Levi's Denim Jacket Can Control Your Phone

Levi's Denim Jacket Can Control Your 

Phone

Levi's and Google are teaming up to release a jacket next year that weaves sensors into the sleeve for controlling smartphones with swipes and taps.

By this time next year, you may be able to control music playback on your smartphone just by swiping down on your jacket sleeve. Next spring, Levi's plans to release a denim jacket with sensors woven into the fabric that gives you a convenient way to operate a paired device.

The Levi's Commuter Trucker Jacket was developed with assistance from Google's Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) division, which has been working on ways to integrate into sensors into textiles. There's no word on how much the jacket will cost when it arrives in the spring of 2017.

The denim jacket uses conductive yarn woven into the garment's fabric to create a patch you can control just with a touch. There's also a detachable smart tag on the cuff of the jacket, which connects the embedded sensor to your phone. That rechargeable is flexible enough to curve around the jacket cuff.

During a demo of the Trucker Jacket at Google's I/O developers conference today (May 20), a member of the ATAP team controlled music playback by swiping down on the jacket's sleeve. Other swipes and taps can silence calls, summon up directions, and get an estimated time of arrival. A companion app for your phone will let you manage features and controls.

Google revealed plans to integrate fabric and sensors at last year's I/O as part of its Project Jacquard effort. In the year since that debut, ATAP technical program lead Ivan Poupyrev says that efforts have focused on developing new weaving techniques to better blend in sensors with the fabric so that the patch you use to control your phone looks like any other part of the jacket.

Project Jacquard has also concentrated on building a garment that can stand up to repeated trips through a washing machine. And once you remove that smart tag from the Trucker Jacket, it's ready to be cleaned. "This is technology you can wash," said Paul Dillinger, vice president of global product innovation at Levi Strauss & Co.

ATAP's Poupyrev says the Levi's jacket is just the start for Project Jacquard. You might also see athletic and business wear that incorporates the sensors in the near future

Levi's® Commuter™ x Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket

Google has announced the first Project Jacquard item to come to life which is made in collaboration with Levi's. The Levi's Commuter Jacket will let bikers navigate their smartphones by simply using their sleeve as a touch sensor. It works by attaching a sensor to the jacket which will allow the smartphone app to communicate with the phone.

The sensor is flexible, allowing it to connect to any size jacket and remain comfortable. Durability is a key feature, as you don't have to treat this jacket any different. You can pop it in the wash, use it the way you would any other jacket, and benefit from its smarter features.

You'll be able to control various apps right from the jacket. Some of them include Google Maps, Google Play, access your calls and messages, and other third-party apps as well. Developers will be able to build custom apps directly for Project Jacquard as well.

ARA´S PROJECT MODULAR PHONE OF GOOGLE

¿WHAT IS ARA´S PROJECT

MODULAR PHONE OF GOOGLE?

We've been keeping an eye on the progress of Google's Project Ara for a while now, and the radio silence had us a little worried. The idea for a modular smartphone, where individual hardware components like cameras, speakers and battery packs can be easily swapped out to customize your device, was too intriguing to languish in limbo. But Ara will languish no more, as the tech giant gave the project some much needed attention at its I/O conference last week. We now know a lot more about how the system works, how it fits into the current landscape of modular phones and why we should be (at least cautiously) excited about it.

As consumers, we're already used to customizing our phones, whether it's downloading apps according to our lifestyle, or picking out cases based on our sense of style (or tendency to drop the phone). The concept of modular smartphones takes that several steps further, allowing us to essentially build our own phone, picking and choosing the hardware pieces we want. Are you constantly snapping and Instagramming photos? Slide in a higher resolution camera. Go camping a lot and can't charge your phone for a few days? Take an extended battery pack with you. As new hardware is released or if something breaks, upgrading individual pieces is cheaper, easier and less wasteful than just binning the whole phone and starting over.

Phone modularity is an ambitious idea, and it's one that could completely change the industry and the direction of technology for years to come – or it could just peter out into nothing. Google is obviously banking on the former, devoting ten minutes of an I/O talk last week to reassuring us that Project Ara is still coming, and revealing some features for consumers and technical details for developers.

If you'd asked us a week ago how much confidence we had in Project Ara being revolutionary, we probably would've grimaced and pointed to the grave of Google Glass. But with this new batch of info, we want to believe this is the next generation of smartphones. We don't yet, but we want to.

ABOUT ANDROID S.O.

What is Android and what is an Android phone?

Android is now over seven years old and despite the green robot android peeking out of phone shops up and down the high street, there are still plenty of people who don’t know what Android is.

If you fit into this category then have no fear; this article is your complete guide to understanding what Android is, what it can do and where to find it, including the best Android mobile phones, Android apps, which games you can play on Android devices, the very best features you can enjoy and how to update to the latest version.

What is Android?

Android is the name of the mobile operating system owned by american company; google. it most commonly comes installed on a variety of smartphones and tablets from a host of manufacturers offering users access to google’s own services like search, youtube, maps, gmail and more.

OPERATIVE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

What is an operating system? 

An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer. The other programs are called applications or application programs. The application programs make use of the operating system by making requests for services through a defined application program interface (API). In addition, users can interact directly with the operating system through a user interface such as a command language or a graphical user interface (GUI).

An operating system performs these services for applications:

• In a multitasking operating system where multiple programs can be running at the same time, the operating system determines which applications should run in what order and how much time should be allowed for each application before giving another application a turn.
• It manages the sharing of internal memory among multiple applications.
• It handles input and output to and from attached hardware devices, such as hard disks, printers, and dial-up ports.
• It sends messages to each application or interactive user (or to a system operator) about the status of operation and any errors that may have occurred.
• It can offload the management of what are called batch jobs (for example, printing) so that the initiating application is freed from this work.
• On computers that can provide parallel processing, an operating system can manage how to divide the program so that it runs on more than one processor at a time.

All major computer platforms (hardware and software) require and sometimes include an operating system. Linux, Windows, VMS, OS/400, AIX, and z/OS are all examples of operating systems.

INTRODUCTION TO PERATING SYSTEMS

Simple Definition of operating system

• Computers : the main program in a computer that controls the way the computer works and makes it possible for other programs to function

Full Definition of operating system

• Software that controls the operation of a computer and directs the processing of programs (as by assigning storage space in memory and controlling input and output functions)