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Appears to be still cooking in the lab. Similar to Ara and also Glass. Sounds like a research project that needs not answer the business question of how to make
by xngzng 11y ago
Appears to be still cooking in the lab. Similar to Ara and also Glass. Sounds like a research project that needs not answer the business question of how to make money. IBM, Microsoft, Apple likes to keep theirs secretive. Google likes to showcase.
- coherentpony 11y agoAdvertising. Wearing a specific brand of clothing will impact what your Google search results contain. Edit: To the downvoters: Why? Am I wrong? Are you Google employees?
- Dirlewanger 11y agoYup, that's a fucking scary-but-very-likely thought.
- cromwellian 11y agoI am an employee, but I down voted it because it's dumb.
- wldcordeiro 11y agoI prefer their method, it's nice to see what their R&D looks like.
- curun1r 11y agoWhile I think there's a lot of possible ways that this can make money in the future, there are some that are just so obvious that it doesn't really compare to other research projects that are more of a departure. The ability to control our digital devices using input devices built into clothing and furniture is just obviously compelling. Also, this isn't exactly new...Burton did something similar over a decade ago: (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934259_1934555_1934562,00.html http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...)
- sangnoir 11y agoMicrosoft Research[1] is hardly secretive for things that are cooking in the lab[2] 1. http://research.microsoft.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/ 2. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/hyperlapse-download_20150514.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/hyperlaps...