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"Skinput" Turns Your Body Into Your I/O
kkleiner writes "Skinput is a system from Carnegie Mellon's Chris Harrison that monitors acoustic signals on your arm to translate gestures and taps into input commands. Just by touching different points on your arm, hand, or fingers 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 several video demonstrations."
This is old news. I've been able to lower the volume of devices by sticking my fingers in my ears for ages now.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
So what happens when you, um, touch yourself? Is that the web accelerator to open porn?
Good God, Vinge is a genius!!
Keyword: rf
This is one of those times I wish the mod system rewarded 'yo mama' jokes.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Best excuse for getting a girl geek to touch your "junk" evah!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Buffer overrun. You have submitted too many commands at one time. Please try again.
"Honey, what are you doing in there?"
"Uh, nothing. Just trying something out."
I will shred my adversaries. Pull their eyes out just enough to turn them towards their mewing, mutilated faces. Illyria
so I bump my arm, crank up my mp3 player full blast and hang up on my boss all at once
do you think you can make an attachment to kick me in the balls too?
The first Skinput system bought and turned into an abominable online porn product in 3, 2, 1...
Seriously? No time for the old in-out, love, I'm just here to read the meter.
Take a dollar, divide it by 100, take two and call me in the morning.
"Skinput is a system from Carnegie Mellon's Chris Harrison that monitors acoustic signals on your penis to translate gestures and taps into input commands. Just by touching different points on your penis, balls, or taint you can tell your portable device to change volume, answer a call, or turn itself on. Even better, Harrison can couple Skinput with a pico projector so that you can see a graphic interface on your penis 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 several NSFW video demonstrations."
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
My first question is what happens when you brush against someone in a crowded place or bump your arm against an inanimate object?
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
We can all be as cool as this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWMXTqS124
Coaches and players have been issuing signals and commands by touching different parts of their body for as long as I can remember.
Nobody can use any sort of touch interface but the iphone! Patent infringement lawsuit from Apple lawyers inbound in 3...2...1...
let me show you how to compile the Linux kernel on your portable device. ;)
I wonder if there will be a truth detector app.
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.
Something like this. :)
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
That was already done by David Byrne in the Once in a Lifetime Video at 3:53.
frightens me a bit.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
So what happens if you were to re enact some of Michael Jackson's music videos? I could guess but what fun would that be!
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
Mommy- why is the antenna on that man's car going up and down?
Please stop mucking up our present. I'm still getting used to the idea of a laptop.
I noticed this story on Endgadget a few days ago, and they mentioned Microsoft in the blurb. But I don't really see that connection in the video, or in this article. So did Microsoft fund this?
Just by touching different points on your arm, hand, or fingers you can tell your portable device to change volume, answer a call, or turn itself off.
Teenagers texting will look like a first base coach on crack.
So when I install this on my assembly line workers as a "communication device", I will also get the benefit of knowing exactly what they are doing (or not doing) at any time as well? Bonus!
You mean that we can finally put volume controls or mute buttons on women? Sign me up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
and if you think that's an unfair pornographic twist on this completely serious subject, then i would like to say
1. what the heck did you expect with it called "skinput"?
2. maybe having fleshy contact with our computers IS sexual
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Soon we'll all have omni-tools?
Another case of life imitating Animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBOQcQO0IFI&feature=related
They must have been watching this.
I can see it now, you can have your account debited by a certain amount when a pickpocket goes to get your virtual wallet, and his virtual wallet can be updated with the theft in real time. Awsome!
And for an extra charge you can send an alert to law enforcement about the time and GPS coordinates of the crime, and link to sky cams in the vacinity to start the case documentation folder.
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