{"id":645289,"date":"2013-03-05T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=360356"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:55:54","slug":"apple-could-ditch-the-home-button-for-pressure-sensitive-casing-in-future-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645289","title":{"rendered":"Apple could ditch the home button for pressure-sensitive casing in future iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/iphone-pressure-sensitive-patent-360356\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-iphone-5-z-1.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"iPhone Pressure Sensitive Patent\" title=\"iPhone 5\" \/><\/a><\/center>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) a patent for a new way to control an <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> by squeezing it. The patent describes a system that could measure and react to different amounts of pressure applied to a device&#8217;s external casing. The invention can be utilized by a large range of electronic devices, such as smartphones, laptops and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/apple-iwatch-release-date-359226\/\">perhaps even Apple&#8217;s rumored iWatch<\/a>. Apple has relied heavily on its physical home button in its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices in the past, but a pressure-sensitive casing could give the company more freedom when designing its next-generation products.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/L96dgsW6B5Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple (AAPL) a patent for a new way to control an iPhone by squeezing it. The patent describes a system that could measure and react to different amounts of pressure applied to a device&#8217;s external casing. The invention can be utilized by a large range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}