"Skinput" Turns Your Body Into Your I/O

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 4, 2010 @05:49AM from the unintended-consequences-abound dept.

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."

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Sigh by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2010-03-04 05:52 · Score: 1, Interesting

This is one of those times I wish the mod system rewarded 'yo mama' jokes.

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Awesome by copponex · 2010-03-04 06:01 · Score: 2, Interesting

We can all be as cool as this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWMXTqS124
Re:I don't know about that... by frikazoyd · 2010-03-04 06:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

The article notes that the accuracy of input origin is within 95%. So casual bumps shouldn't work, considering the input is in the inside of your arm. Hand input is trickier of course, but maybe you can set the sensitivity pretty low, so casual taps wouldn't work?