"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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Old News by camperdave · 2010-03-04 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

This is old news. I've been able to lower the volume of devices by sticking my fingers in my ears for ages now.

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1. Re:Old News by padrepio · 2010-03-04 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes but with Skinput, I would use my wife's keyboard and dual display more often.
sounds awesome by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-04 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

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?