“Skinput” Could Bring About The Demise Of Certain Peripherals

Author: Team NWS | Posted: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Filed In: Technology
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Introducing “Skinput”, a conceptual technology that reads and responds to finger taps to that of a user’s epidermis. Currently under development from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft, the user must wear a specialized armband with “piezoelectric cantilevers, or sensors that measure pressure, acceleration and force”. Skinput also utilizes a pico-projector to create images like menus on the user’s arm (above), or to even play Tetris which you can see in the live footage below…

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Why does the narrator sound like a robot?

Other than that… pretty dope

[...] “Skinput” Could Bring About The Demise Of Certain Peripherals [...]

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