Incrasingly Google is surprising by innovation and to built pertinent gadget's but at the same time incrasingly our doubts about how much they dominate our life and invade our privacy. In last year Google enters in the textile industry.
The Project Jacquard is creating textiles woven with grids of conductive yarns that are made with typical manufacturing. Google aspires make smart clothing, furniture and toys and their concern is not only usability but also the durability. They imagine control gadgets with fingers gestures in the clothing. Levi Strauss is also working with Google on this project and they announced that working to integrate touch panels into its clothing.
Google has worked on a sensor, a kind of radar, able to recognize hand movements at a distance of 5 cm to 5 meters. “You could use your virtual touchpad to control the map on the watch, or a virtual dial to control radio stations,” said Poupyrev a technical program lead in Google’s. “Your hand can become a completely self-contained interface control, always with you, easy to use and very, very, ergonomic. It can be the only interface control that you would ever need for wearables.” This woven touch sensor is based on a new way to make conductive fiber developed. " Conductive yarn was already on the market, but only in the color grey" Said Poupyrev. "Google has developed a way to braid slim copper fibers with textiles fibers of any color... We want to make interactive garments at scale so everyone can make them and everyone can buy them."
Recently Google announced that it is to use robotic arms to test the durability of this sensor. They use the robot to play repetitively touches on the new woven so as to know how long it lasts. They have concluded that could last up to nearly four years.
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