Ever felt stuck with occupied, covered or dirty hands while wanting to control your favorite devices? Situations like -  

• Reading a recipe while cooking with hands deep in dough  
• Getting distracted while driving due to your phone 
• Changing the music while biking 

Meet Bixi, the first ultra-portable companion that senses your in-air hand gestures and commands the devices you wish to control. 

Bixi commands smartphone Apps (Spotify, iBooks, Youtube, etc), LifX bulbs, Bose Soundtouch Speakers, GoPro, tablets and other Internet of Things devices, allowing users to keep interacting with their smart objects without putting their current activity on pause..

 

 

Bixi tracks your natural, intuitive hand gestures, processing the movement into meaningful action that is sent wirelessly to the device being controlled. 

Just wave your hand and let the Magic happen!

 

 

You can control multiple actions of two apps or devices at the same time with Bixi. For example, you can be on your bike with Bixi on ‘Music’ & ’GoPro’ profiles and control both your songs and your GoPro with only gestures. Other such examples are:

• Music & Lights control (Home)  
• Reading & door-lock control (home)  
• GoPro & Music control (on bike)  
• Phone/SMS & Music control(In car)

 

 

Fiddling with electronic devices on the road creates visual and cognitive distractions. With Bixi, you can drive safely and control your Music, Calls, Navigation, SMS, etc. without even looking at your phone. 

Control your GoPro from the handlebar of your bike and get status notifications at a glance. In early 2017, you can get turn-by-turn GPS navigation directions with the LEDs on Bixi while riding a bike.

 

 

 

Some of the few devices Bixi can work with -

Bixi App integrates IFTTT applet feature allowing you to control numerous devices on IFTTT. Bixi IFTTT Channel is planned to go live during the course of the campaign.

Live Demo: Control your Music Apps or Bose Internet speakers

 

 

Bixi works via Bluetooth Low Energy protocol and the Bixi App connects Bixi to other devices based on Wi-Fi or other protocols.  

Bixi can detect hand movements up to 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) in front of itself.

You can control two devices or Apps at the same time. Simply choose them in the Bixi App, connect Bixi to your iOS or Android mobile phone and use the Bixi app to set up the device profiles you wish to use Bixi for.  

 

 

  

While voice control works, it is not without its limitations: 

• Often requires a continuous internet connection
• Often limited by language & accent constraints 
• Not immune to loud music & background noises 
• Most importantly, not secure. (Anyone can activate and accidentally/intentionally control your home including someone talking on TV!)

 

 

 

Our Journey so far....

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

   

Have your own neat idea for using Bixi? Make your own custom profile for any compatible device, or develop new ones with Bixi APIs. Any good product needs passionate developers like you to take it to greatness. We've built Bixi to make gesture recognition usable by everyone in their daily lives, not just by geeks.  

Bixi possesses nearly endless possibilities waiting to be unlocked only by your imagination. Our SDK for Bixi will be out soon. Meanwhile, you can start customizing Bixi with your applications via our IFTTT channel

Here are some ideas for what you can develop with Bixi:

• Put 2 Bixis together and make your own In-Air percussion instrument (MIDI)
•  Add Bixi to your existing in-Car HUD App to allow drivers to navigate it with no distraction.
• Develop a new Game App around Bixi or make your existing Game compatible with Bixi (Temple Run is even more engaging with Bixi.)
• Make Bixi a controller for your Virtual Reality headset

• Bixi is noted among ABI Research's 2016 'HOT TECH INNOVATORS' list. 
• Consecutively in 2015 & 2016, Bluemint Labs has been selected as one of the top 28 tech startups in France & with official 'La French Tech' label. 
• One of the winners of Samsung-Legrand Hackathon where Bixi controlled Legrand windows, lights & sockets via Samsung’s Artik Cloud. 
• Grant award from BPIFrance. 
 

Did you know that "bixi" is the name of a Chinese Mythological turtle? Like a turtle, Bixi is compact, sturdy and has a hexagonal shape. 

Because Bixi is much more than a gadget, able to help you take full power of your connected life, we really wanted a design that gives Bixi, the look of a lovable companion. 

A turtle is said to be an intelligent and wise character, and Bixi follows this path by being the only ultra-portable solution that achieves complete gesture processing locally in the device.

 

ST is among the World leaders in low-power micro-controllers and sensors. Bluemint Labs is hosted by ST, Grenoble, France

A world leader in glass is protecting Bixi's Gesture sensing from scratches and falls with one of its best Gorilla® Glass 4.  

Bixi was selected to the 2016 HPE Milkshake Valley Startup acceleration program. 

One of the biggest and most renowned electronics device manufacturers in the world, Flextronics is currently working with us to setup the production line.