SKINPUT
My geek heart flutters at anything remotely Gibsonesque. The Skinput is a device which uses a Pico Projector to beam graphics onto a user’s palm and forearm (belly?) and creates a touchscreen computer interface.
While this seems more like a gimmick at the moment, I’m imagining some pretty interesting developments in the future. Think about ART. HEALTH. ROBOTS. yesss.
“The device, built as a collaboration between researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft, uses the different sounds emitted when we tap various parts of our skin (AKA acoustic patterns) to figure out what icon, menu, or key is tapped. Skinput contains five piezoelectric cantilevers to detect sound frequencies and respond to different “skin buttons”. The system is surprisingly on target. It can detect 5 skin locations with 95.5% accuracy–about the same as many actual touchscreen devices.”
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