Skinput makes your arm the interface
Posted 11 May 2010 at 10:25 by Ben Richards
Category: News
Tags: sick of small buttons, Skinput
Have you ever struggled with a small mobiles keypad or predictive text messaging?
Well with the new system Skinput you can turn a portion of your arm or hand into a keyboard.
Source: Skinput turns your arm into a touchscreen
Finding the keypad on your cellphone or music player a bit cramped? Maybe your forearm could be more accommodating. It could become part of a skin-based interface that effectively turns your body into a touchscreen.
Called Skinput, the system is a marriage of two technologies: the ability to detect the ultralow-frequency sound produced by tapping the skin with a finger, and the microchip-sized “pico” projectors now found in some cellphones.
The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user’s forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.
But how does the system know which icon, button or finger you tapped? Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab …
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