Here's a new way to take control of everyday devices. Anicet Mbida presents us on Wednesday small cords capable, with a single gesture, of taking control of our objects. Like headphones, all you need to do is touch the wire to turn up the sound or pause your music.
After the buttons, the touch screens and the voice command, you are announcing a new way of controlling our devices: it will be with cords that we grind and pinch.
It's pretty clever. You listen to music. You have a helmet. And to raise or lower the sound, just twist the wire in one direction or the other. Do you want to take a break? We pinch the wire. Previous track, next track? We slide our finger all the way. Admit that it is still more practical than small buttons, a touch screen or worse, making voice commands.
What is a special helmet?
Not only. It is a technology that allows cords or fabric to send information when touched. For this, we add small wires inside and a receiver at the end. This allows you to know how the rope is twisted.
One of the first uses will be as a remote control on the wires of headphones. We will even add optical fiber in the rope so that it can change color when we are already at the bottom or when we reach the last track.
What if we prefer wireless headphones?
They thought about it. We would use the cords that hang from the hoods of sweatshirts. We could therefore order his helmet with a Bluetooth clothing. It was Google that developed this technology.
More seriously, we should also find it on lamps. We pull the cord to light. Then, you adjust the intensity by turning the wire. And we change color by pinching it. It's really a new way to control your devices. There are lots of uses to invent.