Google enters into the television – New Technology

     Samsung Gear Live with Google’s Android operating Wear. Photo: Samsung
     

Several smart watches with Google’s operating system unveiled at Google’s developer conference I / O on Wednesday. And in addition to the cell phone and the computer takes Google now also in the car to your TV as Here is the news from the conference.

Samsung, LG and Motorola showed off their smart watches based on Google’s Android operating Wear, unveiled in March this year.

Samsung’s Gear Live and LG’s G Watch can be ordered directly for between 1300 and 1500 crowns. Motorola’s smart watch Moto 360, coming later this summer, unlike the other two a round shield, and a look that is more reminiscent of a traditional clock.

Gear Live is similar to Samsung’s previous model Gear 2 which was based on its own operating system Tizen. Samsung tried initially with the standard version of Android, but realized that the power consumption was too high.

Android Wear is specifically designed for small Fitted appliances watches, and supports both rectangular and round screens. It relies also heavily on Google’s Google Now – a voice-controlled assistant that collects information from the user’s calendar, e-mail and daily habits to quickly provide information that the user may need in the moment.

During the initial presentation at the developer conference I / O mattered Google ambition to Android and its apps to work seamlessly on different devices. Centrally is a new graphic design that Google calls Materials Design, which clearly can be seen in the Android Wear.

It is characterized by clear colors and minimalist design with a lot of air. On a special website may app developers tips on design principles.

Much of the presentation focused on Android as today according to Google has a billion active users sending 20 billion text messages and makes 93 million “selfies” day.

More news, besides the clever bells, comes to increase the use of Android.

A general new version of the operating system, Android L , going to fall. Innovations will include a more boundless difference between apps and web pages as tabs on the same screen. Also new is a search function that shows pictorial searches directly in a kind of slide show. Also new is the lower power consumption based on a development project called Project Volta, and the option to delete mobiles in the distance even if they restored to factory settings – a feature that Apple previously launched.

Android One is the name of a type of package for the development of very cheap mobiles. The package includes besides operating a batch of simple components at low price. As examples mentioned Google a collaboration with the Indian manufacturer Micromax, which has developed a smartphone with 4.5-inch screen and dual sim card for under 100 dollars. Android One begins in India was the first country.

Android Auto is a special version of the operating system designed for cars, focusing on navigation, communication and music. Very controlled by voice commands, and it should be possible to synchronize some parts of an Android mobile with the car’s systems. Although the Android Auto has the feature Google Now a central function.

Both Apple and Microsoft has previously announced its investment in the auto industry.

Android TV replaces Google’s previous project for televisions – Google TV – which had very limited success. The system is a kind of extension of the small usb plug Chromecast stuffed into the TV and allows one to stream content to your TV from the Internet or from a mobile phone or tablet with Android.

The Android TV, intended for televisions and set-top boxes, there are also apps. According to Google, Sony and Sharp to launch devices with Android TV in 2015.

A common development tools for Android will make it easy to develop apps that work on all different platforms – mobile, tablet, TV, car, clock.

Another first is that some Androidappar starts working on laptops belonging Chromebook – computers that are based on making the most directly in the browser, mainly based on Google’s own web-based network services.

Linked to the Android Wear launched Google also Google Fit – a function to collect data from various hälsoappar. Apple has previously launched a similar feature called Healthkit.

In concluding his presentation shared Google charges a small kit in cardboard that makes mobiles a simple 3d mesh. The box holding the phone in place and an associated app projected two images side by side on the screen, which together provide a stereo image when each eye sees a respective image. For the DIY kit is also required two lenses to look at the screen at a short distance.

The kit is similar to the Swedish mask Binopad developed by Univisual Technologies, however, also corrects the images on the screen so they are not perceived as distorted when viewed through the lenses.