Google Search senior vice president and software developer Amit Singhal made sure that the company’s time invested in the build of a Star Trek Communicator-like device. The communicatiegadget came, however, never past the prototypestadium.
That writes the Time in an article about the ‘secret prototype’. The button to communicate makes use of bluetooth, a microphone, a speaker, and a light touch to be activated. Possibly the sound is also via a headset to be passed to the user.
The prototype was intended to test how users would be able to cope with voice searches. The idea was to make the people easier to search to enter, without a phone to appear to have it. In addition, the chef of the queries is a big fan of Star Trek.
