By Hugh Langley
If events like MWC 2015 have told me anything, it’s that smartphones have stopped getting smart. Better looking? Yes. Improved build quality? Sure. More powerful? Absolutely. But smarter? Not so much.
It’s very much the same story with tablets, although Google is attempting to push things forward with its hugely ambitious Project Tango. You’ve probably heard of it – this is Google’s shot at making a device that can see the world around it.
Thanks to a series of cameras and a depth sensor, Tango is aware of space and motion. Google’s made its name in collecting information from the world around us, so it should know what it’s doing here too, right? After all, Tango’s technical lead, Johnny Lee, helped develop Microsoft’s Kinect and had a hand in the functions of the Wii Remote.
Tango is really only meant for developers right now – the dev kit can be ordered through Google’s Play Store for the cost of around $1000 (around £655, AU$1282) – but I can already see that there will be big use cases for this thing.
Design and features
If and when Google pushes Tango into the mainstream, we can expect the hardware will be better …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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