MawMaw
03-09-2010, 01:59 PM
Hmmmm, what do you think of this?
http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/
Skinput turns your hand into a touchscreen and your fingers into a keypad
By Jeff Salton
March 4, 2010
http://www.gizmag.com/pictures/hero/skinput-0.jpg (http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/picture/111827/)
Skinput gives you computer functionality literally at your fingertips
Image Gallery (http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/gallery/) (8 images)
Always thought your skin was more than just a thing to stop your insides falling out? Well, you were right. Chris Harrison has developed Skinput, a way in which your skin can become a touch screen device or your fingers buttons on a MP3 controller. Harrison says that as electronics get smaller and smaller they have become more adaptable to being worn on our bodies, but the monitor and keypad/keyboard still have to be big enough for us to operate the equipment. This can defeat the purpose of small devices but with the clever acoustics and impact sensing software, Harrison and his team can give your skin the same functionality as a keypad. Add a pico projector attached to an arm band, and your wrist becomes a touch screen.
A beauty of this type of functionality is our ability to “operate” our body without the need to use our eyes i.e. we can snap our fingers, touch the tip of our nose or pull our ear without having to look. It’s called proprioception.
http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/
Skinput turns your hand into a touchscreen and your fingers into a keypad
By Jeff Salton
March 4, 2010
http://www.gizmag.com/pictures/hero/skinput-0.jpg (http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/picture/111827/)
Skinput gives you computer functionality literally at your fingertips
Image Gallery (http://www.gizmag.com/skinput-body-touchscreen-keypad/14408/gallery/) (8 images)
Always thought your skin was more than just a thing to stop your insides falling out? Well, you were right. Chris Harrison has developed Skinput, a way in which your skin can become a touch screen device or your fingers buttons on a MP3 controller. Harrison says that as electronics get smaller and smaller they have become more adaptable to being worn on our bodies, but the monitor and keypad/keyboard still have to be big enough for us to operate the equipment. This can defeat the purpose of small devices but with the clever acoustics and impact sensing software, Harrison and his team can give your skin the same functionality as a keypad. Add a pico projector attached to an arm band, and your wrist becomes a touch screen.
A beauty of this type of functionality is our ability to “operate” our body without the need to use our eyes i.e. we can snap our fingers, touch the tip of our nose or pull our ear without having to look. It’s called proprioception.