Skinput turns your arm into a touchscreen

A skin-based interface from Microsoft Research effectively turns your body into a touchscreen.

Sound creepy? Called Skinput, the system is a marriage of two technologies: the ability to detect the ultralow-frequency sound produced by tapping the skin with a finger, and the microchip-sized "pico" projectors now found in some cellphones.

Read full article in New Scientist.

emily | 12:42 PM | Technology |
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