Skinput - a new input concept uses pico-projected and your body

Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are working together on touchscreens for your body, called Skinput. The idea is to combine pico-projectors that project on your skin with special armband containing piezoelectric cantilevers - sensors that can measure pressure, acceleration and force - which know which part of your body was pressed based on the sound it made (on the skin, muscle or skeleton).

Skinput projected image on skin photo

This is all rather weird and cool - it can be used for gaming, or text inputting for your mobile phone. Check out this interesting video:




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