Credit: Romit Roy Choudhury, The Grainger College of Engineering
CSL s Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call earable computing. The team believes that earphones will be the next significant milestone in wearable devices, and that new hardware, software, and apps will all run on this platform. The leap from today s earphones to earables would mimic the transformation that we had seen from basic phones to smartphones, said Romit Roy Choudhury, professor in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). Today s smartphones are hardly a calling device anymore, much like how tomorrow s earables will hardly be a smartphone accessory.
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