Star Trek: The Next Generation made talking via a little button attached to someone’s chest look cool, and there is a new report that Google tried to bring that science fiction item into reality.
According to Digital Spy, Google actually made a very Star Trek like communicator, but the project never went anywhere once it was developed.
Amit Singhal, a Google senior VP, spoke about the idea recently. He said:
“I always wanted that pin. You just ask it anything and it works. That’s why we were like, ‘Let’s go prototype that and see how it feels.'”
It did not feel right though because the project was shelved.
Would you have purchased the Star Trek like communicator if Google had followed through with its production? Tell us what you think.
It is effectively a BT speaker with an action button… so that is common enough. However, as a pin it would have to be attached somehow, like a magnetic half inside your shirt, or some kind of clip that would make a shirt or blouse look stupid with a pinched fold for it to hold onto. It would have to be light as to not pull down the clothing, but with a big enough battery to maintain a BT connection all day and drive the speaker and I could see a headphone jack for a high noise environment. All in… Read more »
I’d get it. Its cool
Yes, I would have bought one. Its basically a wearable two-way radio. The military probably has a version for the soldiers. But this one has to reach from the planet surface to the starship in orbit.
I would have bought one for the whole family.
Hell yeah!
Yes I would buy a communicator if it was available.
YES … !!!
YES! I would have bought one linked to my cellphone with Siri style linkage. Tap it, say the persons name you want to contact. Let the phone do the work. If there are more than one phone number have the phone ask back “cell, home, work?”
Use Blue Tooth to link the two.!! How much simpler can it get. !!!
Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote that “Any sufficiently developed technology will seem as Magic..” I very clearly recall reading the then-proposed Short Messaging Service protocol and not thinking that much of it. It’s authors only thought of it in fairly narrow business application terms. No one really saw “Tweeting” on the horizon just as Alexander Graham Bell did not think the telephone was all that big a deal. There are two major pieces to be seen here. First, the communications technology from the individual to a nearby comms node and then an enormous network of such nodes blanketing a given… Read more »
Of course I would have purchased a Star Trek-like communicator. I would like to know why the project was shelved? I would think there would be a great consumer base that would buy it, especially for companies that wanted to keep in touch with employees, families that want to keep in touch with family members.
Hell yes! That’s so neat. Why did they stop
Yes I would if it’s Bluetooth capable it would be great for cell phones to