Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google’s smartwatch with radar for gesture control”.
Hey we are inside a tap, which is Google’s special division for making basically crazy technology dreams come true. You may have heard of some of their projects. They’Ve made project ara, which is a modular smartphone. They made project to card which turns your jeans into a touch-sensitive fabric, but today we’re looking at something called project: soli they’ve, basically taken radar and turn it into a tiny, tiny little chip, so small, in fact that they can make it work inside a SmartWatch they’re Working on the power issues they’re working on the software, this is all still very much a prototype, but it’s a really amazing prototype. So, let’s take a look, so slowly works by radar and what you do is, as you move your hand closer to the watch, the radar picks up your hand and it can see how close you’re getting and once you get in close, that’s when you can start Doing fine-grained controls so right here.
What I’m doing is I’m literally twisting in a virtual, invisible dial, and that is switching around the interface on the watch. So, in addition to working with LG on making solely working a watch, they’re also working with JBL to make it work on a speaker, you can push your hand towards the speaker and the speaker lights up, and then you can flick your fingers to start the music And flick your fingers again to stop it. So that’s what any type had to show us with project soli this year. It’S really amazing, but again it’s still just a prototype, but with these partnerships they are working towards putting these in real consumer products someday.
This isn’t just a Hey look. What we can do when we’re done. It’S, let’s build something, and hopefully it won’t take more than a couple years to get there. You you, you .