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2nd March 2010

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Skinput, the Touch-Interface For Your Skin, Brings a Whole Nother Meaning to Touch Typing While resistive touchscreens are being phased out in favor of capacitive screens,Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are working together on touchscreens for your body, called Skinput. Sure, you could just get one of those laser keyboards and project it onto your arm, but Skinput actually recognizes which part of your body you’ve tapped, based on the sound that’s made on either the skin, muscle or skeleton. The wearer must strap on an armband containing piezoelectric cantilevers, or sensors that measure pressure, acceleration and force, with a pico projector similar to what’s found in phones beaming the interface onto the skin…..

Skinput, the Touch-Interface For Your Skin, Brings a Whole Nother Meaning to Touch Typing

While resistive touchscreens are being phased out in favor of capacitive screens,Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are working together on touchscreens for your body, called Skinput.

Sure, you could just get one of those laser keyboards and project it onto your arm, but Skinput actually recognizes which part of your body you’ve tapped, based on the sound that’s made on either the skin, muscle or skeleton. The wearer must strap on an armband containing piezoelectric cantilevers, or sensors that measure pressure, acceleration and force, with a pico projector similar to what’s found in phones beaming the interface onto the skin…..