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Who knew? Smart cables...  The new “Lightning” interconnection cable introduced by Apple last year includes an integrated circuit that allows the devices connected by the cable to verify its authenticity.  With IOS7, the newest release of the Apple's operating system for mobile devices, unauthorized cables now won't work.  The speculation is that Apple is responding to reports of electrical shocks caused by after-market cables, but it could be as simple as Apple wanting to hang onto their cable profits.  The most surprising thing to me is that integrated circuits combined with robotic assembly has now made it cost effective to embed some reasonably smart circuitry into a simple cable...