The basic principle of Moore s law computing becoming more powerful yet more compact is playing out in a number of fields, and one of the latest is coming
It s been a while since we ve seen a really out-there device come from Google, along the lines of Project Ara or Google Glass. A new leak from the X division of Google s (technical) parent company Alphabet certainly qualifies. According to the unconfirmed report, Project Wolverine is a device that lets the user isolate audio to focus on a specific person or source.
Details are light, though Business Insider reports that the technology has been in development since before 2018. The application is obvious: plenty of people have difficulty hearing one person in a crowd, to say nothing of those whose hearing is physically impaired. (Yes, the project is named after the super-hearing ability of