New Apple patent application for Portable Gaming Accessory

A new patent application from Apple reveals amazing gaming accessories that are in the works. The accessory may include one, two, or more than two directional controls. These directional controls may be a D-pad. The patents show alternative variations of the gaming accessory that can include vibration, microphone, accelerometer, remote control, and camera functions. What's interesting is the gaming accessory is also desirable to communicate with other electronic devices, such as audio systems, TV, and monitors wirelessly via Bluetooth, WiFi, or other standard or proprietary wireless technologies.

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