{"id":75172,"date":"2018-01-11T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/google-bought-a-uk-startup-that-turns-screens-into-speakers"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:02:19","slug":"google-bought-a-uk-startup-that-turns-screens-into-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/google-bought-a-uk-startup-that-turns-screens-into-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Google bought a UK startup that turns screens into speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-bought-a-uk-startup-that-turns-screens-into-speakers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Google has demonstrated its desire to step up its hardware game. The company bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/20\/google-buys-htc-pixel-team-1-1-billion\/\">HTC\u2019s Pixel team for $1.1 billion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/17\/google-reveals-pixel-visual-core-imaging-chip\/\">designed its own imaging chip<\/a> for the Pixel 2 and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/13\/google-hires-apple-veteran-to-build-pixel-chips\/\">hired a key Apple chip designer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-11\/google-makes-little-noise-buying-u-k-sound-tech-startup-redux\"><em>Bloomberg <\/em>reports<\/a> that in its bid to gain an edge on the competition, Google has quietly snapped up UK startup Redux, a small team focused on delivering sound and touch feedback via mobile displays.<\/p>\n<p>According to filings, Google took control of the startup back in August and then subsequently shut down the company\u2019s website. Previous demonstrations show Redux playing back music via a tablet device, which possesses tiny actuators that vibrate the screen and effectively turn it into a loudspeaker. By eliminating the need for smartphone speakers, Google may be able free up more space for batteries and other important components inside future smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/11\/google-acquires-redux-uk-sound-haptic-startup\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/11\/google-acquires-redux-uk...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Google has demonstrated its desire to step up its hardware game. The company bought HTC\u2019s Pixel team for $1.1 billion, designed its own imaging chip for the Pixel 2 and also hired a key Apple chip designer. Bloomberg reports that in its bid to gain an edge on the competition, Google [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,42,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75172","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75260,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75172\/revisions\/75260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}