Google's Sensor Chip Soli Eliminates Touchscreens

In 2011, Google played an April Fools prank on unsuspecting technophiles across the globe, when it introduced a new product called Gmail Motion. #Google #Soli #pixel4

This new technology promised gmail users the ability to use not-so-simple hand-gestures to navigate gmails interface, demonstrated by that stone-faced office worker you see there.

The prank was well received and everyone enjoyed a good laugh. But, either by coincidence or a little predictive programming, a few years later, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group introduced Soli.

Project Soli a relatively new sensing technology that uses miniature radar to detect and interpret the world around it with incredible precision.

It's a game-changing technology that's set to revolutionize the way we interact with all our devices moving forward. The need for things like keyboards, mice, and even touchscreens will be all but eliminated, and replaced with simple hand gestures used to control our virtual universe.

The haptic sensation of fingers touching each other along with visual confirmation will make the interactions feel physical and responsive.

This of course, is only one possible application for the technology. Researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland used one of the first developer kits to teach Soli how to recognize real-world objects.

The soli chip emits a signal higher than currently allowed, so, it was denied approval by the FCC when first introduced. But in January 2019, the FCC granted Google's request to operate the chip at the slightly lower 57 to 64 GHz frequency band.

Although, not confirmed by Google, there are strong rumors that the new soli chip could debut in the Google Pixel 4 device.

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