The internet is all agog with rumors about Apple’s latest .. the I-Earring!
Rather than a smartwatch, Apple’s new wonder is meant for your ear! The petite device, featuring a synthetic diamond in the shape of the Apple logo, will include over ten sensors, where some sensors will be dedicated to track users’ health and fitness, others will interact with I Earring’s on your friends and colleagues, whispering message into your ear through a tiny nanotube speaker! Tim Cox calls it .. “nearest thing to telepathy!”
Apple has denied rumors that the I Earring was developed with North Korea as a way to provide 24/7 surveillance of its citizens. In fact, according to one source Apple, was planning to introduce a watch but reacted to overarching criticism that existing smart watches were big and clunky while failing to provide functions significantly different from that of a smartphone.
Billboard outside Apple’s new plant in North Korea.
This led to the effort at Apple’s facility in Pyongyang to
create a watch like device, codenamed Goldfinger, that could fit on a finger and also act as a stylus for the iPad. Plans for the Goldfinger were ended because of issues with Apple’s new plant in North Korea.
Ming-chi Kuo, the well-connected analyst at KGI Securities said that he expected Apple to launch multiple designs, appropriate for men as well as women. A sports model will be released that is “good enough for the NFL and features team logos instead of the Apple. (Based in part on an article at TopNews.In)