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Apple wants a future Apple Pencil to work as a TV antenna

If Apple has its way, the very newest accessory for an iPad could be broadcast television as received through an Apple Pencil for some reason.

Diagram showing two transmission towers sending signals to a pen-like device, which then transmits to a screen displaying a paused video at 1:08.
Yes, that is an Apple Pencil acting as a TV aerial for an iPad. Obviously.

If you really wanted to, you could argue that Apple has a history of working with broadcast television, since it even had a Macintosh TV in 1993. Not the most successful Mac design ever made, it was painted black, came with a built-in TV tuner, and is said to have sold only around 10,000.

It also didn’t include everything you needed to get the about-320×200 broadcast television of the day. You still had to plug a TV aerial or a cable connection into the back of the card before it could show you anything.

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