Google recently published a patent for toys, making it a device taking human-toy interaction to the next level. This patent for toys filed by Google is to let the toys interact with other devices at home and pay attention to who is in the room.
Richard Wayne DeVaul and Daniel Aminzade, the inventors filed the patent in the name of Google in February of 2012. The US Patent and Trademark Office showed off diagrams representing rabbit and bear toys with cameras in their eyes, microphones in their ears, their necks with motors and mouths fitted with speakers, configured for controlling multiple devices as they being connected to the Internet. As per the patent published, the anthropomorphic device could be a toy or a doll resembling an animal, a human, an inanimate object or a mythical creature.
‘Anthropomorphism’ is a word meaning being ‘creepy’ to some. Getting human characteristics assigned to something that is not-human may sound fishy but what Google engineers might work out could be the technology around it.
According to the patent description, these anthropomorphic toys can take up a spoken media device command from their user and then lift turn their head gazing back to the user. Not limiting to this, these toys can also respond and convey commands to the concerned media device with pre-recorded phrases. To put in a nutshell, these ‘creepy’ toys can act as personal intelligent remote to their users making operating various home devices simple. These toys are to have household appliances, checking out when a person enters the room or gives out commands.
But hold on, before it can trigger you with the feel of how cool this could be, remember it is just a toy, in fact a very creepy toy – besides being able to listen and respond to your commands, it also picks up social signs. This being in fact Google’s one of the creepiest patents ever filed.
The toys communicate wirelessly using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or other means using cloud-based computers and also can manage other media devices like playing songs or so at children’s command.
What could in fact be the point for consideration with these ‘creepy’ toys is theirspying ability. Sporting an innocent exterior, these stuffed toys fitted right on to your kid’s bed can actually be tracking your conversations and movements. Also children might actually not like or react well to a toy that turns its head towards them and so it can end up being a toy not suiting well for children.
When Google commented upon the patent, it deliberately accepted that several patents have been put based on its employees ideas, but not all of them are developed or given as a product. So this ‘creepy’ patent not likely to be friendly to all might end up both getting developed and not getting developed.
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