{"id":32500,"date":"2011-03-12T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2-blip\/"},"modified":"2011-03-12T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:00:00","slug":"is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2-blip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2-blip.php","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple Using a New Headphone Jack for iPad 2? [Blip]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 190px; padding: 1px;\"&gt;<a title=\"Click here to read Is Apple Using a New Headphone Jack for iPad 2?\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!blip\/\"><span>#<\/span><span>blip<\/span><\/a>&lt;\/div --><div><a title=\"Click here to read Is Apple Using a New Headphone Jack for iPad 2?\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!5781369\/is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"190\" alt=\"Click here to read Is Apple Using a New Headphone Jack for iPad 2?\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5319b_small_applenewheadphonejack.jpg\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div><\/div><p>\t\t\t\tKevin Fox, lead designer at Mozilla Labs, thinks the iPad 2 is using pogo pins instead of the more traditional switch contacts. They've actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/10\/09\/23\/apple_exploring_shrunken_audio_jacks_for_even_smaller_ipods.html\">filed patents<\/a> for the pogo pin style headphone jack (which is smaller) before and have been interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!5623458\/apple-wants-to-remake-the-audio-jack\">re-making the headphone jack<\/a> entirely. The difference is super slight but Fox thinks it makes the headphone jack waterproof. Not that your iPad is, though. [<a href=\"http:\/\/fury.com\/2011\/03\/ipad-2-introduces-new-headphone-jack\/\">Fury<\/a>]\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!5781369\/is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2\" title=\"Click here to read more about Is Apple Using a New Headphone Jack for iPad 2? 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They've actually filed patents for the pogo pin style headphone jack (which is smaller) before and have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/is-apple-using-a-new-headphone-jack-for-ipad-2-blip.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}