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Apple Watch X-ray Teardown

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  • The Taptic Engine—and the shaking weight that composes it—is one of the darkest, and therefore densest components in the watch.

  • In order to get the most bang (vibration) for its buck (space), Apple packed a tiny, heavy weight into its Taptic Engine to provide the vibratory feedback to your wrist.

  • Even though it's tiny, it still consumes a lot of the Apple Watch's precious interior space. While some users would rather see that space go to a larger battery, Apple clearly sees the Taptic Engine as an important part of the user experience.

  • Thanks to the X-ray, you can see the "engine" is a linear actuator. The springs move the weight up and down (side to side, when on your wrist) to create the vibration effect.

  • Creative Electron has a great video of some vibration motors running in real time—inside an x-ray machine. Rad.

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