Google Chrome Gets New Superpower
Google have released their latest experiment to Chrome and it might just be the coolest thing ever!
Tone is the newest browser add-on that uses sound to quickly share links with anyone nearby. It is available now on the Chrome web store and can be used by anyone with Chrome, regardless of what type of computer you might have.
For it to work, it must be installed on all computers that want to send and receive links, must be within range of each other and must have the volume turned on. Once the link you want to share is open on your computer, all you have to do is click the extension on your browser and wait for a series of beeps. The link will then be shared to all nearby computers via a Chrome notification.
It’s hard to believe that the add-on was created in a single afternoon, but Google’s Alex Kauffman and Boris Smus confirmed this in their research blog.
“Tone grew out of the idea that while digital communication methods like email and chat have made it infinitely easier, cheaper and faster to share things with people across the globe, they’ve actually made it more complicated to share things with the people standing right next to you,” Kauffmann and Smus write. “Tone aims to make sharing digital things with nearby people as easy as talking to them.”
