Turning yourself into a Remote Control

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Lost your Remote Control¡ Don't worry, you can always use your hand.. Skinput turns your skin into a touch screen. We are so close to live the lives of WALL-E ( The Disney Movie ) Humans, just thrown away in our chairs with our brand new  implanted chip in our brain to move around life with just a thought, I don't know about you but I love the way my keyboard sounds as I type every key, But lets take a look at this new technology, which was created by Desney Tan and Dan Morris from Microsoft research and Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University, The name: skinput which uses body acoustics to turn your skin into an interactive touch screen. The unusual interface is a Bluetooth enabled device that allows you to use the surface of your skin to control your gadgets. The device works via an armband which contains a small projector that beams the relevant interface onto your hand or forearm. Skinput uses a series of sensors to track where a user taps on his arm. Tapping on different … [Read more...]