Communication is an obvious part of our life and
with the invention of smart phones and its applications, it is becoming more
convenient day by day. Surely these new innovations will never stop; Sgnl is
yet another example of that.
What is
Sgnl, you might ask? Its quite simple, its a smart strap that will let you make
phone calls with your fingertips.
Sounds
amazing? lets dive into it then
Sgnl is a
project, initiated by CEO, Hyunchul Choi who
once noticed an embarassing situation of a colleague speaking using his
smartwatch; He noticed that his colleague had to talk so loudly that other
people can overhear what he was saying. Thats when Choi felt the idea of
creating such tech that could help avoid these kind of circumstances.
Sgnl has its strap which needs to be attached with users smart
watch dial(need not to be a smartwatch only) and you are good to go. When a
call appears, users need to press a button in the strap and place fingertip to
ear to hear the words, meaning that you dont even have to take your phone out
of your jeans.
These all sound facsinating; but how does this actually work?
Well there's obviously a science behind it. First Sgnl receives voice signal
via bluetooth from your phone. It then creates a vibration through BCU, short
of BODY CONDUCTION UNIT and this BCU consequently transmits the vibration
through hand to your fingertip.
Here we
must consider that if vibration is acutally stated safe or not from medical
point of view. There are many scientific evidences that low level, mechanical
signals, delivered with vibrations can be beneficial to health; however that
being said, not all vibrations are healthy, in this regard we have to consider
the intensity of vibrations too.
Moving
forward, the biggest advantage Sgnl has that even you are using your finger,
you dont have to worry about background noise as its blocking the noise and
keeping the volume loud enough to hear at the same time. Here is a real life
demo of people using Sgnl and their reactions:
Moreover,
when using Sgnl, users will only hear the voice from other end without being
overheard by surrounded people.
Heres
another demonstration showing the science of how Sgnl works:
Now i am
not going to be all chatty about every little magic that Sgnl pulls; you have
to find it out yourself from link below where you can find this Kickstarter
project and be able to contribute to make it successful and become real in
life.
This
project really caught my attention due to its futuristic approach of
communication. If Apple can restructure the wireless communication by ditching
headphone jack and building up chip that uses true wireless activity then in my
point of view, this innovation is worthy enough to take place in the market, in
real life and therefore should be backed by people.
Because
innovations like these cumulatively bring revolution.
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