| dethalternate | Date: Friday, 27-November-2015, 2:03 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Google Made a Secret Prototype That Works Like the Star Trek
The wearable device let users search by talking out loud
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Google developed a prototype wearable device based on the communicator in Star Trek. In science fiction, Captain Picard and his crew used their lapel pins to talk to the artificial intelligence and crew onboard the Starship Enterprise. In real life, the search giant created a circular device with a built-in microphone and Bluetooth allowing it to connect to a smartphone. The prototype was described to TIME in an interview by Amit Singhal, the executive in charge of the firm’s search initiatives.
The concept was intended to test out how users might interact with voice search in new ways. Worn on the chest, the Google pin was activated with a light tap. The prototype (pictured above) might output sound through an onboard speaker or by connecting to headphones. The idea was to make it easier for people to query to Google without having to fish out their cell phones. “I always wanted that pin,” Singhal said. “You just ask it anything and it works. That’s why we were like, ‘Let’s go prototype that and see how it feels.’”
Read more/full article/source - http://time.com/4121895/google-star-trek-communicator/
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