photoxelsApple may have popularized the touch screen interface (others did it before but didn’t care enough to — or couldn’t — make it work just right), but Microsoft, with some help from researchers from Carnegie-Mellon University, wants to make your body the ultimate touch screen.
The new technology, dubbed “Skinput,” uses an armband that projects a touch screen with large tabs and buttons onto your forearm and hand. Each tap on your forearm produces distinct acoustic signals that are generated as your flesh ripples and your bones vibrate. Skinput’s software “listens” to each tap and recognizes its position on the “screen.” In the video, a user plays a game of Tetris using the fingers as a control pad and control an audio player by tapping on the hand.
It may once again take Apple’s designers to make this interface as intuitive as possible, say by snapping your fingers, clapping your hands, making a slashing gesture across your neck, slapping the palm on your hand to your forehead, or dial your cellphone just by tapping the numbers on your fingers. Anything else will just results in bruised body parts.
Read the article at: Toronto Star.
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