New Delhi: After a Barbie that can interact with kids and answer their innocent questions, Google is apparently foraying into a similar segment by developing stuffed toys which could control media devices in your home like a TV or a music player based on WiFi.
The search giant has filed a patent to develop a device in the form of a doll or stuffed toy that can interpret voice commands and map it to the media device and control it.
This could mean if you have the purported technology fitted inside a cute teddy bear sitting next to you on the sofa while you watch the TV and you don’t like the show, you can command it to change the channel and it would be able to do so. Creepy? Not yet.
A connected stuffed teddy bear would come with sensors and cameras that can sense your gaze and be able to turn its head to look back at you. Imagine a situation when you command something from the kitchen and the teddy first looks at your direction, before following the ‘social cue’-described by the patent description as a movement or a spoken word or phrase- to change the song playing on the music player. Now, this surely is creepy.
However, not all patents these tech giants file are able to see the light of the day. These ideas are not necessarily an indication of turning into final products or to actually come with all the said features.Therefore, a connected Chucky is yet to be conjured up in our drawing rooms, changing channels for us and aiming those scary gazes at us.
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