It’s an Apple patent application: please have in mind this can be unlikely to finally end up on your next device, please fasten seat belts and fasten your tray table within the fixed and upright position. Contained in the bezel of your iDevice or Mac is a magnet that operates a switch — so as to only be activated when a “correlated” magnet inside a key-fob makes contact. That is the thinking behind Cupertino’s newest patent application, trying to turn magnets right into a way of keeping your stuff secure. An example listed within the patent is using a stylus with specially encoded magnets to safely unlock an iPad, which we attribute to a zealous patent attorney and never a reversal of the ” they blew it ” rule. It is able to sound ridiculous once you first consider it, but given the magnetic-activation of the iPad 2′s smart cover , it isn’t as outlandish as you think. Still, we’ll believe it if we see it in a few years.
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