning bid by four hundred sixty thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and their special edition like a camera we showcased so for 1 million eight hundred five thousand dollars and that's why they call it one of a kind all right let's get to the winners of our speck case give away last week I asked to tell me what time is way past my bedtime and the correct answer was 1201 am I'm telling you all this this isn't an accident so congrats go to our twitter winners Fernando or at so official Trey underscore and Patty Kenyon who says 1201 am has past my bedtime too because i'm already dreaming about next week's apple bite all right I'm a sucker for that one and our email winners Sylvia parks Randy Chang and Eduardo Lopez who asked how do you manage to stick the cases to your nipples like that Eduardo it's magic so congrats to all of you and I'll be in touch and if you didn't win spec is doing a 10-percent discount off everything on their online store with the code cnet dash spec that's good until December the eighth alright that's going to do it for this week's show send me your deepest thoughts to the Apple by to cnet com or tweet me up brian Tong if it fits in 140 characters i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you all next time for another bite of the Apple you