Samsung’s Smart Windshield For Two Wheelers

A projector, a windshield and loads of tech. Aimed at reducing distractions!

One of our key initiatives is our Radar section, that covers products and technology that don’t yet exist in the market or about products that people need really soon.

One of the products worthy of getting a mention and an article unto itself is the Samsung Smart Windshield — a windshield for two-wheelers, aimed at making driving safe and free of distractions from the ever-buzzing phone.

It is a concept that makes a lot of sense. The premise is simple: give the two-wheeler rider information in way that he doesn’t need to use his hands to access it.

Put together with the help of a small projector and a windshield glass, the Smart Windshield basically projects in front of the bike rider, all the information from his smartphone that he might need, or want, including notifications, messages, emails, and calls, of course, but it also includes things like navigation that can enable the user while riding.

The Smart Windshield connects to the user smartphone via an app, and the user can program the app to reply on his behalf to calls and messages, with standard programmed texts.

While just a concept at this time, it definitely is an exciting one! The concept comes from Samsung Italy, specifically aimed at reducing the number of distracted riders (of which there are many in Italy!).

Dash displays have been in existence in cars and trucks for a while now, enabling the driver to see similar information on their dashboards; some two-wheelers too, have even innovatively worked on the displays inside helmets. In fact, a headgear-related idea came from Reevu a little while ago, and from BMW who want to put in a helmet-integrated heads-up display.

While in principle, this is not principally very different from Google Glass either — getting prompts, directions and notifications as you walk around and go by your day, however the concept from Samsung seems far most feasible and has immediate real-world applications.

The Yamaha Tricity was the first vehicle fitted with a prototype, to see how the concept performs. Floated via a YouTube video, the concept is a part of Samsung’s initiative called Launching-People, to show how technology can help solve real-world societal problems.

A company like Samsung, or for that matter, other companies of equal caliber existing in the market do possess the expertise and the resources to make it happen.

The Samsung Smart Windshield is then one of the things that one of these tech-giants need to bring to the market soon to establish edge their way into the innovators list, as they have been in the manufacturers’ roll-call for a very long time.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.