Bixi was introduced by the Bluemint labs (France). Bixi is an IoT (Internet of Things) based product that can be used to do things with just simple gesture or board movements.
Bixi is a gesture device that uses Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy to communicate with other devices with a range of approx. 20 meters and has approx 1 month battery life.
Functioning: Bixi has different types of gestures such as Double tap, Wave up, Wave down, Raise/ Lower, Wave right, Wave left which can be used by the user to perform different task with just doing simple gestures.
Here is the list of few tasks that can be done by Bixi:
- Play/ Pause music
- Change music
- Activate google or Alexa (on echo smart speakers)
- Getting/ navigation directions
- Open smart door
- Take/ Rejecting calls
- Turn off alarms
- Send messages
- Controlling connected cameras
- Controlling lights and lot more others
Bixi gadget which uses gesture control technology is compatible with 100+ devices. Bixi also has an inbuilt microphone which means you give commands to your other devices like google home, smartphones etc. With it.
Application: Bixi is useful at the places where you can’t touch your phone like while doing cooking and other similar tasks etc. Because doing so can make your phone dirty. When driving because use of mobile phones are also not legal white driving and can cause severe accident.
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