Wednesday 1 January 2014
7 Awesome Innovations From Google
Bangalore: Google turned 15 this year and has come a long way in terms of innovative products and ideas. From the ultra-modern Google Glass to auto-driven cars, Google’s persistent zeal to achieve quality innovation in variety of fields never seizes to amaze us. As compiled by TOI, here are 10 awesome innovations from Google to celebrate the company’s 15 years of awesomeness.
#1 Password alternatives
Over the last few years, Google has improved its efforts to kill passwords forever. Announcing its support to Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO), the company is working on novel means to verify user’s identity when they access their online accounts. Motorola is mixing science with health and is exploring the application of Proteus Digital Health pill, which is has a unique ECG trace that can be used to identify users via external devices. Dennis Woodside, CEO of Google’s Motorola unit also spoke about flexible electronic circuits that can be used as unique passwords by embedding them into people’s skin.
#2 Google Glass
Google Glass is a real-time product right out of a science fiction story.
Technical specifications
For the developer Explorer units:- Android 4.0.4 and higher
- 640×360 display
- 5-megapixel camera, capable of 720p video recording
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth
- 16GB storage (12 GB available)
- Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 SoC 1.2Ghz Dual(ARMv7)
- 682MB RAM "proc".
- 3 axis gyroscope
- 3 axis accelerometer
- 3 axis magnetometer (compass)
- Ambient light sensing and proximity sensor
- Bone conduction transducer
#3 Smartwatch
To compete with other electronics company manufacturers, Google is also stepping up the game by exploring its potential in designing Smartwatches as it recently acquired WIMM Labs, an expert in wearable technology. Google Smartwatch is expected to launch in 2014 and its applications are said to resemble Google Glass. Reports say that Google has unveiled the Smartwatch at three Google meetings held at Mountainview, Manchester and Berlin and global unveiling of this innovative gadget is yet to be seen.
#4 Google Street View
In 2007, Google started the Street View project and over the years, the project has been intercepted with several innovative features that set it apart from its competitors. Google street view option comes along with Google maps, and when selected it provides a panoramic, 360 degree street view imagery of various places around the world. Street view also comes in a 3D version. Using street view, users can see the photos from around the world right from their desktops, mobile devices and also can access it on Nintendo Wii U.
#5 Google driverless cars
#6 Internet balloons
Google recently launched its Project Loon, where it sent out air balloons strapped with internet antennas into the stratosphere at a height of 20km. This project was launched to connect the developing countries where internet connection is weak or almost nil. Through this, Google aims to provide 3G speed via internet balloons which covers an area of 1,256 sq m each.
#7 Android
Google has left its mark in the Smartphone world as 80 percent of the Smartphones today are powered by the company’s Android Operating System. Even though Android is not an original product of Google as it acquired the company that made the OS, Google treated the OS as its own by adding its innovative touch to the software. Initially Android was meant to serve as an OS for digital cameras, but Google turned it into mobile software much before Apple came out with its iPhone.
Today, Android OS with its various versions that are named after a dessert or sweetener, is one of the most popular softwares to be used because of its easy interface, wide range of free apps and its open source nature that gives users option to update their Android versions on their devices for free. Because of this, Android is popularly adopted as OS on mobile devices from companies like Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, Micromax and Xiaomi.
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15 January 2014 at 11:54
Nice work by google
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