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Controlling your headphones or earphones requires a minimal amount of work. You need to press a button, play with an app, or tap the side of an ear pad (don’t get us started with voice commands, which should Never use outside your own home).
But tech site Patently Apple may have found the tech giant’s grand plan to cut down on its most obvious tech interactions, at least with its popular AirPods. According to two patents they discovered, Apple is investigating both hand gesture controls and “body sensors.” And the latter could mean controlling your headphones through an action like clicking the teeth.
As the site points out about these “input actions” that could possibly act as AirPods controllers: “The user can come into contact with an outer surface of their body, such as the skin of their face. Other examples of input actions include a user you click with your teeth or click your tongue. “
As Tom’s Guide states, the controls could even go beyond and outside of your own body. They may include shaking your head, moving your arms, or using “vocal sounds and subvocalizations (sounds undetectable to human ears)” to control your devices, or even hitting a table or squeezing someone else’s arm, which would not be uncomfortable at all.
You can check the latest patent here.
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