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Smart jeans, tiny radar, and other crazy inventions from Google's ATAP lab

2015-05-30
sadhguru we've always been working hard to build products for everyone in the world we tried it looked at technology and see by using technology can we make a difference to a fundamental problem in people's lives Google IO is a show all about the future there are wild crazy things happening here that could happen in a few years or not at all we don't know the exciting things that they're happening pushing those things as Google's advanced technology and projects crew they're building a modular smartphone and software with the rigs doing jaw-dropping 360-degree movies but their newest projects availed here this year shows are really different our hands is an amazing instrument it's very fast and precise but we still look able to capture this sensitivity you know user interfaces just still quite clunky the most insane thing ain't app is showing off here is project soli this is a tiny little radar system that can pick up the smallest movements of your hand one of the examples they did was something like the watch so you want to change the hours or seconds you can literally just hold your finger and twist or pick it up a little higher than twist a second it's the kind of thing that takes you from having to touch your device to touching over it or picking up gesture Google's already played around with that with Android wear but this idea takes it way out let's go project soli goes hand-in-hand with another project called jacquard this is basically conductive fabric they've created it can be woven into anything any sort of fabric we have to make interactive garments possible using existing when you talk share techniques and existing means actually supply chains we have to adapt the textile industry so every textile mill in the world can weave throughout the textiles each app is basically created its own fiber that is more conductive than anything else that's out there Google basically wants this built in the shirt sleeves and pants and they're not just doing this alone either so working with Levi's and today they announce a partnership we're gonna see some of the first clothes with this coming out we don't know when we don't and look like but imagine a pair of jeans that's actually like a touch pad or a code where you can control music with your wrist that's the big idea here one of the smallest things here is actually one of the biggest ideas it's called project fault and a tap to take on mobile security project vault will enable secure communications and storage they've created a very small computer inside a micro SD card that lets you do everything from encrypt video chats to actual communications without letting your phone or computer see what you're doing the big idea here is that your data stays with you and you can put it into any sort of device and not worry about whether it's secure it can be used from mobile to desktop to the Internet of Things and well that's a wrap almost this is the phone that basically lets you swap out cameras batteries whatever you want to do to make it your phone they're almost ready to launch this in Puerto Rico later this year so today they showed it turning on and taking a picture that's about as far as we're going so the big idea here is really that you'll be able to customize your phone and maybe upgrade a couple pieces here and there a few years later that's a really big idea it's just not ready yet a tap has a really interesting vision of the future but it's a lot to take in and a lot of these things seem like they're super far out even modular smartphones we thought they'd be here sooner they're not that's just the way it is but it is nice to know that someone's working on these problems you
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