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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple by for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple this week's lead story has a rotten smell all over it now Apple was just granted 44 patents covering a wide range of products but the biggest one was a patent that gives Apple a way to stop iPhones from taking photos or videos at concerts or other venues now the patent describes your phone's camera detecting an infrared signal and interpreting the data that signal could disable both photos and video recording now an infrared emitter could be located on stage where pictures or videos are prohibited now at first I want to throw it a bad apple I mean I paid for these tickets I know a lot of you are screaming for one so here that's for you but at the same time I hate how conscious are completely ruined by everyone holding up their phones taking videos and snap chatting I just hate that unless it's justin bieber falling through a trapdoor okay no Bieber's were hurt during the filming of that concert but on the flip side there are some good uses for the patent museums could use this same text to automatically display information about an object you're viewing now Apple is already working with artists for exclusive new releases on Apple music and they've even funded music videos like hotline bling so you could logically see how they could apply this to apple branded concert events just another way to control the experience for better or worse alright another Apple granted 10 will allow you to control the Apple TVs user interface with 3d real time in air gestures in the future think a Minority Report now the patent would allow you to control pinch and zoom rotate and press virtual buttons to control the Apple TV without a remote it would still require some sort of camera sensing Tech and Apple did acquire primeSense in 2013 that company was responsible for the tech inside the first Microsoft Kinect now Siri Plus this Plus a TV streaming service would be a pretty sweet package if it ever comes out also another apple patent brings a 3d graphical user interface this time to computer systems that be able to detect a user's gaze and then allow them to interact with a virtual touch screen to control navigate a Mac based on the context of what they're doing again all of these pads do not guarantee we'll ever see them in the future but it could happen alright I was trying to hold off on the flood of iphone news but you can't stop it you can only hope to contain it check this out an image from nowhere else fr of a leaked iphone 7 casing claims to show the back of the upcoming 4.7 inch phone with a larger protruding camera cut out backing the claims that will see an improved c MOS sensor but rumors of a dual lens camera for the iphone 7 plus continued to conflict after this picture from microblogging site Weibo shows off the pill shaped enclosure for the dual lens it's still uncertain if this is an early prototype so we'll just have to wait until sep tember I know it's far away for the official confirmation also a picture from nowhere else FR shows us the rear shell with two symmetrical speakers on the base and a single Lightning port with no speaker headphone jack Weibo leaks claim to show us Apple's ear pods with a lightning connector on the end of them even if rumors claim will see the standard airpot headphones with a lightning adapter dongle but in an actual story that's not a rumor apple supplier cirrus logic has announced a new m5 headset development kit that's specifically geared for accessory makers to quickly produce lightning based headphones now m-phy stands for made for iphone ipad ipod and the kit includes form factor reference designs and the advantages of the high fidelity audio connection but one thing we know the next iphone won't have is wireless charging and I feature accessories that I actually love using on the show so check out mophie is bringing wireless charging to their juice pack line and they're calling it charged force there's these different charging pads like one for your office a Destin or even one that mounts on your car's air vent and it gets even cooler with magnets that align it to hold it in place now you didn't know this but most of their current cases actually have the tech inside them already cases start at $99 and the different charge for spaces start at 39 i've been using their air vent one in my car and it's honestly pretty sweet and yes i'm working on getting some for you the apple biters in the few all right now the overall sense i get from everyone including myself is that the next iphone won't really be that special and all eyes are already on the 10th anniversary phone but maybe google is going to give them a little scare that they need a telegraph report says google is planning to release its own google-branded smartphone that will compete directly with the iphone we've heard google has wanted a more integrated apple-like experience controlling both hardware and software for a future phone the new device is expected to be released by the end of 2016 so we will wait and see and you know what let's wrap things up on a high note Florida resident Thomas s Ross filed a lawsuit against apple claiming that the iphone ipad and ipod infringed on his 1992 invention of a hand-drawn electronic reading device see you can see here how this device looks exactly like the iPhone iPad or iPod now Ross filed for a utility patent that protects his invention in 1992 but it was declared abandoned in 95 by the USPTO he is seeking 13 billion dollars in restitution and a royalty of 1.5% on apple's worldwide sales of infringing devices Thomas s Ross my friend good luck to you alright that's going to do for this we show you can always email us at the Apple vidas cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong if you have a cool sketch of your iPhone or iPod or whatever that you think deserves 13 billion dollars send it along thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all 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