U.S. Soon, hopefully, the epidemic will enter the afterlife. It will probably be a temporary experience. Memories are still raw and conditioning – wash your hands for two “Happy Birthday” songs! Don’t touch your face! – Still instinctive. Meanwhile, during 2020, all the technology industry has moved towards minimizing products, sanitizing or trucking physical touch. Society is completely reopening and this can become permanent.
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Earlier this year, while pathologists were still working on the main ways of transmitting the virus, we began to see a new application for wearables. For example, the emute ch was a wristband, designed to break irregular habits such as nail biting by vibration whenever the user raises his hand in a certain position. The founders drew attention to it instead of the extinguishing product when you were touching your face. During the summer, NASA created a similar product in the form of a printed water-source 3D printed necklace called the Pulse.
Also reached touchless touchscreens, museums and malls controlled by gestures. The version was created by Idium, a version in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. You will not control any cursor with hand movements only, click your finger to click or make a fist to drag objects; If you physically try to touch the screen, the border turns red, the light reprimands. The system won UltraLap’s developer competition for designing a more obscure interface, a competition that also saw projects to buy customized ice cream and run an elevator.
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If you had to interact with the physical world, then both Apple and Samsung introduced hand washing features for mandatory cleaning on their smartwatches. For the Galaxy Watch, the Handwash app reminds you to clean up every two hours and allows you to swipe to start the 25-second timer once you start. In WatchOS 7, meanwhile, when you wash your hands with the motion sensor and the sound of running water, the device can automatically detect it while making the process timely.
To monitor your condition, the $ 300ura smart rings – which were released by the NBA – would like to detect Covid-19 features by detecting temperature and heart rate in other metrics, while Fitbit also introduced skin temperature tracking on its Sense smartwatch. Was. And, of course, Apple’s Pal and Google’s exposure notification project can tell you if you’ve crossed the road with someone who seems infected.
Yet, the fact is that the utility of some of these epidemics gadgets cannot advance the horrible times we have. For example, we need to don portable air purifiers like the ones that LG is offering. Also, as science has increasingly shown that the virus is spread primarily by air and not on surfaces, there are extremely jealous demonstrations of public disinfection, while regular hand washing and hygiene-consciousness remain important.
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For a sense of permanent touchless change in our world, then, consider using our contact rather than subtle tendencies to mediate what is already going on.
Contactless payments have been around for a long time; Major stores from 7 to 11 Kohls are now allowing store customers to pay through the app. Some U.S. airports are using digital tokens on smartphones to verify identities, reducing the backlog of giving passports to agents. New apartments are increasingly nicely arranged with Keyless Lux, which opens automatically when you’re nearby or activated via a smartphone. Rest Restaurants Rents have turned menus access menus (and sometimes payments) through QR codes on each table. Drone delivery now envisions a completely sterile supply chain, where no human ever needs to touch a touch object. As we have noted, this year they delivered everything from PPE to bagels with ongoing trials in Virginia and Florida.
These are all long-promised trends that are now linked to the so-called “new normal” of epidemic living: staying home where possible and always being aware of hygiene in the outside world.
Where other people need to work closely, computer vision startups are now selling their artificial intelligence capabilities to keep an eye on workplaces for sufficient social distance or mask-wear. Amazon, in fact, has implemented the technology – calling it a distance assistant in warehouses. This is not the only area in which Amazon has a major route. Echo frames – basically, glasses with Alexa – have been marketed as useful this year by Jeff Bezos’ company, as they can be operated without contact, a type of computing that allows you to interact under the face. Amazon’s cashier-less ‘go’ grocery store has been steadily growing – and suddenly the human supermarket worker finds it more appealing than exposing himself.
These technologies were already being developed. But the epidemics gave them a fresh start with the people. In times of social change, when people are forced to pick up fresh habits, tech companies take great pleasure in embedding their voice in computing or computer vision systems into society. Are we to say that computers that monitor the exact movements of every warehouse worker – how can that technology be used after an epidemic? – There is another question. That’s a question worth asking because once we put powerful new technologies into our lives, it’s hard to turn the clock back on them later.
Maybe we’ll wake up one day soon, all of us traveling, barely coping while working and shopping, let alone touching each other, another organic entity. If so, the funny thing is that this was our determined, individualistic future that we had already set out for. He just arrived a little early.
