LiveDrop allows you to send a file from one smartphone to another wirelessly without Bluetooth or WiFi, and it also works on computers with Windows and Linux. Very useful and what’s more, hackers cannot intercept anything.
When I visited CES in Las Vegas, I saw many new and remarkable products and services, such as transparent microLED screens, the Holobox and the Asus Zenbook Duo 2024, a laptop with two screens. Eindhoven’s LiveDrop also showed something remarkable with sending offline files between smartphones.
LiveDrop send offline files between smartphones
At the Dutch pavilion at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas in early January, Prince Constantijn of Orange was the first to receive a file completely offline on his phone. He regularly attends major events as a representative of tech companies and by scanning a special moving digital code he received a file completely offline on his phone. It is notable that this LiveDrop technology works wirelessly and without WiFi and Bluetooth. Very handy for smartphones, since you certainly don’t use cables or USB sticks to transfer files.
LiveDrop
Over the past 3 years, Livedrop has been working on the development of an innovative and patented technology that makes it possible to continue communicating when no internet is available or when the user does not want to use an online connection. This one-way method of data transfer is very secure, as it is impossible to inject the sender’s device with malware during the data transfer.
LiveDrop technology allows arbitrary files, such as photos, PDFs and Office documents, to be displayed in the form of an advanced data matrix that
resembles the well-known QR code. This data matrix can then be scanned by the recipient, whether it is an iOS or Android phone, and the technology ensures
that the original file is then available to the recipient. This enables error-free file sharing, without a so-called handshake between sender and
recipient. The technology also works on Windows and Linux and is currently being tested in healthcare through a pilot with the Jeroen Bosch Hospital and
healthcare organization Vivent.
LiveDrop app
At CES, LiveDrop launched the LiveDrop Offline Sharing app for iOS and Android. The first version can send files up to 150 kb and receiving a file takes only a few seconds. The free LiveDrop Offline Sharing app can be installed via the app stores.
