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Researchers at the University of St. Andrews within the U.K. have developed SpeCam, a technology enabling smartphones to carry out duties by recognizing the surface they are sitting on. The group says SpeCam would let existing telephones utilize the camera operate to acknowledge totally different supplies they have been uncovered to, and this data would hyperlink with a beforehand created database so the telephone may know what sort of floor it has been placed on. As well as, this system would enable a phone to perform sure duties based mostly on the best way wherein it is being held, such as altering the amount on a TV. Because the required hardware already exists in smartphones, the SpeCam system may very well be enabled via a software replace or application download, based on the researchers.

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