{"id":2772,"date":"2010-09-24T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2010-09-24T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T01:02:14","slug":"apple-headphone-and-camera-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/apple-headphone-and-camera-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Headphone and Camera Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1690956\/headphone-camera-patents-reveal-apples-obsession-with-design-detail\">Fast Company<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1690956\/headphone-camera-patents-reveal-apples-obsession-with-design-detail\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s beef is with the existing leaf-spring contact system, which is bulky due to the restrictions of the physical form of the connector itself. Basically, the complex plastic restraints and springy contacts themselves mean you can&rsquo;t easily choose the size and shape of the socket. And that means you have limitations on the format of the audio device you&rsquo;re building, including device thickness and placement of the socket on the motherboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other patent application is for a flash with multiple directional light elements.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company: Apple&rsquo;s beef is with the existing leaf-spring contact system, which is bulky due to the restrictions of the physical form of the connector itself. Basically, the complex plastic restraints and springy contacts themselves mean you can&rsquo;t easily choose the size and shape of the socket. And that means you have limitations on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}