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Apple patent granted for ‘Sports EarPods’ with biometrics and gesture-based controls

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<p>Apple’s <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/26/airpods-delayed-late-october/" target="_blank">delayed[/url] wireless <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/airpods/" target="_blank">AirPods[/url] may not be the only new earphones the company has in the works. A patent originally dating back to 2008 but only published today describes what seems a logical next step for a company increasingly focused on health and fitness: a sports earphone.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PALL&amp;S1=9497534.PN.&amp;OS=PN/9497534&amp;RS=PN/9497534" target="_blank">patent[/url] describes two types of functionality, one geared to gathering biometric data to provide fitness data, the other allowing gesture-based control of an iPhone …</p>
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