A new project has made its way to Indiegogo and has shown quite a bit of promise. The Glamos is a tiny device that has been developed by two ex-Samsung engineers and brings the ability to make any display to a touchscreen. It has already garnered a healthy backing with nearly 500,000 US Dollars being pledged.
To put it simply, Glamos is a small motion sensing device, which allows users to create a virtual touchscreen anywhere. It can connect to a gadget that has no touch interactive features and instantly transform it into a touch responsive device. Furthermore, after being connected, it can be placed as per the users’ convenience, near a wall, facing the air, or even on a whiteboard that is showcasing a presentation.
During this time of crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, gadgets like Glamos have a lot of added practical use as well. The virus is highly infectious and strands of it are even known to survive on various surfaces for a long while. Thus, Glamos can also potentially help save lives thanks to its touchless feature. For example, one can work on certain things like interacting with public kiosks without touching them, which is another step in preventing the spread of the infection.
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With the pocket sized Glamos one can add many and varied forms of functions to an already existing gadget. Despite being just 1.5 inches, it is the world’s smallest LIDAR enabled device and has the least power consumption as well. For those unaware, LIDAR is the technology heavily employed by self driving cars and even smart robot vacuum cleaners to assess the environment around them.
Glamos is currently compatible with most smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, Smart TVs, and other commercial kiosks as well. It has a sensory radius of three feet and can automatically scale the size of its virtual touchscreen from the size of a smartphone to even a display as large as 6 x 3 feet. This feat is made possible thanks to its rotating mirror module that can capture motion and gestures from 180 degrees.
It functions by using its rotating mirror module to scan its surroundings, measuring the distance between the object and itself. Thereafter, it transforms the data into touch coordinates and sends it to your smartphone, laptop, etc. This offers a bunch of unique and very useful interactions, with great examples being, giving a presentation on a regular whiteboard that displays your slides, turning smart TVs into interactive devices, turning mobile games into full fledged air gesture games similar to the Xbox Kinect.
Click here to check out Glamos on Indiegogo.
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