Apple Hires Prototype Engineer Expert for Secret Project
Apple Hires Prototype Engineer Expert for Secret Project
Posted 03/15/2010 at 11:39am
| by Bart Salisbury
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So, what now is Apple up to? Inquiring minds want to know! Well, perhaps they don’t, but that’s not going to stop the speculation. And it takes so little these days to start speculation going. For example, it seems that Apple has just hired a brainy guy to be a Senior Prototype Engineer, for a super secret project. Which can only mean Apple is up to something ‘fantastic.’
Know No one really knows what Apple is up to. And there’s the few who just don’t care. Still, space needs to be filled. What is known is that Apple has hired Richard DeVaul, a holder of a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT and founder/president of AWare Technologies. DeVaul’s area of expertise is “wearable technologies.” His dissertation was on “memory glasses,” which improve performance on a “memory recall task by a factor of 63%” without distraction. At AWare, DeVaul worked on customized high-performance personnel monitoring for the U.S. Army, DARPA, and Olympic sports organizations. AWare is responsible for the health-and-fitness iPhone app StepTrackLite.
What DeVaul will be working on at Apple is only known by seven people, including Jonny Ive, in who’s secret lab DeVaul be working. Maybe there’s an iShirt, iHat, iWatch, iPants, or iShoe in our future?
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Trooper_One
March 16, 2010 at 1:10pm
So what's this now, they're developing a new shirt for another Mac commercial for Justin?
Almost everyday, I'm reading some news bit about Apple/Mac on a PC magazine.... I know the parent company of MaximumPC also owns a MAC related magazine, but common....
The Apple story isn't mostly based on technology but on hype and style! O.o
mesiah
March 15, 2010 at 7:49pm
You are all wrong, but you are all right. Didn't you know? This is how apple designs products these days. They start a little rumor that they are making a new product and let the media and the web go crazy with speculation. The ideas start flowing, people start pumping out "concept" photos, and before you know it apple has a new product on their hands. The best part is, they don't even have to pimp their own product because the media hype machine has already done it for them.
mesiah
March 15, 2010 at 7:51pm
MAXPC you seriously need to tune down your spam filter. I had to heavily modify my last post just to get it past the all knowing eyes of your filter. Aparently any mention of ad-ver-tisement and it shuts the doors.
monkeykid753
March 15, 2010 at 2:57pm
First, they predicted the iPad. Now... the iRan (shoe) and iRack (possibly). Somehow, they are psychic and I want their secret powers
lien_meat
March 15, 2010 at 1:40pm
The next conceptual step for portable devices and ultra-mobiles is evolving towards wearables...
It's obvious that Apple already understands this. Their recent product branding pretty much proves it (ipad joke, not a good one). They probably hired him to figure out how to best wear the ipad as the name suggests and still make it be as "magical" as the promote it as being, whilst still letting it be functional (as if it was in it's current form...). Or maybe they are planning an entire line of feminine hygene inspired products in electronic form...Ok...but seriously now...wearables are the next logical step, even though consumers now don't seem to care for the idea, maybe Apple wants to change that. Nokia for example has some concept phones that use projected interfaces and a wearable form factor. It wouldn't surprize me if Apple is trying to beat the rest of the industry to the punch...or at least patent the ideas after they have already been brought to the market a couple of years earlier...heh.
TechJunkie
March 15, 2010 at 1:53pm
Max-ipads? ibras? iUndies? ....or....iDeodorant? With iDeodorant, ya know, an iPod built in, Would they charge 99$ to replace the "deodorant"?
If I only had patented my thoughts 20 years ago, the little apple fritters and turnovers would be mine.
TechJunkie
March 15, 2010 at 12:25pm
I understand this is a technology magazine but to my understanding, the name of this magazine is MAXimum PC. Catering to PC enthusiasts. Is it not? Save the Apple stuff for the sister site/magazine you own/manage.
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