Technology content trusted by users in North America and around the world.
4,966 Articles | 29,991 Posts
Select Your Edition:  
Tweakipedia
A wealth of
tech information!

USA EditionYou are located: Home > All News > Wearable Computing News > RumorTT: More talk on Apple's 'watch computer' floats around, rumors of a 100 person team circling

RumorTT: More talk on Apple's 'watch computer' floats around, rumors of a 100 person team circling

By: (more) | Wearable Computing News | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 6:38 am

A new rumor has crawled out of the probably dusty and dirty rumor mill, this time coming from Bloomberg. Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano report that Apple have a team of around 100 product designers working on a 'wristwatch-like' device that shares functions from iOS devices.

 

rumortt_more_talk_on_apple_s_watch_computer_floats_around_rumors_of_a_100_person_team_circling

 

The report listed managers, members of the marketing group and engineers that worked on both the iPad and iPhone. Two specific Apple employees are named, first, James Foster, who is a Senior Director of Engineering and another manager named Achim Pantfoerder, who are said to be on the - what I'm calling - iWatch team.

 

Pantfoerder has been credited with multiple patents, one of which is a joint patent with Apple's Tony Fadell for integrated proximity and light sensors that ended up getting baked into the iPod touch, iPhone and iPads, as well as another patent in relation to Apple's stereo headset jacks, and more. We should see this third rumor as solidification of Apple releasing a wearable computing device, and not just some rumor from 'sources within the upstream supply chain'.


SOURCE #1

Related Tags



Further Reading: Read and find more Wearable Computing news at our Wearable Computing news index page.

TweakTown News RSS FeedDo you get our news RSS feed? Get It! Got a news tip? Tell Us!

Post a Comment about this news



Check out our
RSS feeds!
  • Upcoming Content: Western Digital Scorpio Blue (WD5000LPVT) 500GB HDD Review
  • Upcoming Content: Scythe Mugen 4 Tower CPU Cooler Review
  • Upcoming Content: NZXT Grid 10 Port Fan Hub Review
  • Upcoming Content: Western Digital My Passport Edge for Mac 500GB External HDD Review
  • Upcoming Content: PQI Air Card 4GB Wi-Fi SDHC Review
  • Upcoming Content: LaCie CloudBox 1TB Personal NAS Review
  • Upcoming Content: Whatever happened to Comodo Time Machine?
  • Upcoming Content: MyDigitalSSD BP4 240GB mSATA Review


Wearable Computing News Posts

View More Wearable Computing News Posts


TweakTown Web Poll

Question: What new stuff are you most excited to see at Computex Taipei 2013?

Cases, Coolers & PSU’s

CPU's

Gadgets

GPU's & Video Cards

Keyboards & Mice

Laptops, Tablets & Phones

Motherboards & Chipsets

New Tech

SSD's & Memory

Booth Babes

or View the Results

View More Polls

Forum Activity

View More Forum Posts

Wearable Computing Press Releases

View More Wearable Computing Press Releases