What you will do ,if suppose you are busy and your phone is ringing quite far away from you & you want to reject the call or pick it up or if you want to increase the volume while watching movie from your phone placed at some distance. How will you do it ??
Your answer would be , that obviously you will go and pick the call or reject the call as you do always. But i would say that soon operating your phone manually, would just be an option for you.
Getting restless to know how..?? I will be giving you answer for this later in this post.
Actually, i'm going to introduce you a little about the "Project Jacquard ", that has been announced by the Google this year at its annual developer conference 'I/O ' , held at San Francisco(United States).This is a very unique concept , founded by Ivan Poupyrev ,one of the team members of Google's ATAP team. The project is going to innovate the product of textile industry, that is our clothes.
This project involves manufacturing of a conductive yarn , that is done by braiding together the metal alloys and the fibers of some fabric. This conductive yarn helps to create a kind of fabric panels ( a touch sensitive panel same as screen of your smart phones) which act as an interface to interact with a digital device such as a smart phones or tablets. We can operate our smart devices using their controls with the help of this conductive yarn.
What happens is that when we touches a grid made up conductive threads , it automatically sends a signal to a chip which may be located somewhere in our clothes. That chip then translates those signals into controls for the devices such as smart phones.
Now i will answer the question i've asked above .Using this technology , you can pick a call or increase volume of your phone without even touching it.What you need to do is just rub your sleevs....;)
The company Google wants to make this project scalable , along with making the products trendy as well as fashionable.Google wants to make it available for all using existing clothing brands.The name Jacquard is chosen for this project , after the name of Joseph Marie Jacquard, the inventor of Jacquard weaving process.
One of the major advantage is that the conductive metal alloys can be woven into any type of fabric using normal industrial looms. We can also choose desired color of yarn. Also the yarn seems so natural though very strong in nature. The chip i've talked about that receives signals is very compact in size equal to that of a blazer's button.It's embedded with the circuits & connectors.
Mr. Poupyrev showcased a prototype , that is a blazer at I/O 2015. In 2016 Google can launch its products based on project Jacquard in collaboration with Levi Strauss & Co. This company will take the charge of manufacturing the garments only. Technically it will be handled by Google.
The development of the platform or environment for Jacquard is under progress, according to the Jacquard Website.
In the end , i would say that after smart phones, smart cars, smart homes, smart gadgets, smart kitchens.......we will all have smart clothes. Thanks Google.
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