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The sensor revolution continues. Gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, proximity sensors all packed in there with a wink sensor too. It's only missing a barometer,
by cryptoz 14y ago
The sensor revolution continues. Gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, proximity sensors all packed in there with a wink sensor too. It's only missing a barometer, hydrometer and thermometer! Perhaps those will make it to a future production version of Glass.
- kall 14y agoWell i wouldn't say only. I can think of lots of other sensors that would be cool. Ultrasound proximity, laser based range or ir thermometer come to mind. The whole range of biosensors that are found in fitness gadgets like the Basis band would also be cool. Its also touching your temple, so it could even do EEG like the NeuroSky headsets. The possibilities for cool sensors are really unlimited.
- cryptoz 14y agoHa yes, I agree. There are so many things you can do even with a microphone which it obviously has. I wonder if it can hear things that the person wearing them can't hear? I think we're all expecting the brain-computing interface to be a ways off, but when you mention that the Glass prototype is already touching your temple and packed full of sensors...they're just getting ready I guess.
- XorNot 14y agoEEG sensors for brain wave detection?
- MasterScrat 14y ago"Passthought" Glass unlocking? ;-) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70726?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70726?...
- sp332 14y agoOne of Neil Gaiman's episodes of Dr. Who, "The Doctors' Wife", features a thought-password. The password is "crimson, eleven, delight, petrichor" but you have to think of the concepts in order instead of saying them out loud.
- RossM 14y agoSome phones have barometers for GPS (not sure how that works) so I wouldn't be surprised to see that. Perhaps Google are building their own weather center out of human drones.
- cvs268 14y agoBarometers measure pressure. And knowing the pressure at your location(assuming its atmospheric pressure and that U are not in a sealed chamber) one can calculate the altitude(mean height above sea-level). This further improves the accuracy of your location when using GPS to calculate Latitude and Longitude.
- joshu 14y agoGPSs measure altitude too. Do you have any idea how a GPS works?
- revelation 14y agoIt's used for a quick fix and no you don't have altitude unless you have enough satellites.
- Isamu 14y agoThe Galaxy Nexus uses the Bosch BMP180 barometric pressure sensor. This means you can get a faster GPS location with fewer satellites. That's the main motivation for it. http://www.bosch-sensortec.com/homepage/products_3/environmental_sensors_1/bmp180_1/bmp180 http://www.bosch-sensortec.com/homepage/products_3/environme...
- gmrple 14y agoOf course this thing is supposed to be connected to your phone, so do you really need all of those sensors on glass? How much does pressure vary between your face and your pocket? (I honestly don't know, feel free to tell me if you do). Orientation sensors make a lot of sense, but I would imagine they can get away with putting more sensors elsewhere.
- lnanek2 14y agoHaha, before recent findings I was thinking of taping my TI SensorTag to my Google Glass - and that does have a barometer. I don't think most Android phones do, actually. Also handy in that it would add some extra buttons that can be read by BLE as well...