Google’s best new gadgets – and how you might use them in education
Google
has just finished its Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, which is
where they unveil the gadgets and apps which seem outlandish now, but
could transform our world in the short-term future.
Translating from the high-end geekery can be hard work, but these are
likely to be the tools and apps that could end up in your hands:Project Jacquard
There’s not much we can be certain about with this, yet, beyond a tantalising website filled with spools of thread, and new from CNET that talks of normal fabric acting like interactive touch pads for a variety of smart devices. Which sounds weird, but this could be the first genuinely wearable technology – clothes, or at least patches, that control your gadgets. Those leather patches on the elbows of your tweed jacket? You just turned on the TV… This could be hugely significant and, again, a whole new way to interact with technology – in the classroom and at home.
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Jump is Google’s big push on virtual reality – a new VR platform which will allow anyone to create and upload VR content – a YouTube for a new generation. And if you don’t have a virtual reality camera? Then Google’s much talked-about collaboration with the GoPro camera people comes in with Array, which has 16HD cmeras in a circle and software which stitches the images captured by the Array into a single “image”, which anyone wearing a VR headset can then “look around”. As a classroom aid, this could transport transporting classrooms of children to a whole new world.
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Now on Tap
You may be one of the few who used Google Now, but the idea of having an app that you can quiz is getting so much closer. Like a clever Siri, you can ask questions related to the apps you use of the searches you’ve made – ‘tell me the names of the Plantagenet Kings’ or ‘remember that museum I looked at earlier, get me their phone number. And an Uber to get me there’.
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Offline Google Maps
You’re on a field trip and lost – and with no internet connection or signal? Maps without the need for wifi or roaming charges. Download the map in advance and get around without the live link.
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source:http://dailygenius.com/googles-best-new-gadgets-and-how-you-might-use-them-in-education/
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