Gadgetory

at Google i/o 2014 we saw some of the craziest and the most beautiful stuff that Google is currently working on it's coming out of the advanced technologies and products group it's a team led by Regina Dugan and she's a legitimate badass this is a time Judah's presentation at i/o is essentially a grand introduction for a tab to the world she told us who 8f is and how they work for the next 45 minutes you're gonna get a glimpse of a small band of pirates trying to do epic here we don't tinker we build new things the cool that a tap is building is sometimes hard to describe these aren't the traditional consumer product prototypes are used to the first thing they showed us with project tango technically Johnny Lee showed us the all-seeing tablet that's able to see in 3d and know where it is in space it's called spatial awareness and it might help blind people move around and video game developers create amazing their stuff the best demo that we saw was of the tablet moving around five floors of Google's campus with only 1% of drift over the entire trip all map of just cameras and motion sensors not GPS oh and then there's soldiers attacking bathtubs and real time portal puzzles next up was Paul Eremenko and project ara it's a modular smartphone that should be arriving for developers as fall and it's coming along for the first time we saw real ara phone boot up laughs then we saw it freeze but the working phone should be arriving later and when it does we might have some pretty crazy modules for it why can't I slide in a module that's my key fob then take it out give it to a valet why not share the most expensive sensor or component among my friends my family or perhaps across a village if you don't want a new battery you can hot-swap a regular battery module to essentially get any battery life that you want last but certainly not least we got an update on spotlight story the neat little animated virtual reality seems that you might have seen on the Moto X a tap is working on a new one called duet even better they're working with animator Glen Keane who's worked on everything from my area of the Tarzan for Disney googled his drawings were painstakingly converted into CGI using gigabytes and gigabytes of data and then combine to make another virtual reality play basically a type has got a bunch of people who used to work at DARPA inside the Defense Department and they're all about trying crazy stuff that nobody else believes is possible craziest part of all is that they're actually pulling it all