Skinput: Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen

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01 Mar 2010, 6:49 pm

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft made a system, called Skinput, that can turn your hand or arm into a touchscreen:
NewScientist - Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen

Interesting, I think.


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01 Mar 2010, 8:09 pm

This is cool.

Could create a whole new range of accidental errors, though. The next time some guy tries to stroke my arm sexily, he might end up dialing my phone. :lol:



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02 Mar 2010, 2:23 am

it's just the thought of using your armpit as the 'escape' key...;)


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02 Mar 2010, 4:34 am

Surely this will just increase the fear of "X colour screen of death"?