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what's happening brian Tong here and welcome back to the Apple by returning to your normally scheduled programming after a couple weeks of break and the madness that is CES plus I'll finally announce the winners of our favorite things give away all right lots of news this week and the buzz is all around the Apple watch now apple recently released the fourth beta of the upcoming iOS 8 point to update and previous builds have included watchkit support for testing out apps in the bluetooth section now the latest update adds an Apple watch connection link and also revealed there will be a standalone Apple watch app now 9to5 mac has shown off some of the features of this companion app including an over-the-top virtual view of the Apple watch home screen so you can see how your apps are organized a new watch face called monogram will allow you to include one to four letters typically your initials directly on the watch face to personalize it now I'd go with B t + Z since my friends call me btz but I probably didn't need to tell you that I'll write a subtle red dot will appear on the top area of the Apple watch's clock face for new notifications and since there's no keyboard you can respond either using Apple's dictation which is world's better now or record an actual audio message the companion app will also let you activate Fitness features like reminders if you've been sitting on your butt too long your activity progress or completion of activity goals and the Apple watch app will show you storage capacity number of songs on the device photos and apps confirming that it will indeed have actual usable storage space the Apple watch was rumored to be shipping in spring of 2015 but the latest reports point to retail associates starting training on the wearable in mid-february with the actual apple watch targeted to ship by the end of March all right now one of the cool new pieces of tech from Apple's watch is force touch the big a's pressure sensitive touch technology that can distinguish between a light tap and a deep press now a new rumor report coming out of taiwan claims apple's considering using the force touch tek in its next iPhone that's realistically about nine months out can you believe it nine months and they're also considering moving to a dual lens design that would allow for optical zoom capabilities in the iphone for the first time now I like the idea of both of these features but I wouldn't expect them to throw these into the mix with such a short lead time this sounds more like iphone 7 stuff instead of success but I'm just hoping that I too can draw hearts that someone can feel from my iphone sooner rather than later I love you all right in Mac news there are still many of you waiting for a new macbook air with a Retina display according to digit times apple supplier quanta computer has begun ramping up production for the upcoming air ahead of its release that's targeting the first quarter of this year the new 12-inch air is expected to feature Intel's Broadwell core and processor with its fanless design making it thinner reports have also claimed it will get rid of almost all the ports found on current macbook airs and contain a headphone jack a pair of microphones and a USB type-c port to handle charging and connectivity alright shifting things to the smart home it was a huge theme at CES 2015 and we showed you I devices switch the first home kit compatible smart plug we talked about how it worked through its own app or with Siri with voice commands now that all works fine and dandy if you're at home on your Wi-Fi but if you're at work or heading out of town The Verge reports that you'll need to have a third generation Apple TV or later to remotely control them now that will serve as the hub for these smart devices when you're away so quietly the apple TV is becoming a more important part of apple's plan for the home and the more cool apple TV news a recently granted apple patent hints at an in-air 3d gesturing user interface for the apple TV Mac and future products apple acquired 3d sensor company primeSense back in November of 2013 that also works with Microsoft's Kinect and the patent grants a 3d UI for use with crime senses motion sensing hardware that is now all under apple now look the apple byte was away ahead of the curve on this one and imagined what this could be like a few years ago whoa do that it's called bright TV then wait yeah here I got you pause checks out bright TVs the best yeah it is so yeah coming soon to a living room near you and in our do not try this at home story a Chinese man yes my people decided to come up with his own Apple wearable and tried to smuggle 94 iPhones from Hong Kong where they're cheaper into mainland China by wearing them inside his clothes attached to his body now The Huffington Post reports the man was pulled aside by custom officials as a result of his weird walking posture joint stiffness and muscle tension now the iphone 6 plus is were selling for over three thousand dollars on the black market before they were officially available and for you sir I'm giving you an A for effort no bad apple none at all except dude you got caught alright let's announce the winners for my favorite things giveaway I asked you guys and gals to send me a picture or video of you taking a bite of the Apple and there were too many entries to pick from but congrats go to all 14 of you pictures from Alfonso Valentin Desmond Davis Eric grim freddie martinez George on Twitter Nicholas McCoy powertran and his threesome tres myth and yuva Morrigan and sorry James Conner you're not gonna win with this fake pic James all right videos like a vine from King Liang and singing by a arcady + undress Lin fan climbed down a rope chameleon style to bite that Apple faith on Kimbo even gave me a bad apple now you are not allowed to do that but I will let it slide this time and Paul share buff with the sweetest sounding Apple by that you could check out at the end of the show so congrats to all of you I'm gonna throw all your names into a hat and pick who wins the threes game codes mophie cases airframe pluses bose qc25 s and slingbox randomly and i'll be in touch to get you your goods alright that's gonna do it for this week's show keep emailing me at the Apple by to cnet com or tweet me at Brian song and I'll answer when not sleeping thanks so much for watching it will catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple