It may teach a new generation of technology users to use their fingers rather than a mouse — a four-decade-old technology — as a pointing and command device.
Alexa – a rival to Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana or Google Now – was previously only available in Amazon's voice command device Echo, but its wider availability could see it in Amazon's Kindles, tablets and other products.
In the light of these trends, Yuan and colleagues predicted that neurodevices will gradually replace the keyboard, the touch screen, the mouse and the voice command device as humans' preferred ways to interact with computers (Yuan, Hsieh, and Chang 2010).
Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are systems that allow us to translate in real-time the electrical activity of the brain in commands to control devices.
Science fiction writers have long imagined a future where we simply voice-command our devices, cars or spaceships.
The biggest brands in the consumer IoT space include Samsung, with appliances and its SmartThings IoT hub, Alphabet's Nest, Google and Amazon, whose IoT Echo speaker – which is capable of commanding other devices via voice – has proved popular in the US.
In particular, the Tablet version shall allow the visualization of the house map with the things in their respective rooms; Remote configuration of the home automation system, by sending commands to devices like turning on/off the lights.
Following this command, the device will ring at full volume.
It may be difficult to formulate just how many keyboards, screens and trackpads led up to the ability to command a device by simply swiping your fingers against its glass, but taking a look at just a few of MAL's contents should give you a bit of visual context.
Choose the command "Rename Device.
