Much of today’s wearable gadgetry is designed to track activity and movement for fitness purposes. Berikut ide yang lebih asing, courtesy of paten baru awarded to Google on Feb. 10: Sebuah gerakan-tracker yang mengaktifkan pengharum ruangan yang terhubung ke web untuk memancarkan wewangian untuk menutupi bau apapun menyinggung disebabkan oleh aktivitas fisik.

Itu betul: Ini dasarnya dpt dipakai Glade plugin.

If the device sensed its wearer doing something active—like working out—it would whir into action, wafting more pleasing odors than the body itself might emit.

This proposed device doesn’t seem to have much faith in its own ability to improve the odiferous wearer’s reception, namun, because it also would offer help for skulking unnoticed past any friend in the vicinity.

It would do this by connecting to the wearer’s social networks and detecting if any friends are nearby. Jika demikian, the device would send the wearer a map with a route to navigate around those friends.

Paten ini awalnya merupakan gagasan dari Motorola Mobility, yang diterapkan untuk paten di 2012, meskipun dianugerahi minggu ini. It’s unlikely that this particular piece of intellectual property was one that Google had its eye on when itu membeli perusahaan untuk paten, tetapi bahwa mungkin: Masa depan penemuan ini sekarang berada di tangan Google. (Motorola kini dimiliki oleh Lenovo, tapi Google mempertahankan sebagian besar portofolio paten.)

Quartz has reached out to Google to ask whether the company would ever in a million years actually manufacture a thing like this. We will update this post with any response.

Banyak paten tidak pernah berubah menjadi produk, dan yang satu ini terasa sangat tidak masuk akal (mungkin hanya dipukuli sampai hadiah untuk aneh dpt dipakai oleh Wig pintar Sony). And while many patents are filed solely for protective reasons, this innovation seems to solve a problem that few have ever felt the need to solve. (It would be interesting to know whether the patent writers often found themselves in this predicament, dan jika demikian, apakah mereka dianggap bukan hanya mandi sebelum menuju luar.)

It’s strange to imagine that in its last days of independence, perusahaan di balik pertama flip-phone and one of the terlaris ponsel ever was concerning itself with how we smell in public. Mungkin ini sebabnya Motorola sekarang menjadi keempat jauh pangsa pasar smartphone AS.

 

Sumber: qz.com