Google's breakthrough technology

Forget the physical touch screens and buttons, Google's Soli project allows users to control electronic devices by waving their hands in the air.

New technology developed by Google

Perhaps due to frustration because the finger always pressed the virtual key on the touch screen, the Google team invented a form of technology with extremely precise movements despite the small screen size.

Newly developed technology by Google - (Photos: YouTube / Google)

Called the Soli project, the system identifies the smallest movements of radar- based fingers integrated into microchips. Project leader, Ivan Poupyrev, is confident that his team's breakthrough invention could become a game-changing technology.

Mr. Poupyrev said the whole world is turning into a handheld device that allows us to manipulate them, and the question is how to interact with the whole world.'Using tiny radars, mounted on microchips to track hand movements, we can now trace the smallest parachute movements and hand movements to interact with computers and handheld devices', according to Russian inventor.

Sensors on the camera are now available, as Leap Motion can capture motion, but this approach is quite annoying and requires additional hardware. The impression of the Google system is that it uses invisible radar waves emitted from a chip that can be integrated into anything. Mr. Poupyrev's group said the biggest challenge was to shrink shoe-box radars into something as small as microchip.

Inspired by improvements in the next generation wifi technology, called wi-gig , Google's team was able to shrink radar components when working with German chip makers. is Infineon. The built-in radar is available on a large scale, and Soli can be installed anywhere, from furniture, cars, wearable computers, watches, toys, anywhere home. Production wants to connect with electronic devices.

Soli technology can also help people interact with objects in the virtual reality world (VR) and games.

Inventor Poupyrev demonstrated the power of the Soli system in a recent event in California by rubbing his thumb and fingers together to make a radio turn.'Soli can capture movements as far as 1 m like in the science fiction movie Minority Report (when the characters in the movie manipulate virtual objects by moving fingers in the air)' , according to Poupyrev. In the next few months, the project's open source technology will be handed back to developers to promote its applicability.