{"id":136578,"date":"2022-03-09T02:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/google-may-be-developing-wearables-that-respond-to-skin-gestures"},"modified":"2022-03-09T02:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:43:23","slug":"google-may-be-developing-wearables-that-respond-to-skin-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/google-may-be-developing-wearables-that-respond-to-skin-gestures","title":{"rendered":"Google may be developing wearables that respond to skin gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-may-be-developing-wearables-that-respond-to-skin-gestures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has patented technology that will let users control its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/best-smartwatches-706178\/\">smartwatches<\/a> and earbuds by simply touching their skin.<\/p>\n<p>The patent titled \u201cSkin interface for Wearables: Sensor fusion to improve signal quality\u201d was spotted by folks over at <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.letsgodigital.org\/wearables-smartwatches\/google-pixel-watch-pixel-buds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>LetsGoDigital<\/em><\/a>. It details tech that users can use to operate wearable devices using skin gestures.<\/p>\n<p>Patent documents show that users can swipe or tap the skin near the wearables in order to control them. The gesture creates a mechanical wave that is picked up by the sensors in the wearables. The \u201cSensor Fusion\u201d tech then combines this movement data collected from various sensors into an input command for the wearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has patented technology that will let users control its smartwatches and earbuds by simply touching their skin. The patent titled \u201cSkin interface for Wearables: Sensor fusion to improve signal quality\u201d was spotted by folks over at LetsGoDigital. It details tech that users can use to operate wearable devices using skin gestures. Patent documents show [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136578","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}