Turn Your Body Into Your I/O with Skinput (video). by Aaron Saenz
Electronic devices are getting smaller, and so are their interfaces. If you’ve ever had problems typing on your mobile, or changing a song on your iPod while jogging, Chris Harrison has the answer. His Skinput prototype is a system that monitors acoustic signals on your arm to translate gestures and taps into input commands. Just by touching different points on your limb you can tell your portable device to change volume, answer a call, or turn itself off. Even better, Harrison can couple Skinput with a pico projector so that you can see a graphic interface on your arm and use the acoustic signals to control it. The project is set to be presented at this year’s SIGCHI conference in April, but you can check it out now in the video below. Skip past 1:00 to avoid the intro, but make sure to catch the Tetris game demo at 1:19, and the cool pico projector interface starting at 2:05. http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/04/turn-your-body-into-your-io-with-skinput-video/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
