Mar 04, 2010
Skinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreen
Via New Scientist via Stefano Besana
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab have developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that effectively turns your body surface into both screen and input device.
Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.
The technology behind Skinput is described in this paper the group will present in April at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Atlanta.
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