Taptic Engine

Apple’s V.P. of environment, policy, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson, has today revealed that the company will be using recycled rare earth elements in iPhone's Taptic Engine, a part that allows the iPhone’s glass display to mimic a physical button click, Reuters is reporting. For those who aren’t familiar, rare earths are a group of 17...

According to a new report from Fast Company, Apple will likely adopt solid state buttons for the future version of the Apple Watch. The solid state buttons would use the Taptic Engine to provide feedback instead of a physical click. Apple will reportedly still use a two button configuration with the Digital Crown and Side...

Future models of the Apple Watch could get a little bit slimmer if ideas discovered in a new Apple patent ever come to fruition. The patent application in question details a haptic motor that located in the band of the watch instead of the watch itself, which would allow for the device to slim down considerably....