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Monday 9 May 2016

Use Your Arm as a Smart Watch Touch Pad

Comment: And the gadget-obsessed believers in "SMART society" will no doubt love this one... The push to wear our technology continues. 

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MIT Tech Review

Rather than playing games like Angry Birds by swiping your finger across a touch screen, you may someday be able to do so by swiping your finger across your arm.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are making this possible through a project called SkinTrack. You’d wear a ring on your index finger that emits an electrical signal that can be picked up by an electrode-laden smart watch on your other arm. A paper on it will be presented next week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s computer-human interaction conference in San Jose, California.

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