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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte for everything good at bad inside the world of Apple let's get to it and follow-up reports by The Wall Street Journal and others confirm Apple is indeed working on an electric vehicle of their own with hundreds of Apple employees working to design an apple-branded minivan like electric vehicle under the code name project Titan yes the apple mini van the van for everyone now this is a serious project for Apple that was approved by cook in 2014 an apple vp of product design and former ford engineer steve's adess key is reported to be heading the apple cart development now when the world hears news like this everyone has a reaction including former General Motors CEO dan akerson who said about the apple car project they have no idea what they are getting into and you know he has a point he adds they better think carefully if they want to get into the hardcore manufacturing we take steel raw steel and turn it into a car now this smells like history repeating itself when a market that Apple wants to get into feels threatens immediately criticizes them and warns them of the difficulties Apple's not fazed by this at all and clearly it didn't stop Tesla and yes for everyone in the YouTube comments that love saying this the Apple car will come loaded with Windows all right Apple pay support continues to roll out after adding 19 new banks this month bringing the total to over 80 financial institutions even Samsung just acquired mobile payments company loop pay to get into the game so what's apples next step well taiwanese rumor site apple club which has a solid track record claims that touch ID is coming to max this year and will enable Apple pay functionality they report the upcoming 12 inch retina macbook pro air and future macbook pros will integrate the component above the standard trackpad because of the lack of space on Apple laptops for a dedicated touch ID sensor they also report for desktops like the imac mac pro and mac mini touch ID will be enabled by the way of an upgraded magic mouse and magic trackpad now yeah this sounds like a bit of a stretch without a doubt Apple at least thinking about it touch ID on the desktop primarily would be best for unlocking your computer and great for password management even more than Apple pay transactions so we'll wait and see an apple watch news a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed several of the original health features apple hope to incorporate were dropped due to consistency problems the report said the bake a originally featured sensors that measure the connectivity of skin to detect stress levels and heart rate monitoring similar to an EKG and also experimented with blood pressure readings but ended up having to scrap them because of inconsistent results depending on how tight the watch was worn or how dry someone's skin was or even how harry they were a real talk you know fanboys would be getting bikini waxes on their wrists just to wear an Apple watch now the features were dropped and that's why it pretty much gathers all the same info any other wearable Fitness band does right now we know the watch is coming in April and the Wall Street Journal report also says Apple will make 526 million in the first quarter half of the units will be for the Apple Sport Edition one-third will be the middle tier stainless steel ones and the rest will be the 18 carat gold ones which some are projecting to be apple's most expensive product ever alrighty news from patently Apple Apple has been granted a video headset patent in really who isn't doing one these days in the patent Apple would provide a video headset frame that allows a user to slide an iphone or ipod into it to watch video there would also be a picture in picture mode feature so you can check on your actual surroundings in case you get caught up watching a movie in public with the headset on and you would also get alerts or notifications for things like messages and emails the system appears to have some physical controls or a remote but also could be controlled via Siri so get ready guys and gals the future is now and Apple has also been awarded a patent from their primeSense acquisition for a 3d virtual keyboard that would enable users to type in air now a 3d capturing device with multiple cameras would be able to detect the user's hand movements and then the user would be able to type and control a virtual keyboard by using their fingers no apples application would have to feature cameras accurate enough to detect subtle fingertip movements for this to work so we've had the guitar for years and guys have been getting girls with this go to move well at least I have there's even a world championship competition for this yeah you didn't think I'd prove it huh and coming soon to a home near you the air keyboard all right in some fun use if you aren't a fan of modern family by now you've got to check out their februari 25th episode titled connection lost where the entire episode happens from a mac OS 10 yosemite desktop and yes they fake some effects to make it work properly but even cooler the entire episode was shot with apple's iphone 6 and ipad air 2 tablets now the format of the show was inspired by a 17 minute short film called Noah that took place entirely on a computer screen Apple and ABC's parent company Disney are tight friends disney acquired pixar in 2006 and SJ sat on the studio's board a director so clearly there is some cross-promotion back scratching going on here but it's a cool idea either way alright you can email us at the apple by the cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and i'll respond when i can thanks for watching in I promise my voice will return next week for another bite of the Apple