Students' Google Assistant for Kids and a Tricorder-esque Toothbrush Win Future Lions at Cannes
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A child-friendly version of Google Assistant, a website for CNN that lets viewers interact with election candidates and a smart toothbrush that detects disease were among the winners of this year’s Future Lions contest at Cannes.
The awards, sponsored by AKQA, attracted entries from more than 2,100 students from 64 countries, making it the most successful year to date.
Google Assistant Kids, an idea by Min Young Park, Jisoo Hong and Ji Hoon Kim at the School of Visual Arts, recognizes that children love asking questions, but unfortunately, internet answers are often too complicated for them to understand. Google Assistant Kids is able to determine the age of a user by recognising their pitch and pronunciation, and will automatically simplify the answer, dependent upon the age identified, making it easier for a child to understand. It can be used on phones running Google’s app or on Google Home devices.
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