{"id":117163,"date":"2020-12-15T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/earable-computing-a-new-research-area-in-the-making"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:23:29","slug":"earable-computing-a-new-research-area-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/earable-computing-a-new-research-area-in-the-making","title":{"rendered":"Earable computing: A new research area in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earable-computing-a-new-research-area-in-the-making.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CSL\u2019s Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call \u201cearable computing.\u201d The team believes that earphones will be the next significant milestone in wearable devices, and that new hardware, software, and apps will all run on this platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leap from today\u2019s earphones to \u2018earables\u2019 would mimic the transformation that we had seen from basic phones to smartphones,\u201d said Romit Roy Choudhury, professor in electrical and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computer+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer engineering<\/a> (ECE). \u201cToday\u2019s smartphones are hardly a calling device anymore, much like how tomorrow\u2019s earables will hardly be a smartphone accessory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the group believes tomorrow\u2019s earphones will continuously sense <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human behavior<\/a>, run acoustic augmented reality, have Alexa and Siri whisper just-in-time information, track user motion and health, and offer seamless security, among many other capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSL\u2019s Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call \u201cearable computing.\u201d The team believes that earphones will be the next significant milestone in wearable devices, and that new hardware, software, and apps will all run on this platform. \u201cThe leap from today\u2019s earphones to \u2018earables\u2019 would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523,1495,1512,1492,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-security","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}