In a blog post on the website Bump today, CEO and founder David Lieb announced that his company has been sold to Google. Bump has developed proprietary technologies that allow devices to exchange data. The strange thing about the pioneering technology is that to exchange data, such as photos or contacts, they simply “crash” their phones. With a simple bump, the data changes devices. What makes Bump different is that the data transfer does not require near-field-communication, or NFC, which is usually required in phones we know today.
“There are two parts to Bump: the app that runs on your device and a smart matching algorithm that runs on our servers in the cloud,” the company explains. “The app on your phone uses your phone’s sensors to literally ‘feel’ the bump, and sends the information it collects to the cloud. The algorithm matches the bump it receives from the phone and ‘pairs’ the phones from which it received the same data. It then shares the information it received only with the two phones that the smart algorithm paired.”
Good? We'll see. Sounds revolutionary if we don't forget to point out that all data will go through Google servers.
